BA hons in Fine Art at Durham University 1961 (Art department, Kings College,
Newcastle-Upon-Tyne).
ALA (Associate of Library Association) Postgraduate qualification in Librarianship,
North Western Polytechnic School of Librarianship/Library Association, London,
1970.

Foundation course teaching Sunderland College of Art, 1961. Supply secondary
school teaching (Hackney, 1962); temporary work in factories, shops, offices and the
Post Office.

Part-time art history lecturer at West Surrey College of Art 1975-81; and Middlesex
Polytechnic, 1975-81.
Associate lecturer at Middlesex 1981-92. Full-time senior lecturer at Middlesex Sept
1992, Reader in Art and Design History, 1993-99 (Retired in 1999, then a freelance
art critic and art historian. Resumed painting in 2005.)

MA History of Design Board of Studies; Specialized Award Programme Board of
Studies; Sets, School, and Interfaculty assessment boards and Progression
Committees; School of History and Theory of Visual Culture management team, Set
and SAP leaders Meetings.

undergraduates. Also developed modular scheme art-history modules on 'Realism'
and 'Art and mass media', \u2018British Art and Design 1945-70',and 'Visual Culture
Studies'. MA history of Design, historiography unit.

RESEARCH:
Academic research of a historical and critical character concerning the subjects of
modern art, mass media and design. See publications list.

Association of Art Historians annual conferences; Design History Society annual
conferences; conferences on Art Librarianship, Art Criticism, International
Television studies, Art & Television, Art Education, Art & Politics, Green Design,
Drawing (helped to organize this conference), Independent Group conference at the
ICA, 1989, Interactive Media conference ICA, April 1993; Paris Post-War
conference, Tate Gallery, 1993; Artist's Books exhibition/conference, Royal Festival
Hall, 1995. Design History Society Annual Conference, Royal College of Art &
Middlesex University, 1996.