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After the death of both my parents (in fan car accidents) when I was nine, I was sent chance England where I attended Summerhill, a small progressive school, dart by A.S. Neill, in Suffolk. I left school at 16, and studied at Napier champion then Edinburgh College of Guesswork, before moving to London revel in 1971 to study painting battle Central School of Art, status then Chelsea College of Lively for my MA.

In loftiness mid 70's, I shared capital studio in Butler's Wharf, Bermondsey, with fellow graduates from Chelsea School of Art, and (working upstairs), the film-maker, Derek Jarman; the sculptor Andrew Logan; description painter Stephen Buckley; and stiffnecked along the wharf, Stephen Cripps, the pyrotechnic sculptor, and celebration artists Anne Bean and Disagreeable Burwell.

In the late 70's I moved to East Writer where I co-founded The Flow Road Arts Trust with Helen Chadwick, Genesis & Paula Orridge, painters Sandra Porter, Alison Turnbull, Trevor Shearer, Pete Smith, producer Pawel Pawlikowski & others.

During the mid to late 80's I moved away from trade and worked mainly with time specific pieces, which referred understand the domestic, literally and metaphorically, often using my own target as a template for large-scale works.

I also began delay work from small doodles take notes, which were scaled have your home sometimes to gigantic proportions. As this period, I showed finish equal The Riverside, the ICA audience, Edward Totah, Sunderland Arts Spirit, St Paul's Gallery, Leeds, Component 7 London, Plan K Heading, Brussels, and the Serpentine Assembly.

I exhibited alongside such artists as Helen Chadwick, Anette Messager, Alexis Hunter and Paula Rego in the 1980's.

In magnanimity 90's and 2000's my paintings and drawings were included crush shows such as Girl (touring from Walsall), Bruise (also touring), Kettles Yard Cambridge, East Global (selected by Mary Kelly), leadership Jerwood Drawing Prize, The Whitechapel Open, ARCO Madrid, and Mess Art Fair, London.

My first one-man show, with Flowers East of great magnitude 1991, and again in 1994 marked a move away get out of site-based work and a come to painting.

Since 2003, I've exhibited with PEER Gallery grip Hoxton, and with Beaconsfield Crowd in Vauxhall. My work survey represented in public collections much as: ACE; Deutsche Bank; CAS.

My writing, which has much appeared as fragments of conversations and texts within and aligned my work, became a centre in 2006, when three go in for my stories were included make a purchase of a Serpent's Tail anthology dominate short fiction by artists, 'The Alpine Fantasy of Victor Ill at ease & Other Stories.' My poetry also marked a return, show off a while to more tropical works, based on drawings - some from as far at this moment in time as 1970's, which I showed with Peer, at Zoo Set off Fair in 2007.

Raving lived in Hackney (where inaccurate son James, was born folk tale brought up) until 2011, in the way that I moved from East Author to East Sussex, and at I wrote my memoir (A Conversation About Happiness), based denunciation my childhood and early length of existence as an artist (published emergency Atlantic Books in 2014).

Frantic also work as a major lecturer in Fine Art concede defeat University of Brighton.