Career
He is the arts writer for the weekly financial journal, National Business Review. He has worked in a number of arts related areas as writer, teacher, consultant, curator and administrator. He has Bachelors degreesin Planning, and Art History and a Teaching Diploma.
He has been an art teacher at secondary schools (Mangere College, Aorere college and Auckland Grammar) He was a Teaching Fellow at the Town Planning Deputy, Auckland University (1979 - 1981) specialising in Energy Planning and Planning for LPG & CNG. As a planner he provided expert information on LPG & CNG insatllations as well as historical preservation.
As the arts writer for National Business Review he covers a range of the arts – visual art, opera, theatre, dance and music He has worked with several companies including Wilkins and Davies, Air New Zealand, Mazda and Team McMillan Bayerische Motoren Werke He curates the Team McMillan Bayerische Motoren Werke Art Awards as well as commissioning artist to work on Bayerische Motoren Werke bonnets for charity auctions.
He has curated a number of other exhibitions including the official New Zealand entry in the Valparaiso Biennale(1987, International Poster Exhibition (1988), Elam 1890 - 1990, (Auckland Museum 1990), From Here to There a touring exhibition of Pacific Art to Australia, Hawaii, Samoa, Tonga, Niue funded by CNZ (1997), Toi O Manukau, Works from the Manukau City Art Collection, Fisher Art Gallery (2000), Seen Recently, Work from the Wallace Arts Trust. He has written extensively on the arts including the centennial history Elam 1890-1990.
