Biographical Details
2011-2016 Associate Lecturer, Fine Art, The Sheffield, Institute of Arts, Sheffield Hallam University
2008-2014 Faculty Member and Senior Tutor, The Prince’s Drawing School, London (Now The Royal Drawing School)
2001-03 The City and Guilds of London Art School, MA Fine Art - Painting
1996-97 The UCL Institute of Education (Art & Design Dept), University of London
1981-84 Sheffield Hallam University, BA (Hons) Fine Art
1980-81 Gloucestershire College of Art and Design (now the University of Gloucestershire)
Scholarships, Awards & Prizes
2011 ING Discerning Eye, Prizewinner
Invited by Brian Sewell (Chief Art Critic, London Evening Standard)
Past Exhibitions
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2022 Browse & Darby, London
2013 ‘Derivations and New Directions’, Browse & Darby, London
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2007, 2009-22 Gallery Artists, Browse & Darby, London
2006, 2008-22 Contemporary Gallery Artists, Browse & Darby, London
2006, 2008-21 Christmas Exhibition, Browse & Darby, London
2018 The British Art Fair, Saatchi Gallery (with Browse & Darby)
2010-18 London Art Fair (with Browse & Darby)
2016 ‘Recording Britain Now: Society’, The Electrician’s Gallery, Trinity Buoy Wharf, London (The Ruskin Prize in association with the V&A and touring
2016 ‘Recording Britain Now: Society ’, The New Art Gallery Walsall, (The Ruskin Prize in association with Arts Council England)
2015 Expo Chicago (with Browse & Darby)
2013 ‘Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Competition’, Kings Place Gallery, London
2011-12 Art Chicago (with Browse & Darby)
2011 ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London Prize Winner, Curated by Brian Sewell - Art Critic, London Evening Standard
2008 Threadneedle Prize, Mall Galleries, London - finalist
2008 ‘Andrew Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire’ His Life and Art Collection (with Elizabeth Frink, Stephen Conroy, Lucian Freud), Buxton Art Gallery and touring
2006 ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London, Curated by Laura Gascoigne - Art Critic, The Spectator
1994, 2005 The Hunting Art Prizes, The Royal College of Art, London and touring
2003/4 ‘Atlantic’ Fosterart, London (with Rebecca Salter, Perla Krauze, Lance Letscher), In Association with The Howard Scott Gallery, New York
2000 Wirksworth Festival, Derbyshire - Supported by Arts Council England
1999 Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London - Curated by Tom Coates, Artist
1998-99 The National Trust, Artist in Residence - Midlands Region
1998 The Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
1993, 1996, 1998 The Royal Academy, Summer Exhibition, London
1996 Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London, Curated by Martin Gayford, art critic/writer: Telegraph, Spectator and chief critic, Bloomberg News
1996 The Fine Art Society, London
1995 Christie’s, King Street, London
1995 The City Art Galleries, Nottingham (with Gwen John, Mark Gertler and David Bomberg) supported by Arts Council England - Midlands Region
1994 The City Art Galleries, Glasgow and touring
1993 Making a Mark, Drawing Symposium, London
1992 Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London, Curated by prof Glynn Williams, Head of Fine Art, RCA
1991 Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London and touring, Curated by Sir Brinsley-Ford Former Chair, The National Art Collections Fund
1991 Williamson Art Gallery, Birkenhead and touring
1986 The City Art Galleries (Graves), Sheffield
Collections
PUBLIC & CORPORATE:
The Duke of Devonshire and the Chatsworth Settlement
Trustees, Chatsworth and Lismore Castle
The William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation Inc, New York
The Finnish Embassy
The National Trust
Sheffield Hallam University
Private:
UK, Europe, USA & Japan