It's now been over 4 months since I first started the residency, in September 2012, which saw me working primarily with schools, in Wakefield & Barnsley, gathering evidence for the mural. It has been an amazing experience working with these wonderful & talented children.
The children, all 1500 of them, have been charged with making self-portraits and other images, which will form the 60 metre mural.
The self-portraits will form a crowd, over 20 panels, which will stretch the length of the East ... Continue reading ...
I was born in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, where I conducted my formal training at the college there.
In 1989 I studied painting at Cardiff Institute of Higher Education.
I graduated in 1992, and then spent the next 2 years working as an artist in Wakefield.
For the next decade I worked at HMP Leeds, teaching art, which gave me little time to paint. I then worked as manager of an art, media & performing arts in Lincolnshire.
I left this job due to ill health, which resulted in my subsequent disability - leaving me in a wheelchair.
