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Education

1995Fellow - Royal Society of Arts, Manufacturing and Commerce.
1968-70The Slade School of Fine Art, University College London
1967-68Goldsmiths' College, University of London
1964-67Wolverhampton College of Art
1963-64Nottingham College of Art

Career History

2005Founding Chief Executive, University College for the Creative Arts at Canterbury, Epsom, Farnham, Maidstone, Rochester. Retired from employment in education 2005
1996-05Director & Chief Executive, Kent Institute of Art & Design.
1989-96University of Wolverhampton. Professor of Art & Design and Dean of the School of Art & Design.
1984-89Williams College Massachusetts, USA. Professor of Photography and Video
1974-84Roehampton Institute, London. Postgraduate Course Leader in Art Education.
1971-73Homerton College, Cambridge. Lecturer in Sculpture.
1970-71University of Reading. Part-time lecturer in Fine Art

External Committee Memberships and Trusteeships

2006-Lay Member, Rochester Cathedral Chapter
2002-Founding Chair, United Kingdom Arts & Design Institutions Association(UKADIA)
2002Member, Kent & Medway Economic Board
2001-05Policy Group member, Consortium of Arts & Design Institutions of Southern England(CADISE)
2001-05Chair, Higher Education Kent & Medway (HEKAM)
2000-05Board of Directors, Higher Education and Research Opportunities (HERO)
1999-09Member, Rochester Cathedral Council
1998-09Member, Rochester Cathedral Fabric Advisory Committee
1997-99Executive Committee Member, CHEAD
1997-05Management Committee of the Standing Conference of Principals (SCOP)
1992-98Slade Committee, University College London
1992-96Trustee, Lichfield Cathedral Educational Trust
1989-92Photography Panel, CNAA

Industry

1975-81Chairman, River Scientific Ltd, Nottingham. (Family company, manufacturing and supplying laboratory apparatus and chemicals)

″I still use the same approach to my work: I get an idea, think of the title and then make the work. So not much has changed since 1964″

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