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- Professor of Fine Art
- The Slade School of Fine Art
- Faculty of Arts & Humanities
Foundation Brighton Polytechnic 1972/3 BA Combined Honours in English and Fine Art, Exeter University/Exeter College of Art 1973-76 PGCE Exeter University 1978.
Painting Department at the Slade School of Fine Art since 1992.




Five solo exhibitions in the USA included a retrospective at The University of Massachusetts, in 2001, Lucas Schoormans Gallery, New York, in 2000/01/06 and Gallery 339, Philadelphia in 2014.
A British Academy Grant enabled filming the Indian cotton industry resulting in, Light Curtain the commissioned film projection for Cotton: Global Threads at The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, 2012. Splicing Time: Rome and the Roman Campagna; Leverhulme Fellowship, 2016-17, investigated the visual and emotional resonance of drapery. Connections with the C18th Grand Tour were explored with an innovative photographic installation at UCL’s Art Museum as Artist-in-Residence and also at Compton Verney in 2020. Further Roman-inspired solo exhibitions were supported by the Cities Partnership Programme; Feu Follet, 2018 in London and Temporal Stabilities, 2020 in Rome.
My artwork featured in Fabric: Touch & Identity, Compton Verney, 2020, Women, Power, Protest, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, 2019 and A History of Photography: Series and Sequences, at The Victoria and Albert Museum, 2015. Also held in public Collections including, Tate, The British Museum, The V&A, The National Portrait Gallery, The Government Art Collection, The Whitworth Art Gallery, New Hall, Cambridge and The British Academy. The Yale Center for British Art, George Eastman Museum, University of California Museum at Berkeley, The Portland Art Museum, Oregon, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA and The Museet for Fotokunst, Denmark.
As part of the 150th Anniversary I organised and chaired a symposium "Slade Women" 9 February 2022, online, with a recording of the proceedings available here -
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/slade/slade-150/slade-women
Slade Drawing 150, published in December 2022, containing drawings from current staff members juxtaposed with others selected from UCL Art Museum Collection. I wrote the text in relation to the Slade Drawing Courses run by my colleague Sandra Smith.https://www.ucl.ac.uk/slade/slade-150/drawing-150
Slade Summer School courses include, Collage (2015) and Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal! (2016, 17, 18, 19) these focus on making connections between drawing in the studio and drawing in museums and art galleries.
Exposing the Self and juggling the uniform, was the keynote lecture at the conference Autoportraits en costumes, at the University of Nantes and the Beaux Arts de Nantes, 23-24/11/18.
Straw Poll was a paper delivered at the ON PAINTING conference in Manchester at the Whitworth Art Gallery on 31/11/15.
01-OCT-1999 | Lecturer Fine Art | Painting Department | Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, United Kingdom |
01-OCT-1992 – 30-SEP-1998 | Lecturer Postgraduate Painting | Slade School of Art | UCL, United Kingdom |
1978 | Postgraduate Certificate in Education | University of Exeter | |
1976 | Bachelor of Arts | University of Exeter |