Recent Exhibitions, Competitions, Courses, Activities.

December 2005 ‘Artspace at Christmas’ Leicester City Gallery
October 2005 ‘Identita Inglesi’ L. Lotto, Mirano, Venice
August 2005 ‘Artspace at the Mill’ exhibition, Holywell Mill, Ashby de la Zouch
June – July 2005 ‘A Gallery of Faces’ solo exhibition, Melton Mowbray Library Art Gallery
Spring 2005 ArtSpace exhibition ‘Open Space’, Loughborough Museum
2004 – 2005 ‘Behind the Scenes at the Museum’ Leics writers’ workshops
Summer 2004 ArtSpace exhibition ‘I Spy’ Generator Gallery, Loughborough
Summer 2003 ArtSpace exhibitions ‘Identity’ & ‘Difference’, Loughborough
Summer 2002 ArtSpace exhibitions ‘Deceive’ & ‘Reveal’, Loughborough
Summer 2001 ArtSpace exhibition ‘BIG’, Generator Gallery, Loughborough
2001 -2004 Committee member of Artspace sharing responsibility for fund raising
Sept 2001 Charnwood Mini Works, 2 Haiku commended.
Sept 2000 ArtSpace exhibition ‘Personal Journeys’ Loughborough Museum.
June 2000 ArtSpace exhibition ‘On the Threshold’ Generator Gallery, Loughborough
June 2000 Leicester Open Poetry Competition. Shortlisted.
May 2000 Charnwood Mini-works Competition. Commended.
April 2000 Course for published poets, Arvon Foundation, Devon.
March 2000 East Midlands Arts ‘Film Lab’ with Josephine Dunn
Feb 2000 ‘The Abolition of Green’ published in The Coffee House, Issue 3
Autumn 1999 E,Midlands Arts ‘Island Voices’ Playwriting workshops -Arni Ibsen.
1992 -2005 Attended creative writing courses Quest House, Loughborough.
1968-1990 Pentland Art Club, Edinburgh. Exhibitor in annual exhibitions.
1976-1984 Exhibited in group exhibitions in West Yorkshire.
1986-1990 Secretary/Treasurer, Friends of the Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh.

Employment and Education

1986-1996 Interviewer for Social Survey Division, Office of National Statistics.
1976-1984 Part-time tutor in Further Education - drawing, painting, printmaking, at Batley College of Art; Bradford College of Art; Jacob Kramer College, Leeds; H.M.Prison, Rudgate, Wetherby; Allerton Grange FE Centre, Leeds.
1976-1984 Member, Advisory Board, Jacob Kramer College, Leeds.
1972-1976 Leeds Polytechnic, Department of Fine Art; BA (Hons)
1971-1972 Foundation Course, Jacob Kramer College, Leeds.
1962-1972 Raising a family.
1959-1962 Various teaching posts, secondary and primary.
1958-1959 Department of Education, Oxford; Diploma in Education.
1955-1958 Newnham College, Cambridge; MA Geography.
1941-1955 Allerton High School, Leeds.