Awards

2006 International Artists fellowship programme to Antarctica, jointly sponsored by the British Antarctic Survey and the Arts Council.

2005 Joint winner of the International Bombay Sapphire Prize. ‘Roker Breakfast’ short film made with Ruth Dupre and Louise Gilbert Scott at the National Glass Centre, Sunderland.

2005 Arts Council Individual award for SciArt project to be exhibited in 2007 in the Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth.

2004 Arts Council Individual award

2002 Scholarship to Pilchuck Glass School, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.

Publications

an magazine, Good Practice Cover page, Nov 2006

Provider 2 Alchemical 2006

The Herald Magazine, Life Lines, Feb 2006

an magazine, Dec 2005

Crafts magazine, issue197, Nov/Dec 2005

Icon magazine, issue 30, Dec 2005

Living etc, Dec 2005

New Glass May 2004. Selected internationally for New Glass Review 25

New Glass, winter 2003 (4/03)

The World of Interiors, June 2003

Contemporary Glass Society, Glass Network Issue 9

Education

2001-July 2003 Royal College of Art, London M.A.Glass

June-July 2002 Pilchuck Glass School, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.

1999-2001 The City Lit. Bolt Court, London H.E. Diploma (fine art ceramics) with distinction.

1994-1996 University of Northumbria, Newcastle Certificate in Fine Art Studies.

1984-1985 Landcatch U.K. Ltd, Argyll, Scotland, Salmon farm husbandry

1980-1983 University of Stirling, Scotland B.Sc. Biology

Teaching

June 2005 Central St Martins College of Art and Design, London. Visiting lecturer on Architectural glass diploma course.

2004 University of Sunderland, Visiting lecturer on Ceramics and Glass BA and MA course.