ABOUT ME
I am a writer and artist. I was born in Salford and spent my youth lurking around the westerly fringes of Manchester. For a long time I supported a sculpture habit with a string of jobs including building opera sets, working in a bronze foundry and teaching art students. Writing was always there in the background, but a few years ago it took over. My short stories have been published in various anthologies and magazines, and have been shortlisted for a number of competitions. I also write non-fiction which, like my art work, explores the themes of landscape and memory. My non-fiction work has appeared in several journals and magazines.
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COMPETITIONS & AWARDS
2019
The Bridport Prize - shortlisted
The Fish Short Story Prize - longlisted
2017
Shorltisted for the Bridgman Studio Award
2016
Fiction Desk Newcomer Award – shortlisted
Short Fiction Journal Short Story Award - shortlisted
2015
The Shelagh Delaney Short Story Competition - shorltisted
The Wells Literary Festival Short Story Competition – shortlisted
The Yeovil Literary Prize (Writing Without Restrictions) - shortlisted
2014
The Hilary Mantel International Short Story Competition – longlisted
The Fish Short Memoir Prize – shortlisted
The Kate Betts Memorial Prize - University of Chichester
2013
The Lightship One Page Story Competition - shortlisted
The Cinnamon Short Story Comp – shortlisted
The Bath Short Story Prize – longlisted
2012
The Sentinel Short Story Competition - highly commended
The Earlyworks Short Story Comp - shortlisted
2011
The Willesden Herald Short Story Competition - shortlisted
2010
Unbound Press Flash Fiction - shortlisted
2009
Earlworks Short Story Competition - first prize
2007
Fish One Page Story prize – shortlisted
2002
Ted Roocroft Young Artist Award
2000
Manchester Academy of Fine Art – First Prize
Royal Society of British Sculptors Bursary Award
1999
The Keith Godwin Sculpture Award (Manchester Academy of Fine Arts)
EXHIBITIONS
2014
'In Here Out There', Canterbury Cathedral
2010
Sydney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury - solo show
Stark Fine Art, Canterbury
MAFA group show - Manchester Cathedral
2008
‘Life and Liberty’ - Westbourne Grove ArtSpace, London
‘Sculptures’, solo exhibition - 20/21 Art Centre, Scunthorpe
2006
‘Finis Gloria Mundi’, solo exhibition, Eastbridge Hospital Museum, Canterbury
‘Drawn To Ruin’, Beaney Institute,Canterbury
2005
‘Against The Light’, Gallery 47, London
‘Stations of The Cross’, St. Mary’s Old Church, Stoke Newington, London
'To and From Sculpture', Metropol Gallery, Folkestone
'Sculpture at Canterbury', Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury
2003
Group Show, The Manchester Art Gallery
Group Show, Royal British Sculptors Gallery, London
Manchester Academy of Fine Art, Bury City Gallery
2000
Group Show, Portico Gallery, Manchester
CDAK, International Des. Exhib., Korean Institute of Industrial Des.,Seoul
1999
'Reliquaries', Trinity Gallery, Tunbridge Wells, solo show
1998
'The Vauxhall Gardens' Norwich Gallery, Norfolk
'Peoples Sculpture Show 2', Rochester Art Gallery
'Artists in Arms', Cardiff, Edinburgh, London
1996
'Conflict' Coventry Gallery, London