Career Outline
1967 Born Stafford, England.
1985 Foundation Course, Stafford College of Further Education.
1986 BA (hons.) Degree in Fine Art (Painting), Wimbledon School of
Art, London.
1989 Finalist, Winsor and Newton Young Artists Award Scheme.
Portrait included in Royal Society of Oil Painters Annual
Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London.
1990 Portrait commissions.
Begins Apollo Series, a sardonic group of paintings depicting the
impish gods at the heart of human procreation and technological
progress.
1992 Begins absurdist comic strips. Written in collaboration with
Stephen McGonigle, these mingle the drawing style of Herge
with a highly personal surrealism. One of these strips leads to a
40-page graphic novel, 'Grin If You Mean To Be' Other strips
become the subject of a postmodernist twist, being rendered on
canvas in a hand deliberately imitative of Van Gogh ('Away From
the Greatest', 'Collected Costs').
1994 Portrait included in Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual
Exhibition at Mall Galleries, London.
1995 Apollo Series exhibited in group show at Montserrat Gallery,
New York. British critic and former associate of the Surrealists
(esp. Magritte) George Melly describes it as 'strong and
confident work', appreciating the 'combination of the erotic and
the comic'.
1996 Absurdist comic strip paintings shown at Agora Gallery, New
York.
Solo show of portraits at AIR studios, London.
1998 Group show at CBGB's, New York.
Works with London artists Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard on their
ambitious live art event, 'A Rock N Roll Suicide', at the ICA,
London, taking on the singing role of David Bowie in a live two-
hour re-enactment of Bowie's final Ziggy Stardust concert. In a
review in the British newspaper, The Sunday Express, singer
Boy George mentions the 'spot-on' vocals.
Continuing the concept of using the 'hand' of a great artist to
paint about the present, begins the Michelangelo Series, which
reflects on the millennial doomsday zeitgeist . Abstracted
monstrous heads are combined with Michelangelo's apocalyptic
figure language and placed before Manhattan skyscrapers (
'Annunciation', 'Angels', '6th Avenue').
2001 In March, completes 'Angel', the final painting in the
Michelangelo Series. The setting is the twin towers of the World
Trade Centre, above which can be seen a small airliner, while
below, a mad angel of destruction brandishes a long golden
trumpet. Six months later, the World Trade Centre is destroyed.
2002 Greek collector commissions 'Syntagma'.
2003 Responds to war in Iraq with 'Cobra I' and 'Cobra II'.
2004 Commissioned to produce two large portraits of Raquel Welch
and Sophia Loren.
Writes a novel, 'Sex-Dole', subsequently described by former
Penguin editor and literary agent Peter Buckman of the
Ampersand Literary Agency, as 'a cracking idea', a 'well-written',
'clever satire' displaying a 'sensitive touch'.
2005 Begins 'Vehicles', a series of highly-detailed pencil drawings of
surrealistically corrupted 'future' vehicles. The apocalyptic tone
is intensified by a near-death experience on a flight from Athens
to London.
Is asked to write an analysis of Rubens' painting technique for
the website Afterrubens.org, a high-profile site dedicated to
exposing the dubious attribution of the London National
Gallery's 'Samson and Delilah' to Rubens.
2006 Moves to Greece. Paints 'Reception of New Semi-Bacchic Deity'.
2008 Solo show 'Vehicles' at Agathi Gallery, Athens.
Four 'Vehicles' drawings included in Art Athina International
Contemporary Art Fair, Athens.
The Vehicles Series is praised by film-maker Terry Gilliam.
Musee D'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean (MUDAM), Luxembourg
acquires six 'Vehicles' drawings for its permanent collection.
Produces 'Anatomical Studies I and II', highly finished pencil
drawings of re-imagined male members.
Commissioned to develop children's book, 'Apollo'.
2009 Five 'Vehicles' drawings loaned by MUDAM to B.S.P 22,
Espace de Creation Contemporaine, Charleroi, Belgium, for the
show 'T-Tris'. The drawings join works by Cindy Sherman,
Gilbert and George, others.
The drawings are praised in a review of the show in Belgian
newspaper, LeSoir.
Devises a cycle of paintings featuring the New Semi-Bacchic
Deity, an acerbic modern parallel to the Stations of the Cross,
influenced by current events in Greece, the artist's country of
residence.
2010 Musee D'art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean (MUDAM) includes its six
'Vehicles' drawings in its show 'Le Meilleur des Mondes'.
Locus Solus - Benaki Museum, Athens. Contributes 3 drawings
based on the writings of Raymond Roussel.
Vehicle piece 'Airport' included in Frieze fringe event Club 21:
Remaking the Scene, One Marylebone, London
2011 3rd Thessaloniki Biennale at The State Museum of
Contemporary Art, Greece. 15 works from the Vehicles Series
are included.
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