EDUCATION
1979 London University (UCL), BA (Hons) 2:1 Modern Iberian & Latin American Literature & History (MILARS)
1988 WSCAD (Farnham), BA (Hons) 1st class Fine Art, Painting
1989 Central St Martins, Postgraduate Painting Diploma
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
1986 Finalist, Winsor & Newton Young Artists Awards, Mall Galleries, London
1987 Young Unknowns Gallery, London
1988 The Art House, London
1989 ‘Celebration’ South Bank Photo Show, London
1990 ‘East Meets West’, East West Gallery, London
1993 ‘Identikit’ at Pixley Street Studios, London
1994 The Affordable Art Company, Connaught Brown Gallery, London
1995 Tecno UK Ltd., London – solo exhibition of paintings and rug designs
1995 +Kappa Lambda Rugs, London
'Colour', 'Urban Swing', 'Liquide', 'Point' and 'Ardennes' solo rug collections
Purves & Purves, London – solo exhibition of rugs
1996 ‘Dunkelbunt’ rug for Christopher Farr, London
1997 Private commission - rug for country house
2004 Ernst & Young, London – rug commission for executive reception
2007 Charleston Farmhouse, Sussex – Quentin Follies
Tent London’, Truman Brewery, London E1
‘Sleep’ Old Billingsgate Market, London EC3
2008 Charleston Farmhouse, Sussex – Quentin Follies
'Imagine' visual arts week, Honeywood House, Sutton
‘Tres’ at Olé, London SW15
2009 'Imagine' visual arts week, Honeywood House, Sutton
South London Women Artists at Dulwich Library, London SE22
2010 Dulwich On View : Paul Nash 'Elements' online landscape competition
Bankside Gallery, London SE1, with South London Women Artists
2012 'Then and Now' Free Painters and Sculptors at Royal Opera Arcade Gallery, London SW1
2013 'Works on Paper' with FPS at Espacio Gallery, London E2
'SEAM 4' at WAC Gallery, London SE1
Menier Gallery, London SE1 : FPS 60th Anniversary Exhibition
2014 Paintings & Pop @ no.43 : part of the SEAS Open Studio & Art Trail, Deal, Kent
Menier Gallery, London SE1 : FPS Open Exhibition
The Horsebridge Centre, Whitstable, Kent : group exhibition with South East Artists
2015 The Beaney House of Art & Knowledge, Canterbury, Kent
Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, London
The London Group Open, The Cello Factory, London
2016 Cupola Contemporary Art, Sheffield 'Art is a Lie that Reveals the Truth'
BEEP Wales, International Painting Prize Exhibition, Swansea & Wrexham
Royal West of England Academy 164th annual open exhibition
ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
2017 Painting [Now], Studio One Gallery, London
'Antennae' Angus-Hughes Gallery, London
Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, London
The London Group Open, The Cello Factory, London
Rye Winter Salon, Rye, East Sussex
2018 'Small Wonder' group exhibition at Will & Yates, Deal, Kent
AWARDS
2012 Juliet Gomperts Trust bursary
PUBLICATIONS/CATALOGUES
‘Contemporary Rugs’ by Christopher Farr, Matthew Bourne, Fiona Leslie – Merrell, 2002
'Drawing and Painting' by Kate Wilson - Thames & Hudson, February 2015
The 82nd and 83rd London Group Open, exhibition catalogues 2015,2017
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