AWARDS

2005 · Designer Bookbinders’ Annual Competition - Open Choice Book 1st Prize, The British Library, London

2000 · Designer Bookbinders’ Annual Competition - Hewit leatherwork award, The British Library, London

2000 · Blueprint prize (with Vitra design museum) - creative use of paper (’nature forms’), Blueprint, London

1999 · Designer Bookbinders’ Annual Competition - Highly commended, The British Library, London

1999 · Blueprint prize (with Vitra design museum) - creative use of paper (’tracing paper’), Blueprint, London

1998 · Designer Bookbinders’ Annual Competition - Finishing award, The British Library, London

1998 · Society of Bookbinders Competition - Highly commended, The Barbican Gallery, London

1997 · Designer Bookbinders’ Annual Competition - 2nd prize, The British Library, London

1996 · Paulig Craft Competition “Tahto&Taito” - Highly commended, Helsinki, Finland

1996 · Designer Bookbinders’ Annual Competition - joint 2nd prize, no 1st awarded, The British Library, London

1995 · Designer Bookbinders’ Annual Competition - Ted Womersley award, The British Library, London

1995 · Designer Bookbinders’ Annual Competition - Highly commended certificate, The British Library, London

1994 · Painting Masterpiece ‘Public’s choice’ - voted by public at juried fine art exhibition, Alajärvi museum, Finland

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EXHIBITIONS

2006
· ‘Beautiful British Books’ - Designer Bookbinders’ touring exhibition, City Museums in Ashikaga, Koriyama and Chiba, Japan
· Designer Bookbinders at ABA book fair - Olympia, London
· Covered - Beauty and Art in Contemporary Bookbinding, Flow Gallery, London
· Eastern Open - paintings at Bookends, King’s Lynn
· Letter & Leaf - exhibition of calligraphy and book arts, The National Print Museum, Dublin, Ireland
· ‘PTO’, Please Turn Over - exhibition of artists’ book, The Neo Gallery, Cumbria, UK

2005
· The Designer Bookbinders annual competition - The British Library, London
· Covered - Beauty and Art in Contemporary Bookbinding, Flow Gallery, London

2004
· Designer Bookbinders at the Bibliotheca Wittockiana - Brussels, Belgium
· BOOKS.04 Works of Imagination “Nature”, Noosa Regional Gallery - Tewantin, Australia
· Binding - open exhibition of photographic books - Picture House Centre for Photography - Leicester, UK
· Love - Finnish Designer-Makers’ (Taiko) touring exhibition - Finland Craft Museum - Jyväskylä, Finland
· Ajan kirjat - solo show of bookbindings and artist’s books - Rikhardinkatu Library - Helsinki, Finland

2003
· BOOKS.03 Works of Imagination “Water”, Noosa Regional Gallery - Tewantin, Australia
· 9th Wexford Artist’s Book Exhibition - Wexford, Ireland
· The Spirit of the Book - solo show of bookbindings and artist’s books - Vaasa City Library, Finland
· The Touch of Life (main exhibition) - Finland Craft Museum - Jyväskylä, Finland

2002
· Designer Bookbinders at ABA book fair - Olympia, London
· Designer Bookbinders in North America - touring in USA and Canada 2000-2002
· The Touch of Life (main exhibition) - Finland Craft Museum - Jyväskylä, Finland

2001
· Designer Bookbinders in North America - touring in USA and Canada 2000-2002
· The Touch of Life (main exhibition) - Finland Craft Museum - Jyväskylä, Finland

2000
· Designer Bookbinders in North America - touring in USA and Canada 2000-2002
· The Designer Bookbinders at Selfridges - London
· 2nd International Artists Books Triennial - Vilnius, Lithuania
· Myths & Legends - Oriel Myrddin Gallery, Carmarthen, Wales
· The Designer Bookbinders annual competition - The British Library, London

1999
· Book as Art - Berchtold Villa, Salzburg, Austria
· 5th Wexford Artist’s Book Exhibition - Wexford, Ireland
· The Designer Bookbinders annual competition - The British Library, London
· Cover to Cover (touring), international exhibition of artist’s books - Pori, Finland
· Hidden pages - solo show of bookbindings, Southfields Library, London

1998
· Global - international artists at Addison Wesley-Longman, Harlow, England
· The E.Clark Bookbinding Competition - The National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh
· Cover to Cover, international exhibition of artist’s books - Kankaanpää, Finland
· The Designer Bookbinders annual competition - The British Library, London

1997
· The International Bookbinding Biennale - St. Jean-de-Luc et Ciboure, France
· Nine Artist-Craftsmen - Lohja Museum, Finland
· The Designer Bookbinders annual competition - The British Library, London
· Wandsworth artists’ annual exhibition - London

1996
· 5th International Forum of Art Bookbinding - Montreal, Canada
· Paulig Craft Competition Exhibition of Finalists - Helsinki Design Forum, Finland
· The Designer Bookbinders annual competition - The British Library, London
· Wandsworth artists’ annual exhibition - London

1995
· Inviting pages - solo show of bookbindings and artist’s books, Vaasa City Library, Finland
· Wandsworth artists’ annual exhibition - London
· The Designer Bookbinders annual competition - The British Library, London

1994
· Painting Masterpiece ‘94 - Alajärvi Museum, Finland
· Young Ostrobothnian Artist ‘94 - Seinäjoki City Gallery, Finland

1993
· He heard a cornflower speak - solo show of paintings, Ruotsinpyhtää, Finland

1992
· Faceless - solo show of paintings and prints, Ruotsinpyhtää, Finland