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 and the Printmakers Printmaking 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