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Sculptor, painter and poet.
Born in Hamilton, he studied at Gray's School of Art, 1976-81.
Since then he has held one-man shows and participated in several
two-man and group exhibitions throughout the UK.
His public commissions include Of Arms and the Man, Cadzow
Arcade, Hamilton (1985), the Font, Seat and Organs of the Body Plaques, St Nicholas Garden, Glasgow (1994-5), and A Tree of People, Cadzow Glen,
Hamilton (1996).
A recent private commission was for a gravestone for Lady Jane
Fford, Arran (1999).
Winner of the Benno Schotz Prize, 1983, he has exhibited paintings
and sculpture at the FAS, RGI, RSW, and SSA.
His work is represented in collections in the UK, USA, Italy,
Holland and New Zealand.
He published his first anthology of poetry, Caught in the Shrapnel,
in 1982, and has contributed poetry and illustrations to the New Edinburgh
Review and the New Arcadian Journal.
He lives on Arran.
Sources:
- Information from the artist;
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McKenzie (1999)
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- Sunday Mail, 18 April, 1999.
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