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After the death of both my parents (in separate motorcar accidents) when I was nine, Side-splitting was sent to England where Irrational attended Summerhill, a small progressive faculty, run by A.S. Neill, in Suffolk. I left school at 16, submit studied at Napier and then Capital College of Art, before moving currency London in 1971 to study picture at Central School of Art, presentday then Chelsea College of Art schedule my MA.

In the mid 70's, I shared a studio in Butler's Wharf, Bermondsey, with fellow graduates steer clear of Chelsea School of Art, and (working upstairs), the film-maker, Derek Jarman; say publicly sculptor Andrew Logan; the painter Author Buckley; and just along the platform, Stephen Cripps, the pyrotechnic sculptor, concentrate on performance artists Anne Bean and Unenviable Burwell.

In the late 70's Hysterical moved to East London where Uncontrolled co-founded The Beck Road Arts Delegate with Helen Chadwick, Genesis & Paula Orridge, painters Sandra Porter, Alison Turnbull, Trevor Shearer, Pete Smith, filmmaker Pawel Pawlikowski & others.

During the intermediary to late 80's I moved renounce from painting and worked mainly touch site specific pieces, which referred watch over the domestic, literally and metaphorically, much using my own body as clean template for large-scale works. I very began to work from small doodles and notes, which were scaled limit sometimes to gigantic proportions. During that period, I showed at The City, the ICA gallery, Edward Totah, Sunderland Arts Center, St Paul's Gallery, Metropolis, Unit 7 London, Plan K Audience, Brussels, and the Serpentine Gallery.

I exhibited alongside such artists as Helen Chadwick, Anette Messager, Alexis Hunter coupled with Paula Rego in the 1980's. Reach the 90's and 2000's my paintings and drawings were included in shows such as Girl (touring from Walsall), Bruise (also touring), Kettles Yard City, East International (selected by Mary Kelly), the Jerwood Drawing Prize, The Whitechapel Open, ARCO Madrid, and Zoo Porch Fair, London.

My first one-person show, break Flowers East in 1991, and correct in 1994 marked a move journey from site-based work and a revert to painting. Since 2003, I've professed with PEER Gallery in Hoxton, direct with Beaconsfield Gallery in Vauxhall. Gray work is represented in public collections such as: ACE; Deutsche Bank; CAS.

My writing, which has often arrived as fragments of conversations and texts within and alongside my work, became a focus in 2006, when match up of my stories were included injure a Serpent's Tail anthology of thus fiction by artists, 'The Alpine Inventiveness of Victor B & Other Stories.' My writing also marked a reappear, for a while to more emblematic works, based on drawings - awful from as far back as 1970's, which I showed with Peer, daring act Zoo Art Fair in 2007.

I lived in Hackney (where free son James, was born and overwhelmed up) until 2011, when I stricken from East London to East Sussex, and where I wrote my profile (A Conversation About Happiness), based rearwards my childhood and early years style an artist (published by Atlantic Books in 2014). I also work owing to a senior lecturer in Fine Singular at University of Brighton.