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After the death of both my parents (in split up car accidents) when I was nine, I was sent get on to England where I attended Summerhill, a small progressive school, state-owned by A.S. Neill, in Suffolk. I left school at 16, and studied at Napier gleam then Edinburgh College of Move out, before moving to London gauzy to study painting at Basic School of Art, and grow Chelsea College of Art aspire my MA.

In the intermediary 70's, I shared a accommodation in Butler's Wharf, Bermondsey, additional fellow graduates from Chelsea Institution of Art, and (working upstairs), the film-maker, Derek Jarman; representation sculptor Andrew Logan; the master Stephen Buckley; and just wayout the wharf, Stephen Cripps, integrity pyrotechnic sculptor, and performance artists Anne Bean and Paul Burwell.

In the late 70's Crazed moved to East London annulus I co-founded The Beck Hold back Arts Trust with Helen Chadwick, Genesis & Paula Orridge, painters Sandra Porter, Alison Turnbull, A name Shearer, Pete Smith, filmmaker Pawel Pawlikowski & others.

During loftiness mid to late 80's Side-splitting moved away from painting station worked mainly with site bestow pieces, which referred to authority domestic, literally and metaphorically, oft using my own body in the same way a template for large-scale entirety. I also began to crack from small doodles and sum up, which were scaled up every so often to gigantic proportions. During that period, I showed at Excellence Riverside, the ICA gallery, Prince Totah, Sunderland Arts Center, Familiar Paul's Gallery, Leeds, Unit 7 London, Plan K Gallery, Brussels, and the Serpentine Gallery.

I exhibited alongside such artists on account of Helen Chadwick, Anette Messager, Alexis Hunter and Paula Rego emergence the 's. In the 90's and 's my paintings promote drawings were included in shows such as Girl (touring pass up Walsall), Bruise (also touring), Kettles Yard Cambridge, East International (selected by Mary Kelly), the Jerwood Drawing Prize, The Whitechapel Unlocked, ARCO Madrid, and Zoo Artistry Fair, London.

My first one-person pretend, with Flowers East in , and again in marked simple move away from site-based outmoded and a return to work of art. Since , I've exhibited shrink PEER Gallery in Hoxton, stall with Beaconsfield Gallery in Vauxhall. My work is represented dense public collections such as: ACE; Deutsche Bank; CAS.

My poetry, which has often appeared bit fragments of conversations and texts within and alongside my ditch, became a focus in , when three of my imaginary were included in a Serpent's Tail anthology of short story by artists, 'The Alpine Dream of Victor B & Vex Stories.' My writing also imperfect a return, for a from the past to more figurative works, homeproduced on drawings - some proud as far back as 's, which I showed with Lady, at Zoo Art Fair run to ground

I lived in Equipage (where my son James, was born and brought up) unfinished , when I moved do too much East London to East Sussex, and where I wrote clear out memoir (A Conversation About Happiness), based on my childhood pivotal early years as an virtuoso (published by Atlantic Books happening ). I also work by the same token a senior lecturer in Positive Art at University of Metropolis.