QUALIFICATIONS1978 Higher Diploma, Postgraduate Sculpture, Slade School of Art, London 1976 BA Hons, First Class, Fine Art, Brighton Polytechnic COLLECTIONSArts Council of Great Britain Northern Arts Association Leicestershire Education Authority Rufford Country Park Harlow Health Centre Milton Keynes Community Workshop Trust Leicester Royal Infirmary Pearl Assurance, Peterborough Commission for New Towns, Milton Keynes Buckinghamshire County Museum, Aylesbury Wspolnota Polska, Nowy Sacz, Poland COMMISSIONS1986 - Telford Development Corporation 1987 - Nuffield Orthopaedic Hospital, Oxford 1987 - SAAB UK. Ltd 1987 - Free Trade Wharf, London Docklands 1989 - Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford 1989 - Leicestershire Education Council 1989 - St Bede's Church, Newport Pagnell, Bucks 1990 - Milton Keynes Hospital 1990 - Stockgrove Country Park, Bedfordshire 1991 - Milton Keynes Development Corporation 1991 - St. Mary's Hospital, Kettering 1991 - NCC. East India Dock, Wapping, London 1993 - Perton Library, Staffs 1994 - Priory Country Park, Bedford 1995 - Stepping Hill Hospital, Stockport 1995 - Dairsie Castle, Fife, Scotland 1995 - Oxford St. Roundabout, Bilston, West Midlands 1996 - The Clere School, Burghclere, Berkshire 1997 - Vine’s Gardens, Rochester 1999 - Brierley Forest Park, Notts. 1999 - St. Edwards School, Sherfield English 1999 - Hovercraft Celebration, New Forest District Council, Hythe, Hampshire 1999 - Loughborough Town Hall, Leicestershire 2000 - Langthorne Park, Leytonstone, London 2000 - Chatelherault Country Park, Hamilton, Scotland 2002 – Chart Rd. Roundabout, Ashford, Kent 2002 – South Park, Redbridge, Essex 2003 – Bargoed Gateways Project, South Wales 2003 – Wiveliscombe Gateway, Somerset 2004 – Brookside School, Bicester, Oxon 2004 - Miners Memorial, Bargoed Country Park 2006 – Wat Tyler Country Park, Essex 2007 – Blagdons Meadow, Plymouth 2007 – Hove Progressive Synagogue, East Sussex PUBLICATIONS'Open Air Sculpture in Britain' - Zwemmer/Tate Gallery 'A Sense of Place' - Sculpture in Landscape - Coelfrith Press 'The Grizedale Experience' - Cannongate Press 1991 'Art in Public' - AN Publications 'The Encyclopaedia of Sculpting Techniques' - John Plowman, Quarto Books 'Start Sculpting' - John Plowman, Quarto Books 'Natural Order' - The Grizedale Society, 1996 'The Art of the Woodcarver' - GMC Publications ‘At The Edge Of Centuries’ – catalogue – essay by Craigie Horsfield -1997 ‘Dziady’ – catalogue – essay by Jerzy Madeyski – 1997 ISBN 83-904836-6-1 ‘Robert Koenig – Sculpture’- catalogue - 2002 ARTICLES/REVIEWSArtscribe No 13 1978 Arts Review 26.09.80 Arts Review 02.07.82 Arts Review Dec. 1984 Aspects Spring 1983 Aspects July 1984 Studio International May 1983 Architectural Review Sept. 1985 Arts Review 28.02.86 Craft No. 81 1986 Arts Review July 1986 Landscape Design Dec. 1987 Arts Review 11.03.88 Arts Review April 1992 Woodcarving No. 8 1994 Woodcarving No. 18 1995 Landscape Design 1996 RESIDENCIES1982 Resident Sculptor - Grizedale Forest, Cumbria 1983 Polish Government Postgraduate Scholarship 1984 Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club 1986 Brookside Middle School, Telford 1986 Milton Keynes Community Workshop Trust 1986 Resident Artist, Rufford Country Park 1987 Atkinson Art Gallery, Southport 1987 Belvoirdale Primary School, Coalville, Leics. 1989 Cobden County Primary School, Loughborough 1989 Wyvern Primary School, Leicestershire 1990 Stratton Upper School, Biggleswade, Beds. 1990 East of England Show, Peterborough 1991 St. Peter's Cof E Primary School, Whetstone, 1992 Alex Campbell School, Bletchley, Bucks 1994 St Paul's School, Woughton, Milton Keynes 1994 Linford Combined School, Milton Keynes 1994 Bradwell Village School, Milton Keynes 1994 College de Trion, Samer, France 1995 The Clere School, Burghclere, Hampshire 1995 Bilston Art Gallery, West Midlands 1996 North Kidlington C.P. School, Kidlington, Oxon 1996 The Clere School, Burghclere, Hampshire 1996 Libusza School, Libusza, Poland 1999 St Edwards School, Sherfield English, Hants. 2000 Community Project, Rutherglen, Glasgow 2000 Buchan Country Park, Horsham 2001 St.Edwards School, Sherfield English, Hants. 2001 Great Chart School, Singleton, Kent 2003 Brookside School, Bicester, Oxon 2006 Cherry Tree Primary School, Basildon, Essex 2006 Bardfield Primary School, Basildon, Essex 2006 De La Salle Secondary School, Basildon 2007 Prince Rock Primary School, Plymouth |
EXHIBITIONS1977A Matter of Degree - South East Arts - Touring 'Tree' Exhibition - Chicago, USA Polish Cultural Institute, London (One Man Show) 1979Centaur Gallery, London Amnesty International Sculpture Show, London 'Wood', Yorkshire Sculpture Park 1980Serpentine Gallery Summer Show, London 1982London Wood Partners Gallery, London (One Man Show) Whitechapel Gallery Open, London Norfolk House Artists, Lewisham Concert Hall, London 1983'Some Sculpture Now', Brighton Polytechnic Gallery Tolly Cobbold/Eastern Arts 4th National Exhibition (touring): Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge Christchurch Mansion, Ipswich Museum of Modern Art, Oxford Barbican Art Gallery, London Talbot Rice Art Centre, Edinburgh Leeds City Art Gallery 'Views and Horizons', Yorkshire Sculpture Park Greenwich Theatre Gallery, London (Solo) 'Ten Artists', South London Gallery Norfolk House Open Studios, Deptford 1984Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool Royal Institute of British Architects, London Sunderland Arts Centre Contemporary Art Society Market, Five Dials Gallery, London Paton Gallery, London - 1984 Norfolk House Open Studios, Deptford, London 1985Harlow Playhouse, Harlow, Essex Consort Gallery, Imperial College, London Woodlands Art Gallery, Greenwich, London Rufford Sculpture Show, Rufford Country Park, 1985Contemporary Art Market, Smiths Galleries, London Paperworks, Constructions, Textiles, Art for Offices 1986Hannah Peschar Gallery, Garden Sculpture Show, Ockley, Surrey Whitechapel Gallery Open, London Bretton Menagerie, Yorkshire Sculpture Park Artists in Industry (West Midlands), (touring): Stoke on Trent Museum and Art Gallery Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry Wolverhampton Art Gallery Walsall Art Gallery National Garden Festival, Stoke on Trent Works in Wood, Rufford Country Park Middlesborough Art Gallery The Great Barn, Milton Keynes (One Man Show) Contemporary Art Society Market, Smiths Galleries, London 1987Leicester Royal Infirmary, Leicester (solo) Shropshire Artworks, Telford College, Shropshire British Relief Woodcarving, (touring): Atkinson Art Gallery, Southport The Elizabeth Art Gallery, Wakefield Bury St. Edmunds Art Gallery D.L.I. Museum and Arts Centre, Durham 'Drumscroon' Wigan Education Art Centre, Wigan Williamson Art Gallery, Birkenhead, Wirral Radcliffe Royal Infirmary, Oxford Contemporary Art Society Market, Smiths Galleries, London 1988Shaw Theatre, London (One Man Show) Exhibition Gallery, Milton Keynes, Bucks Contemporary Art Society Market, Smiths Galleries, London 1989Critic's Space V, Air Gallery, London Contemporary Art Society Market, Smiths Galleries, London 1990Le Carre de l'Eglise Art Festival, St. Tropez, France 'Mysteries, Shrouds and Echoes', Abingdon County Museum, Oxfordshire Lincolnshire Sculpture Project Gallery, Mawthorpe, Lincs. CAS Market, Smiths Gallery, London 1991'On Uncommon Ground', Cartwright Hall, Bradford 'Shifting Perspectives', Brixton Art Gallery, London Little Brickhill Sculpture Walk, Bucks Carvings in Colour, Rufford Country Park CAS Market, Smiths Gallery, London President's Gallery, Branicki Palace, Warsaw, Poland Galeria Forma & Colour , Warsaw, Poland 1992Rufford Country Park, Notts. (solo show) 'Foreign Bodies', Huddersfield Art Gallery 'Temple & Portals', Milton Keynes Exhibition Gallery (one man show) 'From a Ladies Cherishings' - Bury St. Edmunds Gallery 'Out of the Greenwood', - Oxfordshire County Museum, Woodstock (one man show) Little Brickhill Sculpture Walk, Bucks. Contemporary Art Society Market, Smiths Galleries, London 'Goal', - Visionfest, Senate House Gallery, Liverpool 'Temple & Portals', - Middlesborough Art Gallery -(One Man Show) 1993Midsummer Art Show - CBX, Milton Keynes 'The Face Fits', Middleton Hall, Milton Keynes RIBA Sculpture Court, London (solo show) Contemporary Art Society Market, Smiths Gallery, London Contemporary Bucks Artists, Stowe School 'Boxed Art', High Wycombe Museum 1994Art 94, London Contemporary Art Fair Black Boy Gallery, West Wycombe Hannah Peschar Sculpture Garden, Ockley, 'Carmen and Other Stories', High Wycombe Museum (one man show) Midsummer Art Show, CBX, Milton Keynes 'Future World', Milton Keynes Leighton Buzzard Arts Centre 'Narrative Woodcarving', (touring): Bedale's Gallery, Steep Petersfield Eurosculpture Festival, Carhaix, Brittany, France 1995'Narrative Woodcarving', (touring ) [Banbury Museum, Winchester Gallery Ruthin Craft Centre Gallery, The Gantry, Southampton] Art Aid, 77 Cornhill, London '1812', High Wycombe Museum Midsummer Art Show, CBX2 Milton Keynes Le Chat Noir Gallery, Mayfair, London 'Landings', Bucks County Museum, Aylesbury The Orangery, Rufford Country Park, Notts 'Trees', Six Chapel Row Contemporary Art, Bath 1996Apsidal Gallery, Rufford Country Park, Notts (one man show) Midsummer Art Show, CBX2, Milton Keynes 'No Visa Required' - Polish Cultural Institute, London 1997'At the Edge of Centuries', Bucks County Museum, Aylesbury (one man show) Dwor Karwacjanów Gallery, Gorlice, Poland (one man show) 'No Visa Required' - Polish Cultural Institute, London Aldeburgh Festival, Hill Lodge, Aldeburgh South Bank Banner Festival, London (prizewinner) 1998'Dziady' Galeria Pasaz, Tarnow, Poland (one man show) 'At the Edge of Centuries' : Leighton Buzzard Library Gallery Bedford Library Gallery Dunstable Library Gallery (one man show)) 'DoveTales', Rufford Craft Centre, Notts Aldeburgh Festival, Aldeburgh 1999‘Sticks’, Southern Arts Touring Exhibition, Yew Tree Gallery, Slad, Glos. Horsham Arts Centre, (One Man Show) Michelham Priory, Hailsham, East Sussex ‘Towards the Millennium’, ArtSway – Sway Hampshire 2000Worthing Museum (one man show) ‘Gift of Art’, Horsham Arts Centre 2001‘Relics of Memory’. East Kilbride Arts Centre (one man show) Garden of Art, Delvyns Farm, Gestingthorpe. Symposium in Gorlice, South East Poland. 200220 year Retrospective Exhibition, Cadzow Gallery, Hamilton, Scotland 2003Otter Gallery, University College, Chichester (One Man Show) ‘Encounters’. Sussex Open, Brighton Museum ‘Fresh Air 2003’ Quenington Sculpture Show Brighton Festival, Open House 2004“Galician Odyssey” – ‘Dziady’ project on tour: Palace of Art, Lwow, Ukraine “Art on a European Street”, Tarnow, Poland Gallery Strug, Zakopane, Poland Museum of Archeology, Krakow, Poland Space Gallery, Krakow, Poland Dwor Karwacjanow Gallery, Gorlice Poland Godinton House, Godinton, Kent Brighton Art Fair 2005Arthouse Gallery, Brighton Barn Gallery, Henley on Thames Caerleon Sculpture Symposium, South Wales “In The Shadow Of The Tree Of Life”- POSK Gallery, King St. London “Sculpture in the Planning, Sculpture in the Making”. Atkinson Gallery, Millfield, Somerset Secret Garden, Spetchley Park, Worcester 2006Brighton Fringe Arts Festival, All Saints Church, (Prizewinner) 2007Barbican Library, London Royal Society of British Sculptors, London Castle Arts Centre, Wellingborough “Outside/Inside” – Gibberd Gallery, Harlow Cwmaman Sculpture Symposium, Wales Hailsham Arts Festival, East Sussex Odyssey on tour:Chichester Cathedral Portsmouth Cathedral Church of Christ the Cornerstone, Milton Keynes Rochester Cathedral Stockport Museum and Art Gallery Chadkirk Chapel, Romiley, Cheshire Museum of Hatting, Stockport Work in public and private collections in United Kingdom, USA, France, Italy, Sweden and Poland. |