CAREER PATH

2019   Inclusion in The International Encyclopedia Of Surrealism. Text by Dawn Ades and Michael Richardson, Volume ll  pages 301 - 305, Volume lll  page 414  + 3 images, Bloomsbury publishing

2017   Selected for the project How to Make an Archive Travel?  by Women's Art Library (WAL), Goldsmiths, University of London, led by Dr Ana-Maria Herman. Funded by Women's Art Library, Goldsmith's Research Development Funds (GIG) and Goldsmiths' Public Engagement Grants. 

2010   Residency and exhibition The Spaces of the Unconscious at the Freud Museum, London, linking Freud, Surrealism and my investigations into the unconscious. Funding:  Henry Moore Foundation & Norwich University College of the Arts. Curated by Krzysztof Fijalkowski. Catalogue, text by Michael  Richardson and Krzysztof Fijalkowski. Supporting conference The Spaces of the Unconscious and film premiere Surviving Life directed by Jan Svankmajer.

2009   Supporting a residency (Guy Girard) to explore automatism, exhibition Hearts & Bones at The School Creative Centre, Rye. With Guy Girard and Wedgwood Steventon.

2007 and 2005 Exhibitions at West Dean Estate, 5th and 4th International Symposiums on Surrealism, funded by AHRC Centre for the Study of Surrealism and its Legacies. Text by Roger Cardinal

2001   Selected and funded by KCC Arts & Libraries to take part in Animation & Video Workshop.

2000   Selected: one of four contemporary artists to make new work for the project Valley of Vision: Samuel Palmer & The Ancients Revisited, funded by KCC and SEArts. 

1999   Selected by SEArts to have work on AXIS National Database.

1998 Cross-Regional Grant to support two exhibitions in Prague, Vnitrni Kontinent/Inside Continent, (solo) and Svatokradez/Sacrilege (group) funded by South East Arts.

 

1987 moved to England from South Africa

 

1980 - 1982 Michael Pettit School of Art, Cape Town

1977 - 1979 Natal University, 7/10 credits. Major: English Literature 

1966 - 1969 Foundation and Fine Art Diploma, Natal College of Art (Natal College for Advanced Technical Education), Durban 

 

 

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

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2021    DREAMING THE FOUND, Farleys Gallery, Chiddingly, East Sussex

2016    DETOUR: CYCLISTS DISMOUNT Fundacion Eugenio Granell, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

2011    MAPPING MEMORY Easton Rooms, Rye Gallery, Rye

2010    THE SPACES OF THE UNCONSCIOUS Residency and Installation, Freud Museum,

            London, curated by Krzysztof Fijalkowski, supporting catalogue and symposium 

2007    RESPONSE (Hidden Myth)  Maidstone Library & Gallery, KCC Arts and Libraries

2006    MOSTLY MUD Trinity Arts Centre, Tunbridge Wells, Kent.

2005    THE CLARITY OF MUD 4th International Symposium on Surrealism, West Dean Estate

            AHRC Centre for the Study of Surrealism and its Legacies

2005    BENEATH THE TIDE Easton Rooms, Rye Art Gallery,Rye, Sussex

2001    DREAM GAME Rye Art Gallery, Rye

2000    DREAM LOGIC  Sevenoaks Library Gallery, Sevenoaks, Kent

1999    VNITNI KONTINENT - INSIDE CONTINENT Galerie Vysehrad, Prague, Czech Republic

1996    GAME 1 Trinity Arts Centre, Tunbridge Wells. Relaunch Programme with exhibition by Conroy

            Maddox and talk by Roger Cardinal

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

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2021    CERTAINTIES-NOTHING IS AS USUAL, and launch of publication JUSTA MOMENT! 

            Konnektor-Forum für Künste, Hannover 30451, curated by C Leunig and R Wichering

            THE INTERNATIONAL SURREALIST EXHIBITION OF COLLAGE 2021organised by 

            The Recordists, online exhibition www.thesecretroomgallery.com

2020    LOCKDOWN: work done during COVID 19, HAF, Hastings, curated by Lesley Barker

2019    EXPOSIÓN 100 AÑOS DE SURREALISM, Centro Cultural Espacio Matta, Chile,

            organised by Enrique de Santiago of Derame

            THE POLYMORPH BODYSHOP  The Bakery, Atlanta,Georgia and East Village Arts,

            Birmingham, Alabama, organised by Peculiar  Mormyrid                                                

            SURRÈALISTE en le DESSIN en 2019, Mooring Gallery, Saint Ouen, Paris also Maison

            André Breton, Saint-Cirq-Lapopie, organised by Paris Surrealist Group

            CHAOS IS MY FRIEND, HAF Hastings, curator Lesley Barker

2018    LE COLLAGE SURRÈALISTE EN 2018, Mooring Gallery, Rue des Roses, Saint-Ouen,

            Paris also Maison André Breton, Saint-Cirq-Lapopie, organized Paris Surrealist Group

            STAINS AND TRACES IV, curator Sally Meakins, also 2017, 2016, 2014. HAF Hastings

            LITTLE SHOP OF MAGIC 2, Spode Museum & Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, with W Steventon.

2017    SURREALIST MURMURATIONS, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, with J Welson & J  Richardson

            IN THE LIGHT OF SURREALISM II, HAF, Hastings, curated by Jo Welsh, also 2013

            THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF HOPE, Hope Beach, Isle of White, M Fluin & P Cowdell

            HOW TO MAKE AN ARCHIVE TRAVEL? Womens Art Library WAL, Goldsmiths University.

2016    AT THE LIGHT OF THE GLAZED CASTLE, CAE, Figueira da Foz, Portugal, organised by

            Debout Sur L'oeuf

2015    LITTLE SHOP OF MAGIC, Gallery 116, Stoke-on-Trent, Wedgwood Steventon

            ONCE UPON A TIME IN HASTINGS, 3 person exhibition, HAF, Hastings

2014    RECREATING MEMORY, Hastings Arts Forum, curated by Sally Meakins

            THE HUNT FOR THE OBJECT OF DESIRE, Galerie ESPACE, Montreal, Quebec, La Liason

            Surréliste á Montreal

2013    PERMA CULTURE with Styx publishers Swedish National Gallery Stockholm

            LEVITANDUM, 2 person exhibition with Patrick Hourihan, Gallery Arkitektvägen 44,Stockholm

            DOMESTIC DISTURBANCE, International Women’s Day The School Creative Centre,  

2012    FREE FOR ALL, automatism  Sevenoaks Kaleidoscope Gallery, Kent, curated by      

               Duncan Brannan Visual Arts Officer, Kent Arts & Culture Service

               OTHER AIR, The Group of Czech-Slovak Surrealists 1990-2011 Prague City Hall

            SURREALISM 2012: Toward The World of the 5th Sun, Cohen Gallery, Goggle

            Works  Centre for the Arts, Reading, Pennsylvania, USA, with Joseph Jablonski

2011    BETA Sevenoaks Kaleidoscope Gallery, Kent, curated by Duncan Brannan

2010    WOMEN IN SURREALISM, Museo de la Soliaridad, University of Chile, Santiago, Derame

2009    HEARTS AND BONES residency and exhibition The School Creative Centre, Rye with

            Guy Girard and Wedgwood Steventon

            EL UMBRAL SECRETO Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende organised by Dreame

            ILUMINACOES DESCONTINUAS  Convento de Sã José, Lagoa, Portugal, Debout Sur L'oeuf

2008    O REVERSO DO OLHAR  Casa Municipal da Cultura, Coimbra, Portugal, Debout Sur L'oeuf

            THE WORLD IS A TERRIBLE NATURAL HISTORY Pisek City Museum, Pisek, Czech     

            Republic, organised by The Group of Czech-Slovak Surrealists, Prague

            AS FAR AS MY LEGS CAN CARRY ME Terezin Memorial Museum, Czech Republic,

            organized and curated by The Group of Czech-Slovak Surrealists, Prague

2007    NARURAL SCIENCE: ART, SCIENCE & THE CLARITY OF MUD  5th International 

            Symposium on Surrealism, Sussex Barn Gallery, West Dean, curated by S-M Kusunoki

            POSTCARDS TO MARIO CESARINY Museum Municipal Prof.J.Vermelho, Estremoz,

            Portugal

2005    PROFANE REVELATION  Fundacion Granell, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

2003    ART OF THE IMAGINATION Cork Sreet , London. Also in 2002 and 1999.

2002    ÈTOILE AUX TROIS CRISTAUX Maison Communale d’ Evere, Brussels.

2000    ENGLISH SURREALISTS Kabinet Hendrik Beekman, Murrum, Netherlands.

            EVEIL PARADOXAL Biennale de Conches, Maison des Arts, France, Paris Surrealist Group

            LA PARENTÈ N’EST HÈRÈDITAIRE Ostraske Museum, Prague, Czech Republic

1999    SVATOKRADEZ (Sacrilege; the magical against the real)  Salmovsky Palace,

            Prague, curated by The Group of Czech–Slovak Surrealists

1998    98 FISH PUBLISHING PRIZE Triskal Gallery, Cork, Ireland

            MONMARTRE IN EUROPE Marie du XVIIIe, Monmartre, Paris

1997    CELEBRATING SCOTLAND-AFRICA  Society of Scottish Artists, Edinburgh

1996    HOURGLASS 10th ANNIVERSARY Espace UVA Paris, organised by Peter Wood, Hourglass

1995    DIE GALERIE, DIE KÙNSTLER, DAS ÙBERRASCHUNGESEL  Galerie 13, Hannover

            THE DISCERNING EYE  Mall Gallery, London. British Surrealism

            BRITISH SURREALISTS 1935-1995  England & Co, London Curated by Jane England

            CURIOUSER & CURIOUSER Espace UVA, Paris, organized by Peter Wood, Hourglass

            FANTASY 15 British women artists Women’s Artist Library, The  Cultural Foundation, Abu

            Dhabi, also The Woman’s Club, United Arab Emirates and Isis Gallery, UK

1994    EINBEINGES PFERD ENTLAUFEN  Galerie13, Hannover, curated by Rainer Wichering

1993    DER AMEISENGEL IN DER BLÙTENPRESSE Galerie 13, Hannover,  Rainer Wichering

            LE LABYRINTHE DES SONGES  3  person  exhibition with Peter Wood and Guy Girard,

            Espace UVA, Paris, organised by Hourglass

            LABYRINTH Museum Zielona Gora  also Poznan Zoologischer Garten (Poland), and Galerie 13

            Hannover, (Germany) curated by Rainer Wichering

1992    ART IN BOXES England & Co, London  + 20th Century British Arts Fair, London

            WEITLAUFIGE REICHWEITE  2 person exhibition , Galerie 13, Hannover, Rainer Wichering

            DECIPHRAGE ll  Galerie 13,  Hannover, Germany, curated by Rainer Wichering

1991    DISTANCE INTIME Galerie Neuf, Paris, curated by Peter Wood, Hourglass

        

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