| 1940 | Wolverhampton |
| 1963 | BA Fine Art (Sculpture), University of Reading |
| 1965 | Special Effects model maker, Hawk Films, MGM |
| 1984 | Professor of Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, Metalwork & Jewellery, Royal College of Art |
| 2006 | Research Professor of Jewellery, Royal College of Art |
AWARDS
| 1976 | Crafts Advisory Committee, Bursary |
| 1978 | Western Australian Institute of Technology, Artist in Residence |
| 1978 | Japan Foundation, travel award |
| 1983 | Designers and Art Directors Association, award for photography |
| 1989 | Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, Liveryman |
| 1994 | Royal College of Art, research award |
| 1994 | Royal Society of Arts, Art for Architecture award |
| 2010 | Royal Designer for Industry |
PUBLIC AND MAJOR COLLECTIONS
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
Crafts Council, London
Die Neue Sammlung, Munich
Kunstgewerbe Museum, Berlin
Kunstindustrimuseet, Oslo
Leeds City Art Galleries
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris
Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Montreal
Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Cologne
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg
Museum het Princessehof, Leeuwarden
Museum of Arts and Design, New York
Museum of Fine Arts Houston
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum, Trondheim
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Power House Museum, Sydney
Royal Museum, National Museums of Scotland,Edinburgh
Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim
Science Museum, London
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, London
SOLO AND JOINT EXHIBITIONS WITH WENDY RAMSHAW (*)
| 1973 | American Institute of Architects, Philadelphia* |
| 1973 | Goldsmiths’ Hall, London* |
| 1974 | New Jewellery, Arnolfini, Bristol |
| 1975 | Recent Acrylic Jewellery and Body Forms, Crafts Council Gallery, London |
| 1976 | Jewellery and Jewellery Projects, Oxford Gallery |
| 1977 | Bodyline: Superstructure, Arnolfini, Bristol |
| 1978 | National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne* |
| 1979 | Electrum Gallery London |
| 1980 | Galerie am Graben, Vienna* |
| 1981 | Improvisations, Electrum Gallery, London |
| 1982 | Helen Drutt Gallery, Philadelphia |
| 1986 | Jewellery and Sculpture, City Art Gallery Leeds |
| 1986 | Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam |
| 1987 | Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus* |
| 1987 | Ramshaw/Watkins:Schmuck/Jewellery, Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim* |
| 1989 | Xingu, Kunstindustrimuseet Oslo |
| 1990 | Xingu, City Art Gallery Birmingham |
| 1993 | Jewellery Strategies, Mikimoto Hall, Tokyo |
| 2003 | Encounters, Blackwell, the Arts and Crafts House, Cumbria |
| 2008 | Ruthin Craft Centre, Wales |
| 2008 | Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus Hanau |
| 2009 | Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim |
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
| 1967 | British Design, Council of Industrial Design travelling show |
| 1968 | British Crafts Centre, London |
| 1971 | Electrum Gallery, London |
| 1974 | Collab 74, Philadelphia Museum of Art |
| 1975 | British Design, Palace of Fine Arts Mexico City |
| 1975 | New Materials in Design, Science Museum London |
| 1976 | Jewellery in Europe, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Victoria & Albert Museum |
| 1977 | Schmuck 77 – Tendenzen, Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim |
| 1980 | International Jewellery 1900 – 1980, Künstlerhaus Vienna |
| 1982 | The Maker’s Eye, Crafts Council London |
| 1984 | Contemporary Jewellery, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto and Tokyo |
| 1984 | Cross Currents, Power House Museum Sydney |
| 1986 | British Art – British Design, Künstlerhaus Vienna |
| 1987 | Schmuck – Zeichen am Körper, Francisco Carolinum Linz |
| 1987 | Joieria Europea Contemporánia, Fundacio Caixa de Pensions, Barcelona |
| 1989 | European Metal – Jewellery and Objects, Perth International Crafts Triennial |
| 1989 | Ornamenta I, Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim |
| 1989 | Jewelry : Means : Meaning, University of Tennessee Knoxville and USA tour |
| 1990 | Image and Object/New British Design, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris |
| 1990 | The Contemporary Jewel in Europe, Espace – Partenaires, Brussels |
| 1991 | Europäisches Kunsthandwerk, Haus der Wirtschaft, Stuttgart |
| 1991 | SchmuckStücke – Der Impuls der Moderne in Europa, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg and touring |
| 1993 | Facet 1 International Jewellery Bienniale, Kunsthal Rotterdam |
| 1994 | A New Century in European Design, Japan Broadcasting Corporation, Tokyo and touring |
| 1995 | Schmuckkunst der Moderne Grossbritannien, Landesmuseum Mainz |
| 1996 | Jewellery in Our Time, Crafts Council London |
| 1998 | Objects of Our Time, American Craft Museum, New York |
| 1998 | Jewellery Moves, Royal Museum, National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh |
| 2000 | The Ego Adorned – 20th Century Artists’ Jewellery, Koningin Fabiolazaal Antwerp |
| 2001 | Radiant Geometries, American Craft Museum, New York |
| 2005 | Transformations’: The Language of Craft, National Gallery of Australia |
| 2006 | Lucca Preziosa 2006, Villa Bottini, Lucca |
| 2009 | Creation II, Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, London |
| 2012 | Unexpected Pleasures, Design Museum, London |
| 2013 | Pop Art Design, Barbican, London |
| 2015 | A Sense of Jewellery, The Goldsmiths Centre, London |
BOOKS
| 1994 | The Best in Contemporary Jewellery. Quintet / Batsford / Rotovision |
| 1997 | A Trial of Virtue – The Jewellery of Onno Boekhoudt. Groninger Museum |
| 1999 | A Design Sourcebook: Jewellery. New Holland |
| 2000 | The Paper Jewelry Collection. Thames & Hudson |