Curriculum Vitae

Corporate and Public Commissions
Colour Consultancy
Product Design
Exhibitions and Trade Fairs
Education
Public Collections And Private Collectors
Galleries Where Stocked

Contact Information

Studio 52 - Clink Street Studios - 1 Clink Street
Soho Wharf - London - SE1 9DG
t/f: +44 020 7357 7101
email: fifth@ptolemymann.com
website: ptolemymann.com

Corporate, Public & Private Commissions

May 2009 ASHBURTON COURT COMMISSION
10 artworks for Hampshire County Council Head office
Sep 2008 ST MARY'S HOSPITAL COMMISSION - PADDINGTON
Series of large panels for the ‘Save the Baby’ unit. Commissioned by Lesley Regan.
Aug 2008 VERTEX COMMISSION
Atrium installation for Savills with Art For Offices. Chineham Court, Basingstoke, UK.
Jan 2008 FEILDEN + MAWSON ARCHITECTS COMMISSION
3 large reception artworks for Architects office in Somerset House, London.
Nov 2007 CANDOVER COMMISSION
Architectural Installation at Old Bailey Office, London.
Aug 2007 HILTON HOTEL PARK LANE – WITH THE MANSER PRACTICE
Series of 12 art works for Brasserie.
Feb 2007 COMMISSION FOR MORE LONDON – WITH ART 4 BUSINESS
Series of 7 artworks for new office space, More London.
Nov 2006 HILTON GENEVA – LOBBY ARTWORKS
A series of five panels in collaboration with MFC Art Consultants and Hirsch Bedner Associates.
Summer 2006 KING’S MILL & MANSFIELD HOSPITAL – COLOUR FAÇADE SPECIFICATION
Colour consulting to implement colour on the façade of NHS Trust Hospital in Nottinghamshire
     
August 2006 GLAXO SMITH KLINE COMMISSION
Eight wall pieces for GSK. 7 x 2.5m in collaboration with Art For Offices
     
March 2006 DRAGON COMMISSION
Seven panels for the boardrooms of Dragon Brands, London.
     
Jan 2006 THE PRIDE OF HAWAII CRUISE SHIP
Commission for 6 panels for Star Cruises in collaboration with SMC DESIGN, London.
     
July 2005 KPMG MANCHESTER
Series of eight panels for reception space, Manchester.
     
Jan 2005 PORTMAN HOUSE COMMISSION
For Land Securities. 3.5 x 1.5m Artwork made up of six panels, 4 depths. London.
     
August 2004 FRONTIER ECCONOMICS COMMISSION
With Art for Offices. 7 panels for reception space. London.
     
May 2004 BACON HEWITT WOODROW COMMISSION
With Art Contact. 11 Woven panels. More London, London.
     
Feb. 2004 ART FOR OFFICES
Commission for Tudor Gables. Hertfordshire.
     
Autumn 2003 COMMISSION FOR NEW OPEN UNIVERSITY LIBRARY BUILDING
Series of 15 panels commissioned by Art for Offices. Milton Keynes. UK.
     
Autumn 2003 COMMISSION FOR LAND SECURITIES AT MORGATE HALL.
Series of six panels, rug design and interior advice.
     

Aug 2002 -
Aug 2003

QUEEN MARY 2 CRUISE SHIP
Series of 22 Panels for the Canyon Ranch Spa on board QM2 Cruise ship.
Commissioned for Cunard by Onderneming and Kunst.
     
April 2003 ART FOR OFFICES
Private Black and White Commission. Hertfordshire.
     
Aug. 2002 THOMAS SWANN COMMISSION
Parliament View, London.
     
March 2002 DELTA COMMISSION
For Art Contact. Kings Road, London.
     
Feb 2002 HALCYON WHARF COMMISSION
For Berkeley Homes and Stock Woolstencroft Architects. London.
     
Jan 2002 Commission for Ebner-Landy. London.
     
Dec 2001 OFER COMMISSION
'From Night to Day'. Bney Zion, Israel.
     
Sept 2001 CLAUDE UPPENBERG COMMISSION
Private commission. Stockholm, Sweden.
     
August 2001 BANK OF IRELAND
Commission for Satellite Office in Cheltenham.
     
May 2001 KPMG CORPORATE FINANCE
Commission for Salisbury Square. London.
     
April 2001 WISE COMMISSION
Series of sliding screens in association with Huw Owen Architects. London.
     
Jan 2001 TYLER MANDIC COMMISSION
Architectural installation in private house. London.
     
Dec 2000 Gatwick Conference Centre
Commission for GAA Associates. Gatwick Airport, England.
     
Nov 2000 Bowater House Commission
Commission for Land Securities. Knightsbridge, London.
     
July 2000 Kings House Commission
Commission for Land Securities property developers, Haymarket, London.
     
June 2000 Kpmg Cisco Alliance Commission
'Colour, movement and Line'. Stockley Park, Middlesex.
     
March 2000 Old Burlingtion Street Commission
Commission for land securities, London.
     
May 1999 Coventry Cathedral Commission
Short-listed for the Millennium Vestal Vestment commission for Coventry Cathedral.
     
Jan-
March
1999 Solution Centre Commission
Commission for KPMG Reading. UK.
     
July 1998 Midnight Transfer Reception
Commission for Film Post Production Facility, Soho, London.
     
May 1998 "Sun Spectrum" an Architectural Installation
With Graham Mortimer, Architect.
Commission for SLC Head Office, Basingstoke, U.K.
     
Feb. 1998 McLintock Commission
Commission for dining room at KPMG Accountants, Salisbury Square, London.
     
Aug. 1997 SLC Asset Management
With Graham Mortimer, Architect.
Commission for Gate House, Farringdon Street, London.
     
May 1996 KPMG Commission
Commissioned to weave a Textile Art Piece called "Seven Countries". Conway House, Dorset Rise, London.

Colour Consultancy

2008 RESIDENTIAL APARTMENT BLOCK EXTERNAL FAÇADE COLOUR SCHEME
Project for Stanton Williams Architects, London
2008 PRESTON CARK PARK COMPETITION
Colour specification for Stanton Williams Architects.
2008 COLOUR SPECIFICATION FOR HEALTHCARE CENTRE - LONDON
Collaboration with Studio RAN Architects. Internal and external colour schemes.
2007-8 PFI HOSPITAL PROJECT – IN DEVELOPMENT
Internal Colour specification, Colour way finding strategy and external façade colour specification.
2006-7 KING’S MILL & MANSFIELD HOSPITAL – COLOUR FAÇADE SPECIFICATION
Colour consulting to implement colour on the façade of NHS Trust Hospital in Nottinghamshire.

Product Design

2008-9 PTOLEMY MANN FOR CHRISTOPHER FARR – ‘CLOTH’ DESIGN & RUG COLLECTION
Range of rug and textile designs for production with Christopher Farr.
2007-8 TEROFORMA USA – TABLE WARE DESIGN – IN DEVELOPMENT
Fine Bone China dinner service pattern and Table linen design.
2007-8 PTOLEMY MANN – RUG COLLECTION
Range of Architecturally inspired rug designs for production with Rugmaker.com
2007 LONDON OVERGROUND – SEATING DESIGN PROJECT
Shortlisted for Moquette seating design.

Exhibitions and Trade Fairs

June 2009 SIGNIFICANT COLOUR @ ARAM GALLERY
Curator and exhibitor, Aram gallery, London
     
May 2009 AN EYE FOR DETAIL @ RUTHIN CRAFT GALLERY, WALES
     
March 2009 MARGO SELBY GALLERY SHOWCASE
     
May 2008 STROUD TEXTILE FESTIVAL
Exhibitor in 'Colour and Weave' and guest speaker, Stroud. UK
     
Sep 2007 HUE LINE AND FORM – CURATED BY PETER TING @ CAA. London
     
Oct 2006 ORIGIN – THE LONDON CRAFT FAIR
New fair at Somerset House, London with the Crafts Council
     
Jan 2006 THE LONDON ART FAIR 2006
Exhibiting with ADRIAN SASSOON - London
     
Sept 2005 100% DESIGN TRADE FAIR
Exhibitor. Earls Court, London.
     
March 2005 SCOPE - NEW YORK
NY Art fair with Le Salon for Art Collectors. Flatotel, New York. USA
     
Jan 2005 THE LONDON ART FAIR
Exhibiting with Adrian Sassoon. London.
     
May 2004 CONTEMPORARY CRAFTS AT KENWOOD HOUSE
Exhibitor at Kenwood House, Hampstead. London.
     
Feb. 2004 ‘COLLECT’. Art fair for contemporary objects @ the V & A Museum.
Exhibitor with Design Nation. London.
     
Feb. 2003 PTOLEMY MANN-TEXTILES & BOB CROOKS-GLASS
     
Oct 2002 CHELSEA CRAFT FAIR 2002
Exhibitor. London.
     
Aug 2002 ARTIST SPOTLIGHT @ GRACE BARRAND DESIGN CENTRE
Spotlight in Hampshire gallery.
     
May 2002 SOFA NEW YORK 2002
International Exposition of Sculpture Objects & Functional Art.
In association with CAA. Park Avenue. New York. USA
     
April 2002 SPECTRUM’ @ THE KIOSK PROJECT
One woman show. Site specific installation. London.
     
April 2002 CONSTRUCTION’ @ RUFFORD CRAFT CENTRE
Exhibition of constructed textiles. Nottinghamshire.
     
Jan 2002 'FROM THE SHADOW TO THE LIGHT'
Woven textile exhibition curated by Lesley Millar. CAA. London.
     
Oct 2001 CHELSEA CRAFT FAIR 2001
Exhibitor. Chelsea, London.
     
May 2001 SOFA NEW YORK
International Exposition of Sculpture Objects & Functional Art.
In association with CAA. Park Avenue. New York. USA
     
April 2001 FOCUS @ CONTEMPORARY APPLIED ARTS
Installation of series of nine pieces @ CAA, London.
     
Jan 2001 LE SALON FOR ART COLLECTORS
Exhibition with Vanessa Suchar. Elizabeth Street, London.
     
Nov 2000 Sofa Chicago
Exhibitor with Contemporary Applied Arts. Chicago, USA
     
Oct 2000 Chelsea Craft Fair
Exhibitor. Chelsea, London
     
Jan 2000 Art 2000 With Contemporary Applied Arts
Art Trade fair @ Business Design Centre. London
     
Dec 1999 Solo Show "January — December 1999"
Gary J Hawkes Gallery. London.
     
Nov 1999 Design Resolutions
Exhibitor. Royal Festival Hall. London.
     
June-
July
1999 New Member Showcase @ Contemporary Applied Arts
1 Percy Street, London.
     
July 1999 New Faces @ The Craft Council Shop @ The V&A
1 of four exhibitors at the Victoria & Albert Museum, Kensington, London.
     
June 1999 Living With Textiles
Exhibition at C2+ Lesley Craze Gallery, London.
     
Dec 1998 Selection Of Work @ Christopher Farr
Shop on Westbourne Grove, London.
     
Sept 1998 Showcase @ Craft Council Shop
Display at the Craft Council, Pentonville Rd, London.
     
Sept. 1998 100% Design - Design Trade Fair
Exhibitor with New Designers in Business, Earls Court London.
     
July 1998 New British Design - Book Launch and Exhibition @ HAUS
Exhibitor at HAUS, Mortimer Street, London.
     
Jan. 1998 Decorative Arts Today 1998
Exhibition at Bonhams Auction House, Knightsbridge, London.
     
Nov. 1997 Leslie Craze Gallery - C2+
Solo Exhibition. Clerkenwell Greene, London.
     
July 1997 Window Display for Oswald Boateng
Vigo Street, London.
     
June 1997 RCA M.A. Degree Show
Exhibitor. Henry More Gallery, RCA, London.
     
April 1997 Textile Exhibition - The Groucho Club
Dean Street, London.

ORIGIN - The London Craft Fair

     
Oct. 2006, 2007, 2008 Exhibitor. Somerset House, London.
     

100% DESIGN

     
Sept. 2005, 2006. Exhibitor, Chelsea, London.
     

CHELSEA CRAFT FAIR

     
Oct. 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000. Exhibitor, Chelsea, London.
     

SOFA CHICAGO - International Exposition of Sculpture Objects & Functional Art. USA.

     
Nov 2003, 2000 Exhibitor with Contemporary Applied Arts.
     

SOFA NEW YORK - International Exposition of Sculpture Objects & Functional Art. USA.

     
May 2002, 2001 Exhibitor with Contemporary Applied Arts.
     

Education

     
Oct.
-June
1995
1997
Royal College of Art
Masters Degree in Woven Textiles, London.
     
Sept.
July
1992
1995
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design
The London Institute.
B.A. Hons. Degree in Textile Design.
Specialization in Woven Textiles.
     
Sept.
-July
1991
1992
Maidstone College of Art and Design
Kent Institute of Art and Design.
Foundation Course (Distinction).

Public Collections And Private Collectors

KPMG, Land Securities, Midnight Transfer, Sun Life of Canada, Stephen Garrett, Anne Battye

Galleries Where Stocked

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