BIOGRAPHY
1968-72: Studied at Dept of Fine Art, University Of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
1972-74: Studio Demonstrator at the above
1974-88: Lecturer in Art and Design at the University of Lancaster
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
1976: Abbot Hall Gallery, Kendal (one-person)
1977: Peterloo Gallery, Manchester (one-person)
1978: ‘Contemporary British Sculpture’, Durham DLI Museum
1981: ‘Five Young British Sculptors USA’ (Supported by the British Council)
Decker Gallery, Baltimore; Museum of Art, Oklahoma; United Artists Gallery,
Albuquerque; Laumier Sculpture Park, St Louis, Missouri
1978 & 1982: ‘Sculpture for a Garden’, Tatton Park, Cheshire and Gunnersbury Park London
1983: ‘Sculpture for a Country Park’, Margam, South Wales
1983: ‘Portland Clifftop Sculpture Project’ (Ref: ‘Open Air Sculpture in Britain’, W. J. Strachen, Zwemmer/Tate gallery)
1984: ‘Exposed To the Elements’, Ambleside, Cumbria.
1984: ‘A Sense of Place’ Grizedale Forest (touring exhibition)
1985: ‘Sculpture for a Garden’, Peto Garden, Oxford
2017: ‘Toying with Art’, Rolle Centre, Devon (with Cliff Gorman)
2023: ‘Toys of Innocence and Experience’, ‘The Exeter Phoenix (with Cliff Gorman)
WORK IN COLLECTIONS
Rufford Park Sculpture collection (‘Purchase’ Prizewinner) 1986
Museum of Art, Albuquerque, USA
Laumeir International Sculpture Park, St Louis, USA
And numerous private collections in the UK and USA
PRINCIPLE LANDSCAPE & GARDEN DESIGN PROJECTS
(Includes ‘show’ gardens and installations)
1991: ‘Recreation Garden’ for Hodgkinson Psychiatric Centre, Lincoln Hospital
1991: ‘Instant Garden’ for BBC Television Series ‘Gardens by Design’
1991: ‘Hanging Gardens of Chelsea’, RHS Chelsea Flower Show, (Silver-Gilt medal)
1991: ‘Just what is it?’ A prefabricated and portable garden, Hampton Court Flower Show
1992: ‘Garden at Torrens’; for private clients, Mr. and Mrs. Hunter
1992: ‘Greening of Industry’, RHS Chelsea Flower Show (Sword of Excellence for best garden)
1994: Re-design of the Dutch Garden at Parnham House, Dorset, for John and Jennie Makepeace
1994: Controversial ‘Cool and Sexy garden’, RHS Chelsea Flower Show 1994
1995: (revised in 2002) ‘Multi- Media Garden’, private client, London
1997: ‘Boy’s Own Garden’, for the Ford Motor Company, RHS Chelsea Flower Show
1997: ‘Night Garden’, private client, North London
1999: ‘Floating Garden’, RHS Chelsea Flower Show
2001: Designed garden for BBC TV series ‘Small Town Gardens’
2001: Roof garden for The Leonard Hotel, Mayfair, London, 2001 (Ref: ‘Curious Gardeners’ BBC 2)
2002: ‘Experimental Garden’, International Garden Festival, Grand Metis, Quebec, Canada
2003: ‘Climate Cases’, an installation for Marston & Langinger, at RHS Chelsea Flower Show
2004: ‘A Sensory Garden’, Newbus Grange, Darlington (A garden for a residential home that specialized in the care of adults with autism)
2008: ‘From an Ocean to a Garden’ RHS Chelsea Flower Show (Testi Fratelli & Simply Italian)
SELECTED REVIEWS
‘A plot to brighten the future’, Rosie Atkins, The Times, 1992
‘Pathway to the Future’: Stephen Lacey, Telegraph, 1994
‘How Avant-Garde can a garden get?’ Helen Chappell, Independent on Sunday, 1994
‘Full Metal Deconstruction’: Independent on Sunday, 1995
‘Pop goes the Garden’: New Eden, issue one, June 1999
‘Sexy and Cool’: Architektur & Wohnen, Sept 1999
‘ELLE’ Decoration, Aug 2001
‘Switched on’: Tim Richardson, Telegraph Weekend, 2002
‘Paesaggi d’autore’: Paul Cooper, ‘VilleGiardini’, Sept 2003
‘Licht – Bluten’ Architektur & Wohnen, Feb 2004
GARDENS IN PUBLICATIONS
‘Really Small Gardens’ by Jill Billington (RHS), ‘The Modern Garden Makers’ by Sally Court (Ward Lock); ‘The New London Garden’ by George Carter (Mitchell Beazley); ‘Chelsea, the greatest show on earth’ by Leslie Geddes-Brown (Dorling Kindersley); ‘The Garden Book’ (Phaidon); ‘Radical Gardens’ by Jane Amidon (Thames & Hudson); ‘Small Town Gardens’ (BBC); ‘Jardins d’aujourd’hui en Europe’ by Penelope Hill (Fonds-Mercator); ‘Jardins Secrets de Londres’, by Caroline Clifton-Mogg (Flammarion); ‘Modern Family Gardens’ Caroline Tilston (Wiley-Academy); ‘Hybrids: Reshaping the Contemporary Garden in Metis’ Lesley Johnstone (Blue imprint); ‘Avant Gardeners’ by Tim Richardson (T&H)
TV and MEDIA
Featured in the TV series ‘Gardens by Design’ (BBC) 1991, and ‘Small Town Gardens’ (BBC) 2001. Gardens also appeared in ‘Curious Gardeners’ (BBC) 2001-2002, and ‘Gardens Through Time’ (BBC) 2004.
EDUCATIONAL
Visiting professorship at The Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore, USA, 1981
Visiting lecturer at Central St. Martin’s College, London
Visiting lecturer Cornell University, USA, April 2004
SELECTED LECTURES
‘Steel palms and rubber lawns’, Society of Garden Designers seminar, Oxford 1997
‘A Look to the Future’, Oxford University Botanical Garden, 20th century garden design seminar, 1999
‘Gardens for the New Century’: Conference on Garden and Landscape design for the 21st century, Essex Record Office, Chelmsford, 2000
‘The Future of Garden Design’: Gardens Illustrated Spring lecture, Royal Geographical Society, 2000
‘The New Tech Garden’, Royal Horticultural Society, Wisley, 2001
‘A Designers Perspective’, The University of Oxford Botanic Garden, 2002
Lecture to the American Association of Landscape Architects, Miami, Florida, 2003
PUBLISHED BOOKS
‘The New Tech Garden’; ‘Living Sculpture’; ‘Interiorscapes’; ‘Gardens Without Boundaries’: all published by Mitchell Beazley
‘Conceptualist Landscapes’: Packard Publishing