Curriculum Vitae

Born 1968, Clacton On Sea, Essex.

Creative Arts Fellow, Wolfson College and lifetime member of the University of Oxford.

Education

1987-1988-Buckinghamshire College of Higher Education
1989-1992– Staffordshire University
2009-2012-Creative Arts Fellow at Wolfson College
2009-present day- Member of University of Oxford.

Selected Public Art/Talks/Installations/Symposia and Performances

2019-22- Empty House Studies Performances, Film Documentation of Performative Actions with music by Professor Roger Redgate (Violin/electronics) and Professor Matt Wright (Turntables)
2020-22- “Gestures”/“All Those You Have Loved” Film Documentation of Collaborative Performance with Singers Maggie Nichols, Portia Winters, Dancer and Artist Lavinia Cascone and Sound Artist Dr Emmanuel Spinelli.
2021- “I am Nature”. A Film Collaboration with Cleveland Watkiss and Lavinia Cascone.
2016/17 “Visual Music Salons” With Cindy Keefer Director of Centre of Visual Music. London and Oxford.
2016-“Correspondence” -Collaboration with Cleveland Watkiss, House of St Barnabas- Frieze London.
2016/17- Plein Air. Short Film Collaboration with composer Mira Calix
2016– Correspondences- Newcastle University. Collaboration with Roger Redgate (Composer) and Dr Emmanuel Spinelli. Newcastle University.
2015-Performance Painting-Sequences Festival, Reykjavik, Iceland and contribution to Carolee Schneemann Retrospective w Alfredo Cramerotti /Hans Ulrich Obrist.
2011-Performance Painting- South Bank Centre. Collaborative performance with Susanna Recchia, Emmanuel Spinelli and Roger Redgate.
2011-Intervention and Performance Painting. Modern Art Oxford.
2011-Collaborative Performances. –University of Oxford.
2010-12– Public Lectures/Talks on Cross Sensory Art and talks with Michael Stanley, Siobhan Davies, Richard Cork, Centre for Visual Music and Haroon Mirza
2010– Performances Verbier, Switzerland Festival.
2010 – Correspondence. Collaboration with Roger Redgate, Wolfson College, Oxford University
2009– Correspondence. Oxford. Collaborative performance with Singer and writer Amit Chaudhuri
2008– Seeing Messiaen-Westminster Cathedral- Éclairs sur l’au dela- Painting Performance with Royal Academy of Music Orchestra conducted by Thierry Fischer.
2008– Synaesthesia- Attenborough Centre, Leicester. Talk and Performance with Professor Jamie Ward and Coull Quartet.
2008– Seeing Music- Romsey Abbey- Painting performance and Talk.
2008- Seeing Messiaen. -Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral- Painting Performance with Dame Gillian Weir.
2008– Illuminations- Leeds University- Painting performance and talk with Professor Peter Hill and exhibition.
2008– From the Canyon to the Stars- South Bank Festival- Live Performance at Royal Academy of Music with the Kreutzer Quartet.
2007- Eye Music-Sainsbury Centre Norwich-Live performance with the Allegri Quartet.
2007– Eye Music- Pallant House Gallery- Performance with the Coull Quartet and exhibition alongside Eye Music Exhibition.
2007– Dartington Summer Festival- Live Painting and Talk with pianist Helen Reid to music premieres by Celia McDowell and David Mathews.
2007– Westminster Cathedral –Live Painting to John Tavener’s Premiere “Beautiful Names”. (Exhibited at Eye Music show)
2006– BBC Radio3 – Special ‘Celebrity Guest’ “Private Passions”. Broadcast 9th July
2006– Art and the Senses. Performance painting with Coull String Quartet. Heston Blumenthall, Dr Charles Spence.
2006- Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club- Painting Performance with Gerard Presencer Quartet.
2006– Royal Academy of Music “Synaesthesia, Visual Art and Improvisation” with Musicians at the Academy and with Dame Gillian Weir and Neuroscientist Professor Vincent Walsh.
2005-Royal Academy of Music. London Painting Performance with Peter Sheppard Skaerved and Aaron Shoor.
2005-Lady Margaret Hall with Professor Peter Hill and Dame Gillian Weir. Talk, music and artwork.
2003– Music and the Mind Festival-Bloomsbury Theatre. Live on-Stage Painting with Pianist Helen Reid.
2002– Festival Hall, Southbank Centre. Seeing Music Hearing Colour, (Responses to Organ Music by Messiaen) collaboration with Professor Vincent Walsh.

Selected Group Gallery Exhibitions

2022- MUVI6 Universidad de Granada (Spain)
2021– Centre for Visual Music Artist of the Month.
2020– Centre for Visual Music
2019-Prometheus Institute, Kazan.
2017– Frieze Art Fair Regents Park, London.
2015-Sequences Real Time Art Reykjavik Festival
2006-8-Frost and Reed Duke Street. London
2009-12– University of Oxford.
2008– London Art Fair
2008– Verbier Music Festival- Performances/exhibitions/Workshops.
2007-08 Eye Music, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester/Sainsbury Centre Norwich.
2006– Science Oxford, University of Oxford. Art and the 5 Senses.
2004– Reading Museum and Art Gallery- (Photographs)
2002– Buckinghamshire Museum and Art Gallery

Artist in Residence / Educational Work

2009-12 Synaesthesia workshops, University of Oxford
2008 Verbier Music Festival-Performances and workshops.
2006/7 Synaesthesia Project. Highfield Unit, Warneford Hospital. Oxford.
2003-4 RH and Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra. Awarded large Youth Music Grant to work in Schools, Health Centres and Day Care centres in Oxford and London “Improvisation Through Colour”
2001-2-South Bank Centre. Royal Festival Hall, London
2006 Highfield Unit, Warneford Hospital. Oxford. (Workshops with Musicians on Graphic Scores and Music through colour with disturbed adolescents.
2006 Royal Academy of Music. Workshops and lectures with students on Synaesthesia and Improvisation.
2005 University of Newcastle. Lectures for Students
2004-5 West Oxford Primary School. Workshops on subject of Synaesthesia, Colour art and Music (Children ages 5-11.)
2003-4 Oxford Philomusica. Awarded large Youth Music Grant to work in Schools, Health Centres and Day Care centres “Improvisation Through Colour”
2004- Music Faculty (University of Oxford) Improvisation through Colour. With musicians from the Oxford Philomusica.
2002-3 Orchestra of St John’s Smith Square workshops on Composition and colour with musicians and Composer Cameron Sinclair (Children ages 5-8)
2003-4 City of London Orchestra (Workshops with sufferers of Aspergers Syndrome and Autism.)
2001-2-South Bank Centre. Royal Festival Hall, London
Working on Artwork and composition with composer Deirdre
Gribbin in schools in London.
1997/98– Reading Museum and Art Gallery-Residency and workshops working with objects from the collection. (Children ages 5-9)
1994-1996-Suffolk Rural Arts Fund, Eastern Arts, Suffolk
(Elderly & Infirm).
1992-4 United Bristol Healthcare Trust, Psychiatric Nurse with responsibility for artwork and music.
(Mentally ill ages 20-70).

Publications/Films

2015– Sequences V11
2013- Voces Imtimae- The String Quartet encounters with art.
2012- South Bank Treatise Performance- Haavard Helle.
2011- Performance Painting- Modern Art Oxford.
2009-Art and the 5 Senses. OUP
2009-Eye Music-Klee and all that Jazz.
2008– “Acrylic Variations” Film by Optic Nerve productions.
2007– “Moment in Time’ Autobiography- Optic Nerve.
2008- “The Times” The Man Who Heard In Colour. Jan 25^th 2008
2007- “Neural Conditions in Famous Artists.” Karger.
2007-“Financial Times”- Dartington Festival performance review.
2007– “The Times”- Dartington Festival review
2006– “The Observer” 9^th July 2006 “Private Passions” Radio Choice
2006 ‘Still Fugue’ Art Industry Review April 2006 Review on Synaesthesia, Improvisation and Visual Art.
2005 “Synaesthesia” Illustrations for Article by Professor Vincent Walsh/Dr Catherine Mulvenna- Current Biology. June issue.
2004- ‘Seeing Music-Hearing Colour’ Feature article by Dr Janet McKensey Studio International magazine.
2003- ‘Shades of Tone’ The Times’ January 2003 Review by Simon Tait
2002-3- C.D Covers for Dame Gillian Weir’s complete recordings of Messiaen. 6C.D’s
2002- Royal Festival Hall Programme
2002-Southbank Magazine
2002- ‘Art and Industry’ April 2002. Review by Simon Tait

Collections

Tate Gallery.
Reading Museum and Art Gallery.
St Hugh’s, College University of Oxford
National Healthcare Trust. John Radcliffe and Swindon Hospitals.
Economics Department, University of Oxford.
Linacre College, Oxford
Wolfson College, Oxford.
University College London
Private Collections.