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Eggcentricity
Steel plate etching, 45x55cm



	Exhibitions: 2003	Una Mostra Collettiva, Perugia, Italy Arundel Trail (two person exhibition) Arundel Sussex Lessedra First World Print Annual Sofia, Bulgaria

	2002	Purely Print, Havant Arts Centre Portsmouth Open, Portsmouth City Museum Latitude, Portsmouth Historical Dockyard

	2001	Key Works, Portsmouth City Museum Purely Print, Gallery 73, Brighton 50 Hampshire Artists, Badger Press, Bishop's Waltham Impact, Print makers conference Helsinki Small Print Biennale, Morley Walk Gallery, London

	2000	Beyond The Level, Brighton Festival Portsmouth Artists, Portsmouth City Museum Etching, Farnham Maltings Gallery 'Hybrid', Expotec Festival of Science and Technology, Greenham Common '2D D', Guildford House Museum First Impressions, Salisbury Playhouse Festival of Printmakers Chongqing, China Art Space Open Studios, Art Space Portsmouth Hybrid, Westfield College London

	1999	First Impressions, Quay Arts Centre, Newport, I.O.W. Printmaking Plus, The Maltings Gallery, Farnham Society of Women Artists1999Westminster Gallery, London Arundel Trail, Arundel Mini Print International (travelling exhibition) Cadaques, Spain France & UK

	Employment	University of Portsmouth, School of Art Design & Media.1998 - Lecturer

Statement

The starting point for many of my images is the form of microscopic cellular plank tonic organisms. Invisible to the naked eye, when magnified many thousands of times in a scanning electron microscope, the structure of these microbes is revealed as highly organised, complex and astonishingly intricate and beautiful. In the development of these organisms, each divides to give essentially a replica of itself, a result achieved by genetically controlled cellular processes, the outcome of which is entirely predictable; an individual organism. In some respect this is analogous to the more traditional techniques of printmaking which I have employed to represent the plankton.

In the second phase of my work, I have used a variety of experimental techniques to overlay and progressively degrade the initial recognisable images. This, in contrast to the predictable is a far less controlled process with an unpredictable outcome; thus perhaps a metaphor for the processes of decay which overtake all living creatures after death.