Studied Painting at Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg and The Royal College of Art, London.

• MA in Printmaking at Hochschule für Bildende Kunst, Braunschweig.
• 1987 lecturer at University of Nigeria, Nsukka.
• 2000 Diploma in Ceramics at City Lit, London.
• 2015/12/11/10 shortlisted for The Jerwood Drawing Prize.
• 2013 visiting professor at Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing and at Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts in Xi’an, China.
• Currently teaching at The National Gallery and City Lit in London.
• 2017 /2018 /2019 / 2022/2023 Artist residency at Opificio della Rosa, in Montefiore Conca, Italy.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

• 2021   Galerie Inga Kondeyne, Berlin
• 2017   Galerie Inga Kondeyne, Berlin
• 2017   Imprints – Galerie,  Crest, France
• 2016   Mercer Chance Gallery, London
• 2004   Galerie Kleindienst, Leipzig
• 2003   Allgemeiner Kosumverein, Braunschweig
• 1999   Galerie Kleindienst, Leipzig
• 1997   Christopher Hull Gallery, London
• 1992   Square Gallery London
• 1989   Pomeroy Purdy Gallery, London
• 1989   Galerie Oeverman, Frankfurt
• 1983   Galerie Nicaise, Paris
• 1982   Galerie KK, Braunschweig
• 1981   Kunstverein Bayreuth

GROUP SHOWS

 

 

 

2023   Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair,

winner of the Woolwich Contemporary Prize

2023   London Original Print fair with Verbatim, London

2022    Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair

• 2022   London Original Print fair with Verbatim
• 2022  Royal Academy London, summer show
• 2021   Royal Academy London, summer show
• 2020  ‘Raum, Fläche, Zeit’  with Anette Haas and Nele Gräber at Allgemeiner Konsumverein, Braunschweig, Germany
• 2020   ‘Black White Grey, Emanuel von Baeyer, Cabinet
• 2020   ‘Mai Linien’,  Galerie Inga Kondeyne, Berlin
• 2021     London Original Print fair online with ars,-tis, Germany
• 2020    London Original Print Fair online with ars,-tis, Germany
• 2019    London Original Print Fair with ars,-tis, Germany
• 2018    London Original Print Fair with ars, – tis, f. Germany
• 2017    London Original Print Fair with ars, – tis, f. Germany
• 2016    Thomas Bechinger – Thomas Gosebruch, Dialog, Galerie Florian Sundheimer, Munich
• 2015    British Contemporary Drawing, Museum of Xi’an Academy of Fine Art, China
• 2015    Jerwood Drawing Prize, London
• 2012    “
• 2011    “
• 2010    “
• 2012    1st International Biennale of the Arts, Santorini
• 2009    Wall Contemporary, London, ( now tintype gallery )
• 2009    Barrett Marsden Gallery, London
• 2009    Lubok Verlag at Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig
• 2008    Drawn Together, The Prince’s Drawing School, London
• 1999    Eagle Gallery, Emma Hill Fine Art, London
• 1993    International Print Biennale, Ljubljana
• 1992    Pomeroy Purdy / Print centre Editions, London
• 1991    Print Europe, Barbican, London
• 1991    Flowers East, London
• 1990    Pomeroy Purdy Gallery, London
• 1988    Pomeroy Purdy Gallery, London
• 1987    Goethe Insitute Lagos, Nigeria
• 1983    10 Deutsche Zeichner, Frankfurter Kunstverein

COLLECTIONS & PUBLICATIONS

1982 / 87  either one or both of the 2 sets of etchings to L.F. Celine’s novel “voyage au bout de la nuit”

is kept by  6 German  museums, The British Museum and  The Victoria & Albert Museum.

2016  The catalogue ‘blindfold’ published