ARC Projects

Born in 1966 in Inverness. Lives and works in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2008- “two wheat fields”, Milton Keynes Gallery. Curators: Michael Stanley, Miria Swain and Emma Dean
- “100 Year Star Diary”, Kielder Observatory, Kielder
- “Void White Light Festival” (with Kevin Cannon), Guildhall, Derry
- “Night for Day”, Trinity Gardens, Newcastle
2007- “Three Estates Renga” (with Gavin Wade and Ravi Duprees), Birmingham
- “Four Seasons, Five Senses”, Northumbria Coast
2006 - “Avant-Garde English Landscape”, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton
- “Mesostic Lepodorum”, Noses’s Point, Seaham, County Durham
- “Cubecircle” (with Dan Civico), platforms 000006, Waygood Gallery, Newcastle
- “String of Pearls”, Dysart, Fife
- “International Edible Art Award”, Village Bakery Gallery, Melmerby
- “Floating Island Garden”, Northumbria Coast
2005 - “The stars before we heard them into conversations”, Tate Modern, London
- “Three Rivers Crossword”, Nexus, Newcastle
- “Ludwig Wittgenstein: There Where You Are Not”, (with Jeremy Millar and Guy Moreton), John Hansard Gallery, Southampton
- “Hill of Streams”, Cairnhead Community Forest, Dumfries and Galloway
2004 - “Crossword”, The Public, West Bromwich
- “Tweed” Tweed Rivers Interpretation Project, Scottish Borders
- “Your Name Here”, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
- “Dance Trace Dance Music” (with Andrew Hodson), Dance City, Newcastle
2003 - “Woodland Platform & Xylotheque”, The Hidden Gardens, Tramway, Glasgow
- “Right of Way” (with Guy Moreton), Galway Arts Centre, Galway
2002 - “B.Open, Labanotation”, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
2001 - “Flowers of the North Sea”, (with Zoe Irvine) Overbeck House, Lubeck

Selected Group Exhibitions:
2008 - “Herz:Rasen. The Football Exhibition”, Kunstlerhaus, Vienna
- “Now Then”, Bluecoat Art Gallery, Liverpool. Curators: Bryan Biggs and Sara Jayne Parsons.
2007- “Multiplicities”, ARC Projects, Sofia. Curators: Chris Byrne and Iliyana Nedkova
- “The Printed Path. Landscape, Walking and Recollection”, Tate Britain, London. Curators Jeremy Millar and Steven Bode
- “Neon”, The National Glass Centre, Sunderland
- “Harry Smith Remix”, Alt.Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Curator: Rebecca Shatwell
- “Sirens: An Evolution from Water, through Water, to Water” , 66 East: Centre for Urban Culture, Amsterdam
- Threshold 6x4”, The Front Room, Bridpoint
- “Kiosk”, Artists’ Space, New York
- “Inkubator”, Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh
- “In their own words”, End Gallery, Sheffield
- “Waterlog”, Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Norwich; toured to Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich; The Collection, Lincoln. Curator: Steven Bode
- “Mesostic Laboratorium,” Science Learning Centre North East
2006 - “Around About Words”, Tate Britain, London
- “Word Order, Concrete Poetry and its influence”, The Changing Room, Stirling. Curators: Kirsty McDonald
- “Forest Laboratory 06”, Darmstadt
- “Ball Im Kopf”, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Hamburg
- "fall", Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton
- “Isles and Lakes”, Village Bakery Gallery, Melmerby
2005 - EAST 05, Norwich
- “Soapsuds and Whitewash”, Turner Contemporary, Droit House, Margate
2004 - “Revolver”, Witte de With, Rotterdam; toured to ICA, London; Istanbul Biennial
- “Inset (Atopia)”, Blaffer Gallery, Houston, USA
2003 - “Outside of a Dog: Artists’ Books”, BALTIC, Gateshead
- “Wind Blown Cloud”, Brighton Photo Biennial, Brighton
2002 - “Generator”, Spacex, Exeter
- “Football Haiku & Labanotation”, Tramway, Glasgow (and touring)
1998 - “Anthology”, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh

Awards:
2007 - Winner best work of art in the public realm, Scottish Design Awards
- Northern Canon first major North-East Art Commission Award
2006 - Northern Rock Three Year Award
- First International Edible Art Award for Isles and Lakes
2000 - Scottish Design Awards (Best Typography, Best Book, Chariman’s Award)

Residencies:
2007 - Kielder Partnership, Kielder Observatory, Kielder
2006 - Killhope Leadmining Museum, Killhope, North Pennines
2003-05 - Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Artist’s Publishing Projects:
Conceived, edited and published bookscapes (2005-06); pocketbooks series (1999-2002), Morning Star (1990-2006). Worked with Sol LeWitt, Robert Creeley, Ian McKeever, Hans Waanders, Callum Innes, Simon Patterson, Lawrence Weiner, Pavel Buchler and Richard Tuttle.

Anthologies and Poetry Collections:
2004 - Goldfish Suppers, Edinburgh City Council
- Poezie bez hranic, loumouc Festival
2003 - BALTIC YEARBOOK, BALTIC
- Cuirt Annual 2003, Galway Arts Centre
2002 - Hours, WAX366
- football moon, BALTIC
2001- The Book of the Book, Granary Books

Bookscapes Series:
2006 THREE RIVERS CROSSWORD (with Sandy Balfour)
- Siren (with Chris Watson)
- Dance Trace Dance Music (with Andrew Hodson)
- Journey to the Lower World (Marcus Coates)

Small Press Series:
2004 - Mesostic Herbarium
- Friday 8 May, Alexander & Susan Maris
- turning toward living
2003 - Bynames
- Irish 2 (with Guy Moreton)
- The Book of Questions
2002 - Wind Blown Clouds
- Verse Chain

pocketbooks Series:
2002 - Football Haiku (with Guy Moreton
- Labanotation: the Archie Gemmill Goal (with Robin Gillanders)
2001 - Way to Cold Mountain
- The Order of Things (with Ken Cockburn)
- Justified Sinners (with Ross Birrell)
2000 - Atoms of Delight
- Love for Love (with John Burnside)
- Without Day
- Wish I Was Here (with Kevin MacNeil)


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