1957 | Born in Ayios Amvrossios, Cyprus |
1966 | Moves to the United Kingdom and goes to school in London |
| 1976-80 | Newcastle Upon Tyne University, B.A. (Hons) 1st Class in Fine Art |
| 1982-85 | Royal College of Art, London, M.A. in Fine Art |
| 1985 | Artist in Residence, West Yorkshire Playhouse |
| 1986-87 | Koninklijke Akademie voor Kunst en Vormgeving, 's-Hertogenbosch (Netherlands Government Scholarship) |
| 1988 | Bartlett Fellow in the Visual Arts (Newcastle upon Tyne University) Commissioned by the Imperial War Museum, London; People's Theatre, Newcastle |
| 1989 | Commissioned by the Borough of Darlington; Borough of Hartlepool; The Grizedale Society (also commissioned in 1991 and 1992) |
| 1989-90 | Commissioned by the National Garden Festival, Gateshead |
| 1992 | Artist in Residence, Cleveland |
| 1994 | Artist in Residence, The Grizedale Society |
| 2000 | Trip to Australia on a Travel Grant Year of the Artist Award |
2012 | Berlin Project |
| Taught part-time and visiting lecturer at a number of Art Colleges | |
Public Collections | |
| Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; British Council; Imperial War Museum; Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle; University of Northumbria at Newcastle; Edinburgh University; Hatton Gallery, Newcastle University; Gray Art Gallery and Museum, Hartlepool; Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead; Durham County Council; Cleveland Gallery, Middlesbrough; Ministry of Education, Cyprus; Rank Xerox; IBM | |
Selected Solo Exhibitions | |
1980 | Recent Prints, Northumbria University Gallery |
| 1981 | Paintings and Drawings, Bede Gallery, Jarrow Homage to Goya & Recent Prints, Hendersons Gallery, Edinburgh |
1982 | Paintings and Drawings, Bede Monastery Museum, Jarrow Prints, Ceolfrith Gallery, Sunderland Arts Centre Pentonville Gallery, London |
| 1984 | People and Places, Abbot Hall Art Gallery and Museum, Kendal |
| 1987 | Prints, The Minories, Colchester Coloured Etchings, Steendrukkerij Amsterdam B.V. |
1988-89 | Kalorkoti, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle and tour: Darlington Arts Centre; Gray Art Gallery and Museum, Hartlepool; Queen's Hall Arts Centre, Hexham (Catalogue - text by Eva Krabbe, 68 pages with 64 illustrations, 16 in colour) |
1990 | A Retrospective of Etchings and Screenprints 1978-89, Imperial War Museum, London (Catalogue - text by Frank Whitford, 40 pages with 33 illustrations, 20 in colour) National Garden Festival Commission, 1990, National Garden Festival, Gateshead (Catalogue - text by Roger Wollen, 40 pages with 234 illustrations, 8 in colour) |
1992 | A Retrospective View 1985-91, Design Works, Gateshead (Catalogue - text by Timothy Hyman, 32 pages with 46 illustrations, 44 in colour) Etchings and Drawings, Cleveland Gallery, Middlesbrough and tour: Steendrukkerij Amsterdam B.V. (Catalogue - text by Frank Van den Broeck, 72 pages with 93 illustrations, 48 in colour) |
1994 | Retrospective (Etchings 1983-93), Gallery K, London and tour: Galerie Titanium, Athens (Catalogue - text by Roger Cardinal, 32 pages with 44 illustrations, 33 in colour) |
| 1995 | Reflections of Grizedale (Acrylics, Watercolours, Etchings), Gallery in the Forest, Grizedale (Catalogue - text by Edward Lucie-Smith, 60 pages with 43 illustrations, 36 in colour) |
1997-98 | An Exhibition of Acrylics, Watercolours and Etchings, Design Works, Gateshead (Catalogue - text by Mel Gooding, 60 pages with 55 illustrations, 53 in colour) |
| 1998-99 | Heads, Faces and Figures, Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead and tour: Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry (Catalogue - text by Robin Gibson, 40 pages with 70 illustrations, 53 in colour) |
2000 | Acrylics, Watercolours and Etchings, AdHoc Gallery, Buddle Arts Centre, North Tyneside (Catalogue - text by Norbert Lynton, 40 pages with 44 illustrations, 43 in colour) |
| 2001 | Flowers in Watercolour, Gallery K, London and tour: Gallery K, Nicosia (Catalogue - text by Andrew Lambirth, 40 pages with 57 illustrations, 51 in colour) |
| 2002 | Moving Figures, Bangor Museum & Art Gallery, Wales and tour: Usher Gallery, Lincoln (Catalogue - text by Judith Bumpus, 40 pages with 61 illustrations, 61 in colour) |
| 2005 | In Motion, The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle upon Tyne (Catalogue - text by Elspeth Moncrieff, 40 pages with 51 illustrations, 51 in colour) |
2007 | In a Movement, BIC, Sunderland (Catalogue - text by Huon Mallalieu, 48 pages with 72 illustrations, 72 in colour) Events, European Commission in the UK, London (Catalogue - text by John Russell Taylor, 40 pages with 42 illustrations, 42 in colour) |
2014 | Four Nations Capitals, Northern Print, Newcastle upon Tyne (Catalogue - text by John Russell Taylor; Huon Mallalieu; Charles Saumarez Smith; Kathleen Soriano; Elspeth Bray; Frank Van den Broeck; Roger Cardinal), 48 pages with 88 colour illustrations |
Selected Group Exhibitions | |
| 1980 | The Stone Gallery, Newcastle |
| 1981 | Small Works, Newcastle Polytechnic Gallery |
| 1982 | and Printmaking, Waterloo Gallery, London (Catalogue) |
| 1983 | Stowells Trophy, Royal Academy of Arts, London Northern Young Contemporaries, (awarded Granada Prize) Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester |
| 1984 | Bath Festival Painting Competition New Contemporaries, ICA, London (Catalogue) |
1985 | Printmakers at the Royal College of Art, Concourse Gallery, Barbican Centre, London (Catalogue - text by William Feaver)
Fresh Air, St. Paul's Gallery, Leeds Whitworth Young Contemporaries, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester |
| 1986 | Tradition and Innovation in Printmaking Today, Milton Keynes Exhibition Gallery and tour: Ferens Art Gallery, Hull; Andrew Grant Gallery, Edinburgh; Concourse Gallery, Barbican Centre, London; Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth (Catalogue) Between Identity and Politics, A New Art, Gimpel Fils, London and tour: Darlington Arts Centre; Gimpel and Weitzenhoffer, New York (Catalogue) Fresh Art, Concourse Gallery, Barbican Centre, London (Catalogue) Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London |
1987 | Athena Art Awards, Concourse Gallery, Barbican Centre, London Which Side of the Fence, Imperial War Museum, London |
1989 | The Artistic Records Committee: A Retrospective 1972-1989, Imperial War Museum, London |
| 1991 | Homage to Goya and Soldier, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford |
| 1993 | The Portrait Now, National Portrait Gallery, London (Catalogue - text by Robin Gibson) Gallery K, London (Catalogue - text by Mary Rose Beaumont) |
| 1995 | Heads and Tales II, Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry |
| 2001 | New Light, Peterborough Museum & Art Gallery |
| 2001-02 | Green Line, Gallery K, London and tour: Gallery K, Nicosia; War Museum, Athens (Catalogue - text by Elpida Karaba) |
2002 | Butterflies and Moths, Derby Museum and Art Gallery |
| 2005-06 | Portrait, Alexia Goethe Gallery, London |
| 2006 | Winter Exhibition, Alexia Goethe Gallery, London |
| 2006-07 | Story, Alexia Goethe Gallery, London (Catalogue) |
| 2008 | Mediterraneo: a Sea that Unites, Italian Cultural Institute, London (Catalogue - text by Gabriele Magnani) |
2009-14 | What Lies Beneath: British Experiences of the Cold War, Imperial War Museum www.whatliesbeneath.org.uk |
