Bio
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
Robert Fraser Gallery, Mayfair, London; Dean Clough Gallery, Halifax; The Whitaker Gallery and Museum, Rossendale; Bradford College of Art, Bradford; The RedHouse Gallery, Harrogate. The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle and The Ilkley Manor House Art Gallery and Museum, Ilkley.
MIXED SHOWS:
Arts Council Touring Exhibition to Edinburgh, Glasgow & Cardiff; Robert Frazer Gallery, London; Madam Tussauds, London; Barnsley Design Centre, Barnsley; Galerie 5, Geneva, Switzerland; Association of Illustrators Gallery, London; England & Co, London; Allgood Gallery, London; the Musee d’ Histoire Contemporaine, Paris; Brighton Art Gallery; The Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Tate Gallery, Liverpool; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna and the Whitney Museum of Art, New York.
LECTURER:
Hornsey College of Art/Middlesex University, Stafford College of Art, Bradford College of Art, Leeds Metropolitan University and Cleveland College of Art.
GUEST SPEAKER:
Royal College of Art, London; South Wales University, Australia; Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology; Swinburne University, Melbourne; NiA Institute, Delhi India; National College of Art & Design, Dublin; Ireland; Brighton Arts Festival, Brighton; Commonwealth Institute, London.
BBC TV program ‘Brass Tacks’ on Education; Tyne Tees TV ‘Northern Eye’ on Comics and BBC Breakfast programme. Consultant on Films Yellow Submarine and My Generation.
COMMISSIONS:
Murals for the homes of Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr; A mural for the British Pavilion in Montreal, Expo’67; The offices of Wolf Olins & Partners; The Central Office of Information, London; Admiralty House, London; Jones Lang La Salle, London; Eversheds, Manchester; CNCEP Banks, Paris; Hirsch Bedner, USA; Sheraton Ocean Grande Resort, Japan; Laing O’Rourke, London. and to paint a series of ceramic murals for Sheik Abdul Aziz-Zaidan’s palace in Al Karj.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS INCLUDE:
Royal College of Music Museum, London; Boston Museum of Fine Art, USA The Royal College of Surgeons, Glasgow; The V&A, London; The New York Met, USA; and The Dean Clough Galleries, Halifax.
PRIVATE COLLECTORS INCLUDE:
David Queensbury, Sir Paul McCartney, Sheikh Abdul Aziz Zaidan, David Bailey, Phyllis Rapp, Christen Ager Hanssen, Peter Gabriel and Tori Amos, Ringo Starr, Andrew Rosenfeld, Baron Alan Sugar and Hugh Grant.
The late – Henry Moore OM, Lord Snowdon, Sir Hugh Casson, Lord Paul Reilly, Reynor Banham, Mary Quant, Viscount Bangor, Lord Lew Grade. Dudley Moore, Lord Sidney Bernstein and Andrew Rosenfeld.
ARTICLES AND REVIEWS BY:
Paris Match, double page spread; Penrose Annual; Look, double page spread; Studio International, article by Jasia Reichardt; Domus, article by Ettore Sottsas Jnr; Design, front cover; New Society, article by Reyner Banham; Architectural Design, article by Jasia Reichardt; New Statesman, article by Robert Melville; Creative Review; Architects Journal, Architectural Review, Graphis, all National Newspapers, including articles by Francoise Jaquenod, Wallace Olins, Paul Grinke, and Exhibition Catalogue notes by Dr David Alan Mellor and Professor John Hyatt..
PUBLICATIONS:
‘Electrical Banana’ ISBN 978-88-6208-204-4
‘Sgt Pepper at Fifty’ ISBN 978-1-78558-444-2
‘The Art of Big O’ ISBN 978-1-63443-840-7