Born in 1955, Wales, United Kingdom.
EDUCATION
2009 – PhD by publication University of Wales Newport, United Kingdom
1981-1983 – University College London Slade School, HDFA, United Kingdom
1975-1979 – University of Reading Fine Art Department, BA (hons) 1st Class, United Kingdom
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
Natural Fantastic, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2023
Coldframe, Caetera Fumus, Winter Stack,Centre for British Photography, London, United Kingdom
2020
In Waiting, James Hyman Gallery, London United Kingdom
2019
A Hiding Place in Waking Dreams, Pennings Foundation, Eindhoven, Sweden
2018
Prospect refuge hazard 1, Dalby Forest, Ryedale Folk Museum, Crescent Arts, United Kingdom
Prospect refuge hazard 2, Hestercombe House Taunton, Somerset, United Kingdom
Fascination, Martin Asbæk Gallery, København, Denmark
2017
New Photographs : Klompching, New York, United States
2015
…the rest is smoke : representing Wales at the 56th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2014
Pastoral Monuments : Rencontres Internationales, Gaspésie, Canada
2013
Lure, Oriel Davies, National Touring Exhibition, Newton, United Kingdom
2012
Sightlines, Klompching Gallery, New York, United States
Beyond The View, BildKultur, Stuttgart, Germany
2011
Pond, Crescent Arts, Scarborough, United Kingdom
2010
Beyond The View, Klompching, New York, United States
2009
Beyond The View, Hoopers Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Display, g39, Cardiff, United Kingdom
Inside The View, Klompching Gallery, New York, United States
2007
Plantasia, LOCWS International, Sweansea, United Kingdom
2006
Inside the View, Gallery Harmonia, Jyvaskyla, Finland
2005
Grounded, Leeds Metropolitan Gallery, Leeds, United Kingdom
2004
Inside the View, Le Parvis, Tarbes, France
2003
Grounded, Impressions Gallery, Bradford, United Kingdom
Spot, Yard Gallery, Nottingham, United Kingdom
Hide, Ffotogallery, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
2002
Light Seeking Transparency ArtLab 17, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
2000
The Whole Story, Maidstone Library and Museum, Maidstone, United Kingdom
Zelda Cheatle Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Axel Thieme Galerie, Darmstadt, Germany
Unsettlement, Zinc gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
1999
Between There and Now, Impressions Gallery, Bradford, United Kingdom
Twice… Once, Angel Row, Nottingham, United Kingdom
1998
Twice… Once, Anderson O’Day, London, United Kingdom
1997
Unseen, Rack Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Moments Apart, Zelda Cheatle Gallery, London, United Kingdom
1994 – 96
Gone to Earth: John Hansard Gallery, Southampton; Portfolio Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland;
Ffotogallery, Cardiff, Wales; Montage Gallery, Derby, United Kingdom
1992
Threshold, Gray Gallery, North Carolina, United States
1985
Between Us, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
1983
Some kind of balance, Battersea Arts Centre, Women in Art Education Conference, Battersea, United Kingdom
1980
ICA Staircase Project, installation, The Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, United Kingdom
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Summer in the City, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2023
Summer in the City, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Dialektik der Präsenz Eine Ausstellung von Hans Dieter Huber:DZ Bank Kunstsammlung, Frankfurt
2022
Summer in the City, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Electric Eden: Swedenborg Film Festival London, Collaboration with Christian Carrière
Royal West of England Academy, Invited Artist Photography Open
Sussex Landscape: Chalk Wood and Water, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
2021
Unearthed: Photography’s Roots, Dulwich Picture Gallery, United Kingdom
Summer in the City, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
The Rules of Art?, National Museum Cardiff, Cardiff, United Kingdom
Object Artefact Photograph, Zelda Cheatle and 100 Heroines, The Grange Rottingdean
Turn to Return, Two Person Exhibition with Robert Darch, Cerntre Space Bristol
2019
Is This Planet Earth?, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Silent Green, Villa Renata, Basel, Switzerland
IN VIVO Tempo, Nooderlicht House of Photography, Groningen, the Netherlands
2018
Galerie Pennings, Eindhoven, the Netherlands
Is This Planet Earth? Ty Pawr Wrexham, Aberyatwyth Arts Centre, Wales, United Kingdom
Women in Focus, National Museum Wales, Wales, United Kingdom
2017
[AN-]SICHTENVOM UMGANG MIT DER WIRKLICHKEIT, DZ BANK Kunstsammlung, Frankfurt, Germany
The Moon and a Smile: Glynn Vivian Museum and Art Gallery Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom
2015
LOOK / 15: Victoria Gallery and Museum, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Double Take: Photography and the Garden, Hestercombe Gallery, Somerset, United Kingdom
A selection of Pavilions: Artists of the Venice Biennale. Town Hall de’ Paauw, Wassenaar, the Netherlands
2014
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London, United Kingdom
About Face, Klompching Gallery, New York, United States
2012
A World Away, Dyrham Park Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
New Perspectives: Landscape Art in Wales since the 1970s, National Museum Wales, United Kingdom
Hijacked 111, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Griffith University Art Gallery, Australia
2011
Portmanteau, Halle 14, Leipzig, Germany
Paris Photo, Aperture Foundation, New York, United States
National Eisteddfod, Wrexham, Wales, United Kingdom
Mostyn Open : Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno, Wales, United Kingdom
2010
We Have The Mirrors, We Have The Plans : Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno, Wales, United Kingdom
Nothing Is In The Place, Photo Month, Krakow, Poland
2008/2009
(Not) a Photograph, Obaine Galerije, Piran, Slovenia
2008
same as it ever was, Chelsea Future Space, London, United Kingdom
The Change, KvadraT Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
2007
Tamed and Framed, Harris Museum and Gallery, Preston, United Kingdom
2006
Ayermanana, Faculty Fine Arts, Cuenca, Spain
Landed, FSM Gallery, Florence, Italy
Forest Dreaming, Institute for Contemporary Art in Nature, London, Englnd
Z15, Museum of Fine Arts, St Petersburg, Florida, United States
2005
La Mirada Reflexiva with Robert Longo and Perejaume, Espai D’Art Contemporani de Castellon, Castelló, Spain
2004
About Face, Hayward Gallery, London
Je t’envisage, la disparition du portrait, Musée de L’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerlandm Polaroid : 39, London
Big Tits Rule, 1000,000 mph Project Space, London, United Kingdom
2003
Cara a Cara, Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal
Photo Espana, Madrid, Spain
2002
Unscene, Gasworks, London, United Kingdom
Soul Windows, Domo Baal, London, United Kingdom
2001
Gone Missing, Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York, United States
Solid State, Kettles Yard, Cambridge, United Kingdom
2000
Tierisch, Galerie Ahlers, Göttingen, Germany
UK Art 2000, Almstrasse Mitte, Berlin, Germany
Before Now…and After, The Clock House, Clerkenwell, United Kingdom
The Wreck of Hope, Nunnery Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Group show, Axel Thieme Galerie, Darmstadt, Germany
Chora, Underwood Street, London, United Kingdom
1999
Beweise einer Existenz, Kunstraum Siegert, Basel, Switzerland
1998
Here to Stay, Arts Council of England purchases from the 1990’s, London, United Kingdom
Other Worldly, Zelda Cheatle Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Inside, Artlab project at Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
1997
A Quality of Light, Office of Art project, Tate Gallery, St. Ives, United Kingdom
1996
Myth & Landscape (commissioned), Delphi, Greece
1995
Blindfield, Coventry Gallery, London, United Kingdom
1994
Lustre, Tower Bridge Piazza, London, United Kingdom
1993
Arte E Altro, Giovanni Artisti, Rome, Italy
Full Circle, Mostra British School at Rome, Italy
Photographs, Zelda Cheatle Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Moments of Capture, 2 person show, Museum of Modern Art, Skopje, Macedonia
Writing and Difference, Galerie B, Istanbul, Turkey
Indivisible, Valencia, Spain and Southampton City Art Gallery, United Kingdom
1992
Volcano, Oriel, Cardiff (catalogue); Street Level Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Once Removed, Anderson O’Day Gallery, London, United Kingdom
1991
Pivot, Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno and Philadelphia, United States
Barrage, Ffotogallery, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
A Place for Art, The Showroom, London, United Kingdom
Decomposition, Constructed British Photography: British Council touring Latin America
1990
Summer Show, Zelda Cheatle Gallery, London, United Kingdom
1989
Greenhouse/Yellow Lemon, two installations in collaboration with Sharon Morris, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff; Spacex, Exeter; Chisenhale Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Late Night Window Shopping, Roath Park Greenhouse, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
1988
Transformations, Chapter Arts Centre Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
1987
In Perpetuity, ‘New Arts Consort’
1986
Eight Days, Midland Group, Nottingham; Zap Club, Brighton, United Kingdom
1985
Diving for Pearls and Playing with Fire, National Film Festival, London, United Kingdom
After a Fashion, Camerawork, London, United Kingdom
1984
Stress Redress, London Film-Makers Co-op, Arts Council, London, United Kingdom
1982
The Power and the Glory, ICA Young Contemporaries, London, United Kingdom
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Al Dabbah Group. Arts Council of Wales. Arts Council of Great Britain. British Council. British Council, Rome. British Telecom. Bupa. Department of Trade and Industry. Ernst & Young. Glynn Vivian Museum and Gallery Swansea Wales. National Museum Wales. Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery. Manfred Heiting. Collection Museum of Fine. Arts Houston. Paul Wilson Collection. Reader’s Digest Collection. South Glamorgan County Council. Tetrapak. Texaco Collection. Unilever. Victoria and Albert Museum – Z Portfolio. Virgin Communications Collection
AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
2014 – Selected to represent Wales at the 56th Venice Biennale 2015
2013 – The Wakelin Award for video Chameleon: contemporary art collection Glyn Vivian Art Gallery and Museum, Swansea, United Kingdom
2012 – Inside the View nominated for best international photography book at Photo Espana, Spain
2011 – Joint first prize Visual Art at National Eisteddfod, Wales, United Kingdom
2011 – Major Creative Wales Award, Arts Council Wales, United Kingdom
2004 – Arts Council and University of Sunderland International Photography Fellowship, Jyvaskyla, Finland
1996 – Artist in Residence, Electronic Imaging, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, United Kingdom
1993 – Abbey Awardee, British School at Rome, Rome, Italy
