Artist CV, exhibitions, awards and press
Experience + Education
20+ years art and design experience
Visual Art & Culture B.A. - Salford University
Graphic Design Higher National Diploma - Salford University
Graphic Design National Diploma - City College Manchester
Exhibitions
2023 Public Messaging, Daisy Chain, Belfast City Council, Belfast, Northern Ireland
2023 Gift to the City - Public Art Trail, Belfast, Northern Ireland
2022 Artichoke Trust, Public Art, Shortlisted
2022 Printworks Public Art, Shortlisted
2022 Passion Art Gift to the City, Mcr
2021 Against the Odds, Spanish Step Installation (alongside global street artist JR) Wembley Park, Wembley Stadium, London
2021 Against the Odds, site wide digital assets (alongside global street artist JR) Wembley Park, Wembley Stadium, London
2021 You Are Enough, Hit the North street art festival, Belfast
2021 Axis Skyscraper, (10 floor digital board), Manchester
2020/21 Belonging Flag Installation, St Ann’s Sq, Manchester
2020 Jack Arts Billboards, Manchester
2019 Status Cages, Black Box, Belfast
2018 Stations of the Cross, One Friday
2017 Buzzcocks OA Reframed, Refuge, Design Mcr
2016 Any Day Of The Week, Passion Art Trail, Mcr
2015 Major Solo Show, Untitled, Stockport Museum
2014 Dear Progress 21 Billboards, Arts Council, Manchester
2014 Design Mcr, with Oliver James, Steve Lambert (USA) & Neil Boorman, Design Mcr
2014 Tour De France, Millenium Gallery, Sheffield
2013 Capital Freedom, Greenbelt, Cheltenham
2012 Twelve & One, ‘AND’ by Cornerhouse Mcr & Fact Liverpool
2012 Foreground Projects Notes from Nowhere (alongside Turner Prize Winner Douglas Gordon), Frome
2011 We are all in this together, Bureau Gallery, Mcr
2010 Flypost, Kraak, Mcr
2009 Best of Manchester Awards, Urbis, Mcr
2000 Pulp and On, Mcr
1995 Titillating, Temple of Convenience, Mcr
Selected Publications
2020 Creature, Issue 3, 4, 5
2017 This is the Place, Tony Walsh & friends
2016 Be Still, alongside Turner Prize Winner Anthony Gormley
2016 Segment Magazine
2015 Living Well Magazine, USA
2015 Now & Not Yet by SAW
2000 Visual book by Oliviero Toscani, Fabrica, ITALY
Self Published
2014 These Thoughts of Ours. A Collection of over 80 quotes.
2019 The Multi-disciplined Creative. Behind the design scenes of the work of Micah Purnell
Selected Press
BBC Radio Manchester 2020
Print and Paste, Creative Review
Dear Progress, Creative Tourist, Cardiff Times & Wales Online
Put Down Your Phone And Talk To Me, Getty Images
Fly, Guardian
The Finger, The Aesthetic Trust
Notes From Nowhere Exhibition with Turner Prize winner Douglas Gordon
Awards
Winner Best Magazine Design, MMU
Guardian Student Media Awards / Group Award
Successful completion of School of Thought, an intensive industry run advertising program
Best Of Manchester Awards, Urbis Gallery, Special Exhibit
Talks
Road to Wembley, Bolton University, Remote
Pecha Kucha, People’s History Museum, Manchester
Going Forward Slowly going Forward, New York State University, New York
Dear Progress, Belfast
Selling Virtues, Greenbelt, Cheltenham
Two Words, Ashburnham Place, Hastings