graduate in Fine Arts, he worked as artist and music producer for television. After working as independent curator from 1994 to 1999, he directed Spacex, Exeter, from 1999 to 2005, curating exhibitions and off-site projects and placing particular emphasis upon socially-engaged, context-based work. He also worked on multi-site projects like Patterns (2001) and Homeland (2004). For Liverpool Biennial he co-curated Generator (2004) and Hortus (2004). He has been Director of Arnolfini, Bristol, since 2005.