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March 2021: A recording of the opening night event for my online exhibition CROW & HANDS: RECENT WORK can be seen on my YouTube channel. It lasts 1 hour and includes a Q & A conducted by Chicago-based artist/curator Joanne Aono.
October 2020: I gave a 1 hour artist's talk as part of my online exhibition at West Shore Community College, Michigan

2019-2020

Beginning in 2019, I began work on a new series of oil paintings, where I take the coal-mining imagery and develop the elements slightly differently. The crow and the hands reaching out to them evoke memories of birds on rooftops during rainstorms, my grandfather hunting animals at night on the moorlands of Northumberland, a fallen man in a coalmine reaching up for help.

2017

Two of my handmade books have been acquired by the Joan Flasch Artist's Book Collection, School of the Art Institute, Chicago. This is one of the most renowned collections of artists' books in the United States. Below (from left): Coal, multimedia collaged accordion book; Industrial, etchings folded into interleaved slit accordion.​

2016

In September, I exhibited a diorama called COALTOWN, plus associated sculptures, at Terrain Exhibitions in Oak Park, IL:
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​A small motorized sculpture that I created for my solo show last year was on display at Chicago's Hyde Park Art Center, February-May, 2016, as part of artist Sabina Ott's monumental installation Who Cares for the Sky? See the following video for a quick tour:

2015

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Solo show, April-May 2015

A solo show of my recent work, titled "A History of Coal," at Corner, a newly opened exhibition space in Chicago.

New City, a respected Chicago publication, published a RECOMMENDED review of the exhibition.