Education
DeMontfort University BA(hons) Fine Art
North Warwickshire College Foundation Art and Design
TEFL (part one)
North Warwickshire College "A"level Art
John Cleveland College Spanish OCN level 3
North Warwickshire College Wordprocessing RSA II
North Warwickshire College Typewriting RSA I
Continued Professional Development.
Find Your Talent, 2009
Find Your Talent, 2010
Safeguarding Children and Vulnerable Adults, via Leicester College, 2010
Professional Bodies Registration
Creative Leicestershire
EMPAF
COMMISSIONS/WORKSHOPS
various past years;
Logo design for HARLEQUIN DANCE SCHOOL
"A" board with logo for HARLEQUIN DANCE SCHOOL
Logo used for video advertisement for HARLEQUIN DANCE SCHOOL
HARLEQUIN AND COLUMBINE painting commission for Dianne Grose Collection
"RYANS UNCLE AND AUNT" and "PORTRAIT OF RYAN" commissions for Mr.Phillip Hughes Irish collection
Repair of painting for HINCKLEY HOSPITAL
CHILDRENS LIFECAST (hands and face) WORKSHOP for BURBAGE COMMUNITY ARTS 2001
LIFE DRAWING/PAINTING WORKSHOPS FOR ALL AGE RANGES for BARELY ARTS (including organising exhibition of participants works)
2008
MOTIVATIONAL WORKSHOP for long term unemployed with WING PRODUCTION HOUSE 2008
GEORGE ELLIOT PANTO SOCIETY christmas pantomime (chorus/backstage) 2008
GRAFFITI WORKSHOPS half term in Leicester with PEDESTRIAN 2008
2009
PARTNERING V.A.L. weekly art sessions with select students of ELLESMERE COLLEGE, Leicester, first term of 2009
MOSAIC production and workshop event for 1st BRITTANIA SCOUTS, Burbage, Hinckley. 2009.
MURAL production and PAVEMENT ART event for BATTLING BROOK PRIMARY SCHOOL, Hinckley. 2009
MURAL with LGBT Youth Group, Leicester, 2009
ACTING. Small part in short film "SILVER BULL", playing the oldish man in the wax poachers coat with long staff. Click to view on YOUTUBE ;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVJFQT2EIcM
SUMMER ART CAMP, Rawlings Community College, Quorn, Leicestershire, July and August (2 weeks) 2009.
FIND YOUR TALENT "where next?". Two day event for primary and secondary aged children at The Peepul Centre
NATIONAL DRAWING DAY, "The (little) BIG DRAW" community participatory event, Hinckley Market, Leicestershire, October 10th, 2009
See NEWS page for links to video productions on YOUTUBE
2010
SATURDAY ARTS Barwell Community House January 2010 (ten weeks) with view to Youth Arts Award
SpArc Day 2010 Rawlings Community College, January 28. Marks to music to sculpture workshops (x3)
Painting and Monoprinting St.Leonards Swithland Primary School. Taster session for possible afterschool club. Key Stage 1 children
Cartooning . Wymeswold Primary School. Taster session for possible afterschool club.
World Community Arts Day, Rawlins Community College. Sculpture workshop.
Green Day, Shellthorpe Primary School. Creatiing sculpture with recycled products
Dance and Art, Ravenhurst Primary School, collaboration with Louise Katerega (Foot in Hand dance company).
Clay Portraiture Workshop with adults in conjunction with Hinckley Council. 2 days. Life model, Dianne Cotteril. Lunch was provided by Council. Venue thanks to Creative Hinckley in the Goddard Building.
National Drawing Day, "The Long BIG DRAW", community participatory event, Hinckley market, October 16th, thanks to Hinckley Council.
EXHIBITIONS
1997
Market Bosworth Open :
Hinckley Concordia Theatre, "Danceworks", solo
1998
Leic. Y Theatre, "A Mixed Bag", solo
1999
LUSAD "Do You Draw a Bit, Then?" duo:
Leic. Y Theatre, "Pas de Duex", solo :
Hinckley Library, "Dance Abstractions", solo:
Gregsons Solicitors Nottingham, "Untitled Window 1", solo
Hinckley Library, "Excerpts from the Dancing Adventures of Becky", solo
Buckenham Gallery, Southwold, "Looking for Mandys Place" group
2000
Olebra University, Sweden, "Looking for Mandy's Place" group
LUSAD, "Looking for Mandy's Place", group
Hinckley LIbrary, "Recent Figures", solo
2001
Vacant Shop, HInckley, group
Hinckley Golf Club, "Save the Gorilla Fund", group
Town and Country Festival open
Burbage Community Arts open
Hinckley LIbrary, "Nudes Upstairs", group (organiser, model co-ordinator and participant)
Ten-Two Gallery Hinckley, group
2002
Burbage Community Arts open
Jubilee Arts Hinckley , open (chairman of organising group and participator)
City Gallery Leic. "Barely Art" group (organiser and participant of show)
Ten-Two Gallery Hinckley, group
City Gallery Leic. "Poetic Fragmentation of Aesthetics" (arte del espanglish group) (organiser and participant)
2004
Ayuntamiento de Pegalajar open
Ayantamiento de EL PADUL open
Hinckley Concordia Theatre, New Hinckley Artists Society, group (chairman of NHAS and participant)
2006
Volunteer invigilator for DOT exhibition
Volunteer artist for DOT, Cardboard Leicester (part of fringe for British Art 6 Nottingham).
2007
Voluntary Action Leicester.
PARALELLOGRAM group show (DMU)
TEN-2 GALLERY group show (all works on canvass 20 x 20cm)
2008
The Art Space, 16 Pocklington Walk, Leicester. THE POTENTIAL FOR LOVE
Degree Show, DeMontfort University. ILLUSTRATIONS FOR UNWRITTEN TALES
ONE NIGHT STAND, at House To Home Furniture store, Belgrave Gate, Leicester
I-CANDY ART CENTRE, HastingsTRUTH AND OTHER MYTHS
LEICESTER CITY GALLERY OPEN "The Brown Shawl"
TEN-2 GALLERY OPEN "We Shall Go To The Market Today", Hinckley
2009
AUCTION @ KLA, Knighton Lane Studios, Leicester
The little BIG DRAW. Participatory arts event for National Drawing Day. Funded by Hinckley & Bosworth Borough Council , organised by ART-CELL and assisted on the day by Melissa Theobold BA(hons). Hinckley Market, Leicestershire.
Independant Arts Centre with KLA
Third annual TEA-PARTY at KLA studios
2010
VAUGHAN COLLEGE with KLA (paintings; ASCENSION and WITHIN/WITHOUT)
RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH CENTRE with KLA ("Banquet..........Hurrah!") 6 Paintings accepted into show!
CATMOSE GALLERY, Oakham. With KLA.
LCB DEPOT, Leicester . With KLA
2011
BRIXTON URBAN ART FAIR
2012
Hinckley Library. HINCKLEY THEMED OPEN , ("Loved Ones")
Exchange Bar
, Leicester. (with KLA)
Sumo Bar, Leicester. Charity outdoor art event exhibiting for one year. Curated by Bali Sangha-Jenkins
Fabrika, Leicester (with KLA)
New Walk Museum, Leicester (with KLA... 30th anniversary show)
10-2 Gallery, Hinckley Christmas Open Exhibition.
2013
Leicester Open 24;
Britains Got Artists...........top 50 works on show at UK-ARTS gallery, Halifax
WINDOWS-ON at Sumo Bar, Leicester (charity event for multiple sclerosis society) FIRST PRIZE
2014
Creation Fine Arts Gallery, solo show. Beverly, Yorkshire
Windows-on. Sumo Bar, Leicester
Cosmopolitan Carnival, group (KLA) show, Leicester.
Cank Street Gallery, Leicester,open exhibition
Methodist Church, Bishop Street, Leicester............World Mental Health .......group show.
2015
Leicester Open 26
Cank Street Gallery, Leicester, open exhibition.
Atkins Building, Reception. Solo. Dcember 2015/January 2016
2016
Cank Street Gallery, Leicester, open exhibition.
2017
Cank Street Gallery, Leicester, open exhibition. (Highly Commended, "African Woman", oil on canvas)
D.I.V.O.R.C.E an exhibition themed on Brexit with Julie Kilminster and Jane McFadden, Leicester Church.
2018
Cank Street Gallery, Leicester, open exhibition.
Leicester Open Variant Exhibition, Curve Theatre.
Leicester Open. New Walk Museum