After
moving to Manchester to work for The Guardian & Manchester
Evening News he crossed to the ‘dark side’ and started working in advertising
and marketing. He ended up working for a regional development agency specialising
in economic development and destination marketing. He set up one of the first
indoor climbing centre’s in the North West and which still operates today. As
well as throughout the UK, he has climbed in South America, Asia and Europe and
this experience continues to influence his work.
‘A short walk in
the Big Country’ was an Arts Council solo exhibition tour across nine venues in
2008/09, responding to Thomas West’s, ‘Guide to the Lakes’, published in 1778. In
2011, he was invited to undertake a year-long residency and exhibition at
Liverpool’s Anglican Cathedral which later transferred to Cologne, Germany.
In 2015
he was invited to work on a project commission for the leading Manchester
architectural practice, Simpson Haugh recording the development of ‘No. 1
Spinningfields’. This led to a near sell-out solo exhibition ‘New lines in space’, at Contemporary
Six Gallery in 2017. A third solo exhibition with Contemporary Six, about the
imagined landscapes of the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester was held in
Sept 2019.
He has exhibited throughout across the UK and
has also had solo exhibitions in Cologne, New York, Washington DC and Paris.