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Contact Details
127 Rushmore Road, LondonE5 OHA T:0208 533 7036 Price Guide
Specialist Techniques
Training College
1977-80 BA (Hons) Middlesex Polytechnic 1981-84 MA Royal College of Art, London
Personal Statement
I established my workshop in 1984 after graduating from the Royal College of Art. Since then I have produced innovative, functional tableware for exhibition and corporate and private commission. I primarily use silver although occasionally I combine it with other metals where appropriate. It is important that through the design process I challenge and stretch my personal concerns, together with previous definitions of the object. Design is an individual's response to a set of criteria. Criteria implies parameters and it is a clear understanding of these that often inspires and initiates a piece. My designs rely on form rather than decoration for impact and are often complex, yet with clean lines exploiting the inherent qualities of silver. The personal priorities that repeat throughout my work are space, line, proportion, balance and the relationship between the object and the surface it sits on. External source material comes indirectly from a broad interest in all things visual but in particular architecture.
Current Exhibition
Exhibitions
2001 A Sterling Tale, Keith Lippert Gallery, Washington, USA Elegance, The Brewery Arts Centre, Cirencester, England 2000 Line and Plane, Derek Topp Gallery, Derbyshire, England The Silver Show, Leighton House, London, England 1999 British Silver Promotion, Hong Kong Silver in Motion, Holland 1998 The Silver Show, Leighton House, London, England Mappin & Webb Silver Exhibition, London, England Hackney Contemporaries at the Orangery, London, England 1997 Contemporary Decorative Arts, Sotheby's, London, England The Millennium Canteen, Sheffield, England Hackney Contemporaries, The Geffreye Museum, London, England ##ABDS#, Inhorgenta, Germany 1994 Table Silverware Competition, Goldsmiths' Hall, London, England 1993 Contemporary Silver, Garrard & Co., London, England 1992 Metal & Glass, The Rufford Gallery, Nottinghamshire, England 1989 Making It, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England 1988 New British Design, Osaka, Japan Hallmark Silver Selection, The Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, London, England Sotheby's Decorative Arts Awards, London, England and Japan 1987 Jewellery and Precious Metals, The Design Centre, London, England Publications
Public Collections
Yorkshire Artspace, The Precious Metals Commission, Sheffield, England The Millennium Canteen, Sheffield City Council, England Lancashire County Council Museum Service The Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, London, England AMC International, Switzerland
Awards
1984 The Bakri Yehia Memorial Prize for Excellence Goddard's Award for Design in Silver 1981 Goddard's Award for Design in Silver 1979 Johnson Matthey Silver Design Award, First Prize Galleries
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