2010

Awarded Honorary Doctorate of Letters, Exeter University
Invited speaker, Noguchi Museum, Long Island USA

2009

Awarded Honorary Doctorate of Letters, York St John University

2007

Residency on Lolui Island, Uganda

2006

Winner of the Marsh Award for Public Sculpture ('Give and Take')
Invited plenary speaker, Bridges Maths/Art Conference, London

2005-2006

External assessor for the new Sculpture MA, Cork Inst of Technology, Eire

2004

Invited Artist, Gwangju Biennale, South Korea
Selector for the ‘Discerning Eye’ exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
Participant in the Taurenne Dialogues, France.

2003-2005

Member of the design team for the new education building, Eden Project

2003

Jerwood Sculpture Prize Judge, RWA Sculpture Open Judge
'Give and Take' large boulder work enabled by Sculpture at Goodwood

2000

Participated in Sculpture Symposium in Oggleshausen, Germany
'Womb Tomb' large boulder work enabled by Sculpture at Goodwood

1999

Awarded Honorary Doctorate of Arts, University of Plymouth
Participant in the architectural ceramics symposium, 'Creating theYellow Brick Road'

1994

Artist-in-residence at the Tasmanian School of Art, University of Tasmania and Australian lecture tour; aided by British Council travel award

1993

Visiting Lecturer in Sculpture at Royal College of Art, London

1992

Participated in Stone Sculpture Symposium in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan

1989-96

'Local Distinctiveness' project with assistance of Common Ground

1982-89

Visiting Lecturer in Sculpture at Brighton Polytechnic

1986-87

'New Milestones' project with the assistance of Common Ground

1980

Won Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Travelling Fellowship to study marble carving in Italy

1979

Worked on conservation of 13th-century sculpture at Wells Cathedral

1973-77

Studied at Bath Academy of Art

1954

Born Essex