Education and Training
St Andrews University, City of London Polytechnic, Central St Martins School of Art
and Design:
M.A., Certificate & Diploma (Art & Design), postgraduate studies
Solo Exhibitions 1995 - present
Births, Chimneys and Lightermen: Collecting Greenwich Peninsula Millenium
Square, North Greenwich, 2008
Words and Forgetting, King's Lynn Arts Centre, 2007
Lies and Belonging, Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, 2001
Walking on Eggshells, Yard Gallery, Nottingham, 2000
In the Picture, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, 2000
The International Occasional Museum, Living in a Material World, Coventry
University (with Julia Wilson), 1999
Worcester Collected, Worcester City Museum & Art Gallery, 1998
Mr & Mrs Walker Have Moved, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge (with Anne Eggebert),
1998
Natural Mystery, The Natural History Museum, London, 1996-7
The Magpie Instinct, Booth Museum, Brighton, 1997
The International Occasional Museum of Collecting Leicester University, 1996
Four Defining Absences, Museum of Mankind, London, 1995
Selected Group Exhibitions 1995 - present
In Their Own Words, Sheffield hallam University, 2007
Objects in Waiting, Sheffield Hallam University, 2006
Passionate Collectors Public and Private, The New Art Gallery, Walsall, 2006
- 7
EV+A, Invited, Limerick, 2006
Art out of place, CAN05, Norwich Castle Museum, 2005
Treat Yourself, Science Museum/Wellcome Trust, 2003 - 4
Sample, Embroiderers' Guild, Williamson Art Gallery, Dutch Textile Museum, Hall Place, 2003
Eisteddfod, St David's, Wales, 2002
Hygiene, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, group show, 2002
Julian Walker & Suky Best, Unit 2 Gallery, London, 2002
Housework, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, 2002
Host, Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, 2001
Up in Smoke, Nottingham Castle Museum & Gallery, 2001
ArtWorks for the World Health Organisation, Whitechapel Gallery; Charite,
Berlin; Harfnurborg, Iceland, 2000-2
New Contemporaries, Liverpool Biennial & Beaconsfield, London, 1999
PVA Artists using digital media, Bridport, 1999
Souvenirs, Museum Street, London (with the British Museum), 1998
Evidence, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, Touring Exhibition,1996
Terms of Exchange, Visionfest, Liverpool,1996
Quarrying, Towner Gallery & Museum, Eastbourne, 1995
Small Objects of Desire, City Gallery, Leicester, 1995
Identity, Towner Gallery & Museum, Eastbourne, 1995
Publications, Lectures, Residencies
"Treasure Chest", interactive guide to the John Ritblat Treasures Gallery at the British Library, 2004
Lecture at Sheffield Hallam University for Transmission series, 2004
"A New Map", a thinking families' guide to Painted Labyrinth: the World of the Lindisfarne Gospels,
British Library, 2003
The Best In Heritage conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 2002
"The Language of Encroachment" in Nature and Nation, ed. Eggebert &
Gould, Hastings Museum/Arts Council
"Acquisitions at the British Museum" in Consuming Ancient Egypt, Cavendish
Press
"Grave-goods and Teddy Bear Thieves", Inventory
"Acquisition, Envy and the Museum Visitor", in Experiencing Material Culture
in the Western World, Leicester University Press
"The Real Thing", Museological Review
"A Shower of Material Objects", Kontura magazine, Zagreb
Guest Lecturer, Leicester University and University of Kent, British Museum, Norwich
Castle Museum, University College London
"Artists in Museums", Paper at Museums Association Conference, 1996
Artist in Residence, The Natural History Museum, 1997
Awards
2002, Art & Work Awards (RIBA, Wapping Arts Trust & Gatehouse), Joint First Prize
2002, Juliet Gomperts Trust, research grant
2000, Elephant Trust grant for Walking on Eggshells
1999, LabCulture bursary, SW Arts
1997, Elephant Trust grant for The Magpie Instinct
1992, Ramlosa student design competition, second prize
1991, Owen Rowley Award, first prize
Works in Public Collections
The Natural History
Museum
London Metropolitan University
Worcester City Museum & Art Gallery
Wolverhampton Art Gallery
Royal Brompton Hospital
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
The Wellcome Trust
The New Art Gallery Walsall
