{"id":139,"date":"2024-11-26T17:07:55","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fortyyearproject.com\/?page_id=139"},"modified":"2025-06-02T12:43:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T12:43:23","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.fortyyearproject.com\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>MA Multidisciplinary Printmaking<br>Post Graduate Diploma Printmaking<br>Basic Skills Teaching Certificate<br>BA Hons Humanities<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tutor in intermediate, advanced and experimental screenprinting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Work in Collections<br>Private collections, UK and abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am a visual artist working in print.  After 23 years running Spike Print Studio at Spike Island, Bristol, first as an administrator, then studio Manager and latterly as Studio Director for 13 years where I introduced new and experimental access to traditional printmaking and championed an open access print studio for all, I stepped down at the end of 2023 to focus solely on my practice. I am working on long running projects which continue to resonate with me.  They appear to be following me into old age. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignfull size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"746\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fortyyearproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/keep-you-in-mind.-One-Chorus-Series--746x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-103\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fortyyearproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/keep-you-in-mind.-One-Chorus-Series--746x1024.jpg 746w, https:\/\/www.fortyyearproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/keep-you-in-mind.-One-Chorus-Series--219x300.jpg 219w, https:\/\/www.fortyyearproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/keep-you-in-mind.-One-Chorus-Series--768x1054.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.fortyyearproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/keep-you-in-mind.-One-Chorus-Series--1119x1536.jpg 1119w, https:\/\/www.fortyyearproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/keep-you-in-mind.-One-Chorus-Series--1492x2048.jpg 1492w, https:\/\/www.fortyyearproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/keep-you-in-mind.-One-Chorus-Series--scaled.jpg 1865w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 746px) 100vw, 746px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-content-justification-center is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-23441af8 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p><em>keep you in mind. One (Chorus Series)<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><em>screenprint, monoprint, cast iron powder on steel (white text)<\/em> <em>118cm x 84cm<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MA Multidisciplinary PrintmakingPost Graduate Diploma PrintmakingBasic Skills Teaching CertificateBA Hons Humanities Tutor in intermediate, advanced and experimental screenprinting. Work in CollectionsPrivate collections, UK and abroad. I am a visual artist working in print. After 23 years running Spike Print Studio at Spike Island, Bristol, first as an administrator, then studio Manager and latterly as Studio [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-139","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fortyyearproject.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fortyyearproject.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fortyyearproject.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fortyyearproject.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fortyyearproject.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.fortyyearproject.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247,"href":"https:\/\/www.fortyyearproject.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/139\/revisions\/247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fortyyearproject.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}