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 POSITIONS HELD
2004 -Freelance stone carver
2004 - 2005Head Stone Carver. Quibell and Son, Hull
2004 - 2005Consultant conservator, Louth Museum, Lincolnshire
2001 - Stone Consultant. Wellington College, Berkshire
1999 - 2004Part time Lecturer – Contemporary decorative crafts degree course. University of Lincoln
1990 - 2004Lincoln Cathedral Works Department
2003 - 2004Head of Sculpture
2000 - 2003Team Leader for Sculpture and Conservation
1993 - 1999Stone Carver
1990 - 1993Sculpture and stone conservator
1986 - 88 Senior Technician. Wandsworth Museum, London

 EDUCATION/TRAINING
1997 - 1999MA in Art, Design and Critical Theory. University of Lincoln
1992 - 1995CITB traineeship in stone carving. Lincoln Cathedral
1988 - 1990Higher National Diploma in Conservation and Restoration. Lincoln School of Art.
1982 - 1985BA(hons) degree in Fine Art (2:1). Hull School of Art and Design.
1981 - 1982Foundation course in Art and Design. Jacob Kramer College. Leeds.

 MAJOR PROJECTS/COMMISSIONS*
2004 - 2006Principle Carver for the restoration of Selby Abbey, North Yorkshire. Work has included replacement of parapet figures on the choir aisles and clerestory parapets, portrait heads of the present and previous Archbishops of York and design work.
2003 - 2004Head Carver for the new replacement tracery for the Deans Eye restoration project, Lincoln Cathedral. Work including many stiff leaf bosses and a portrait of the Dean of Lincoln as a green man.
2002Design and carving of a large sculptural tree planter for the Princes Quad, Wellington College public school, Berkshire. Work including a portrait relief of the Duke of Wellington.
1990 - 2001Conservation of the Romanesque frieze, Lincoln Cathedral. Work included cleaning and consolidation of 12th century sculpture. Re-carving of sculpture to replace original panels which were removed for safe storage and display. Project leader in later stages.
1999Memorial to Bishop Aelfhun. Sudbury, Suffolk. A millennium project commissioned by the Freemen of Sudbury. A three quarter sized seated figure of the Anglo Saxon bishop.
* this is a brief selection of Major projects. There are many other sculpture and conservation projects carried
out over the past 20 years.

 ASSOCIATIONS
2003Elected as a member of the Art workers Guild. Based in Bloomsbury, London, the Guild is a society of artists, craftsmen and designers, founded in the 19th Century by leading members of the Arts and Crafts movement. It promotes excellence and education in all aspects of Art, craft and design.