Bio
EDUCATION
2018 awarded degree of PhD from Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, Great Britain
2013-2018. Oxford Brookes University, Oxford,UK, Social Sculpture Research Unit, conducts PhD research project with the title:
"Developing Processes for an Imaginative and Connective Engagement with Natural Landscapes"
1981-1983 Alanus University of Art and Social Sciences; MA in art education, 1983
1980-1981 Masterclasses of the sculptors Guenther Mancke and Wilfried Ogilvie
1977-1980 Alanus University of Art and Social Sciences, Bonn, Germany; department of sculpture; diploma in 1980
AWARDS AND GRANTS
1994. received the award "Outstanding Immigrant Artist" from the Ministry of Immigrant Absorption, Israel
1993 received grant for artistic research from the Gladys Mayer Memorial Fund, UK
ONE-MAN EXHIBITIONS
2020 Mirvach Gallery, Harduf, Israel
2015 The Gallery for Social Art at David Yellin Academic College, Jerusalem
2000 Elisabeth Soederberg Gallery, Acco, Israel
1997 The Studio, Kibbutz Mizra, Israel
1997 The New Gallery, Haifa, Israel
1994 Ruskin Mill Gallery, Nailsworth, Great Britain.
1991 The Bishop's Palace, Cathedral of Exeter, Great Britain
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS, SYMPOSIA, ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL PROJECTS
2020 "The Bees Garden" - design of experiential educational garden for the Biodynamic Bees Project, Harduf, Israel
2017 "Forest Clearing" - social sculpture project as part of "Art Convergence", Philmont, NY, USA
2017 "ökoRAUSCH" festival exhibition, museum for applied arts (MAKK), Cologne, Germany
2016 "Greening Clal", permanent installation as part of artist residency at the "Mirpeset", Muslala Urban Art Centre, Jerusalem
2015 "Green Campus" - proposal for the International Mediterranean School, Ramat HaSharon, Israel
2013 Artist Residency at Michael Hall School, Forest Row, Sussex, community environmental sculpture project
2013 design for therapeutic botanical garden for Lin Hospital, Haifa, Israel, ongoing project
2013 design for Environmental Sculpture, 'Mizpe Marcus', Haifa, Israel, not-realized project
2011 "Roundabout", community sculpture project, Kibbutz Harduf, Israel
2010 "Environmental Education Garden" -Design for the Harduf Waldorf School, Harduf, Israel - an ongoing project
2008 "Poultney River Entrance", community sculpture project, Green Mountain College, Poultney,Vermont, USA
2007 Initiator, Co-Artistic Director of the "Samania Park for Environmental Art", Israel - an ongoing project
2005 Water sculpture and garden design, Pisgat Achuza home for the elderly, Haifa, Israel
2004 Playground design for the Harduf kindergarten, Kibbutz Harduf, Israel
2003 "Murmur of the Valley", "Fete de Mai", international sculpture symposium, Gesves, Belgium
2002 Ecological water sculpture, Adam School, Jerusalem, Israel
2002 Water Garden, Beit Uri Home School for young people with special needs, Afula, Israel
2002 "I must go down to the Seas again", the 9th "Festival of Festivals exhibition, Wadi Nisnos, Haifa, Israel
2001 Ecological water garden, commission for Yabetz School, Zichron Yaacov, Israel
2000 Water course and entrance design, commission for the Harduf Waldorf School, Israel
2000 "Shifting Fences". "Binnenart" Environmental Sculpture Symposium, Kevelaer, Germany
1999 "Back to Earth", the 6th "Festival of Festivals" exhibition, Wadi Nisnas, Haifa, Israel
1998 "The House of the Spring", the 5th "Festival of Festivals" exhibition, Wadi Nisnas, Haifa, Israel
1997 Artistic Director, Project "Path of Peace" Environmental Sculpture Path, Kaukab Abu-ElHija, Israel
1997 Annual exhibition of the Israel Artists Association, Beit Chagall, Haifa, Israel
1996 The Beit Elisha Garden, Beit Elisha Home for young people with special needs, Harduf, Israel
1996 "Passageway", Sculpture Garden for Peace and Coexistence, Kaukab Abu-Elhija, Israel
1995 Amelia Arbel Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
1994 The Engineshed Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
1992 "Four Seasons Stone" - commission for the Cathedral Garden, Exeter, Great Britain
1990 Johnson Wax Kiln Gallery, Farnham, Great Britain
BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
since 2017 Lecturer for sculpture and drawing at Oranim Academic College, Kiryat Tivon, Israel
since 2013 Lecturer for sculpture, drawing, stage design and nature studies at David Yellin Academic College, Jerusalem, Israel
since 2003 Founder, director and senior lecturer for sculpture, drawing and art history, The Artways School of Art, Harduf
since 1994 Part time lecturer for sculpture and art history at the Harduf Foundation Studies Seminar
1994-2003 Part time lecturer for sculpture and drawing at the Harduf Waldorf Teacher Seminar
1994 moves to Israel, since 1997 resident of Kibbutz Harduf near Nazareth
1994 Residency at the Ruskin Mill Trust, Stroud, Gloucestershire, environmental sculpture project with young people
1992-2010 Frequent guest lecturer at the Rudolf Steiner Institute, USA
1989-1997 Regular guest lecturer at Alanus University of Art and Social Sciences, Germany
1996 Co-Author, "New Eyes for Plants - A Workbook for Plant Observation", Hawthorn Press, Stroud, Gloucestershire
1992-1994 Involvement with the founding of the Pishwanton Wood Project for Goethean Science and Art
1990-1994 Co-Founder and regular lecturer at the Life-Science-Trust for Goethean Nature Study and Art
1989-1994 Working as a free-lance artist and art instructor, based in Kent and East Lothian, Scotland
1984-1989 Full time lecturer for sculpture, drawing and art history, Emerson College School of Sculpture, Forest Row, GB
1984-1986 Guest lecturer for sculpture and drawing, Tobias School of Art, East Grinstead, Sussex, Great Britain
1984-1994 Resident in Great Britain
1977-1984 Residences in institutions in the realms of drug rehabilitation, special education, prison service and geriatric care (in Germany)
