1931, born in Wigan, England, lives and works in France

Orginals / Editions

“The way that I work is not entirely a mental process, by which I sit down at my desk and try to summon up an image. Rather through play and experiment putting like elements together in a controlled sequence, or with elements that are related in sequence put through every combination I can think of.

I work with primitive means and simple systems to generate structures which express a natural development. I do not intrude arbitrarily into this development. Each work is allowed to generate its own form. A work as Kenneth Martin said “is make bi its own history”. It is the product of a sequence of events taken over a period of time”.

Training

1949-52 Art School Wigan

1952-56 Art School, University College, London

1955 Tonks Price

1956 Design Price by the Sunday Times

1956-57 Study in Paris - Scholarship from the French Government

1971 1st price sculpture for Haverfordwest (British Art Council)

1974 1st price sculpture from Cardiff (Welsh Arts Council)

1980 Participation and organisation with Gerhard von Graevenitz for the exhibition

« Pier + Ocean » (Hayward Gallery, London and Musée Kröller-Müller, Otterlo)


Public Collections

Agricultural University, Wageningen, Pays-Bas

Allianz, Berlin, Allemagne

City of Amsterdam, Pays-Bas

Arts Council of Great Britain, Grande-Bretagne

Arts Council of Wales, Grande-Bretagne

The British Council, Grande-Bretagne

Camden Council, Londres, Grande-Bretagne

Doncaster City Art Gallery, Grande-Bretagne

Dresdener Bank, Dessau, Allemagne

The City of Dordrecht, Pays-Bas

Institut Collectie Nederland, Amsterdam, Pays-Bas

Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo, Pays-Bas

Manchester City Art Gallery, Grande-Bretagne

Museum of Modern Art, Lodz, Pologne

Musée de Grenoble, France

Musée de Montbéliard, France

Musée Matisse Le Cateau Cambrésis, France

Musée de Calais, France

Museum im Kulturspeicher Würzburg, Allemagne

National Collection, Warszawa, Pologne

Reading University, Grande-Bretagne

Rijksgebouwendienst, Rotterdam, Pays-Bas

Städtische Kunstsammlung, Gelsenkirchen, Allemagne

Städische Kunstsammlung, Mönchengladbach, Allemagne

Städtische Kunstsammlung, Neu-Ulm, Allemagne

Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam, Pays-Bas

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Pays-Bas

Stichting Beeldenpark Dordwijk, Dordwijk, Dordrecht, Pays-Bas

Tate gallery, Londres, Grande-Bretagne

University Collège, Londres, Grande-Bretagne

University of East Anglia, Grande-Bretagne

Solo Exhibitions (selection since 1995)

1995 Art Affairs, Amsterdam, Pays-Bas

1995 Galerie Durhammer, Frankfurt, Allemagne

1997 Art Affairs, Amsterdam, Pays-Bas

1998 Galerie Magnus Aklundh, Lund, Suède

1998 Espace d’art contemporain, Demigny, France

1999 Artist in résidence, Guesnsey, Iles Anglo-normandes

2000 Art Affairs, Amsterdam, Pays-Bas

2001 Museum Het Mondriaanhuis, Amersfoort, Pays-Bas

2001 Espace d’art contemporain, Demigny, France

2002 Stedelijk Muséum, Amsterdam, Pays-Bas

2005 Musée des Beaux-Arts et de la dentelle, Calais, France

2005 Espace Lumière, Hénin-Beaumont, France

2006 Galerie Oniris, Rennes, France

2006 Centre d’art contemporain Bouvet Ladubay Saumur, France

2007 Musée Matisse, Le Cateau-Cambrésis, France

2008 Galerie Oniris, Rennes, France



Group Exhibtions (selection since 1995)

1995

Tradition und kontinuität, Dessau, Allemagne

Coast / Art Line, Hoom, Pay-Bas

1996

Art and Technology, Royal Shell Research Laboratories, Amsterdam

De geur van hout, Gorcums Museum, Gorinchem, Pay-Bas

Städtische Galerie Ludenscheid, Allemagne

Contemporary Concrete Art, Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest

1997

Between Trees and Waves, Avegoor, Pay-Bas

13. Mednarodni Bienale Male Plasike, Murska Sobota, Slovénie

Museum für Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt, Allemagne

1998

Like Waves Breacking on the Shore. Ad Dekkers in His Time. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

Equivalences, Art Affairs, Amsterdam

1999

Positionen, Stiftung Bauhaus, Dessau, Allemagne

Kunst in den Treptowers, Berlin

oncrete Kunst, Culturel Centrum, Knokke-Heist, Belgique

Permutations, Sainsbury Centre, University of East Anglia, Norwich, Grand-Bretagne

Kelling Arts Festival, Norfolk, Grande-Bretagne

2000

Segmente, Erfurt, Allemagne

uin van verbeelding, Von Gimbom Arboretum, DooRN, Pay-Bas

Klein-beeld 2000, Midden-Beemster, Pay-Bas

2002

Hommage à R.P. Lohse, Gmunden, Suisse

25 x 25 Galerie St. Johann, Saarbrücken, Allemagne

2003

Konstruktive Kunst aus England, Niebüll, Allemagne

De Bomen van Pythagoras, Mondriaanhuis, Amersfoort, Pay-Bas

2005

Placements, Galerie König, Hanau, Allemagne

Symposion, Gorinchem, Pay-Bas

Old + New, Art Affairs, Amsterdam, Pay-Bas

Sjoerd Buismann / Norman Dilworth, Art Affairs, Amsterdam, Pay-Bas



2008

International Contemporary Art Fair, stand Galerie La Ligne

British Abstract Art 1950 - 1985, Portland Gallery, London