CHRONOLOGY
1950 Born Colnbrook, Buckinghamshire (England)
1969-70 Newcastle College of Art and Design (Northumbria)
1970-73 Canterbury College of Art and Design (Kent)
 
INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS
1978 Greenwich Theatre Gallery (London)
1986 Curwen Gallery (London)
1988 Land and Surface, Curwen Gallery (London)
1993 Ground, University of Central Lancashire (Preston)
1995 Base Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)
1998 Artist in Residence, Grizedale Forest (Cumbria)
1999 Visible Air, Grizedale Forest Gallery (Cumbria)
   
  TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
1987 Applied Impressions, Turnpike Gallery (Leigh, Manchester / with Paul Ryan)
1990 Meta Incognita (Brantwood, Cumbria/with John Hodkinson)
1991 Edgin' the Blues, Preston Polytechnic (Preston/with John Hodkinson)
1992 Earth Murmurs. Curwen Gallery, London (with Russell Mills).
1994 Between Two Lights, Charlotte Mason College of Lancaster University (Cumbria) Ambleside Mountain Festival (installation of sound, constructions, and paintings with Russell Mills)
1994-95 MW Undark, Ambleside (Cumbria / with Russell Mills)
1996 Looming, Eagle Gallery (London / with Russell Mills)
1996 Measured in Shadows Installation (with sound) Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery (Carlisle / with Russell Mills)
1997 Measured in Shadows Installation (with sound), Guiness Hopstore (Dublin / with Russell Mills)
Nature's Teeth, The Sampling at Dovenest, (Ambleside, Cumbria / with Russell Mills)
Spirit (Installation of sound, sculpture and light), Grizedale Forest (Grizedale, Cumbria / with Russell Mills)
Filters: Past Presents, Gallery El Ajibe, (Arrecife, Lanzarote / with Russell Mills)
Musica Visuale; Stage sets and lighting for visual music (with Russell Mills)
Ex Libris (Installation of sound, sculpture and light), Sun Street Studios (Lancaster / with Russell Mills)
1998 The Gradual Instant, Dean Clough Galleries (Halifax / with Russell Mills)
1999 Art Barns: After Kurt Schwitters, Lentworth House Farm (Abbeystead / with Russell Mills)
2000 Sonic Boom . "Mantle" Installation (Hayward Gallery, London / with Russell Mills)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1969 Pernod Northern Arts (Newcastle-upon-Tyne)
1972 Northem Young Contemporaries (Manchester)
1976 Whitechapel Open Exhibition (London)
1977 Hope Mill Gallery (Kent) Gallery Zygos (Cyprus)
1983 Woodlands Gallery (Greenwich, London)
1985 Small Works, Curwen Gallery (London)
  Foot Show, Adam Gallery (London)
l986 Whitechapel Open Exhibition (London)
  International Contemporary Art Fair (Olympia, London/ with Curwen Gallery)
  Smallworks, Curwen Gallery (London)
1987 Curwen in Chicago, Curwen Gallery (London)
  Chicago International Art Exposition (USA / with Curwen Gallery)
  Kurt Schwittes Memorial Wreath, Abbot Hall Gallery(Cumbria)
  Shintin, Kurt Schwitters Memorial Sculpture, Grizedale Forest (Cumbria/ with Russell Mills, for Northem Art)
  South London Open Exhibition (London)
  Eight by Eight, Curwen Gallery (London)
1988 Curwen in Chicago, Curwen Gallery (London)
  Chicago International Art Exposition (USA / with Curwen Gallery)
  Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition (London)
  Gallery Artists, Curwen Gallery (London)
1989 Art London (Olympia/ with Curwen Gallery)
  Chicago International Art Exposition (USA/ with Curwen Gallery)
  Abstraction 89, Cleveland Bridge Gallery (Bath)
1990 Chicago Intemational Art Exposition (USA / with Curwen Gallery)
  Art London (Olympia / with Curwen Gallery)
  Portfolio 1990, Curwen Gallery (London)
  Ember Glance: The Permanence of Memory, Space FGO-SOKO (Tokyo, Japan / installation of sound, sculpture and light with Russell Mills and David Sylvian)
1991 Chicago International Art Exposition (USA / with Curwen Gallery)
1992 Art 23/92 Basel (Switzerland /with Curwen Gallery)
  Chicago International Art Exposition (USA / with Curwen Gallery)
1993 Ember Glance: The Permanence of Memory (Fragments) Architectural Association (London)
  4 X 4, University Gallery, University of Northumbria (Newcastle-upon-Tyne)
1994 National Gardens, Oddfellows Gallery (Kendal, Cumbria)
  Shelg Life, Eagle Gallery (London)
  Tullie House Open, Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery (Carlisle)
  2 X 2, University Gallery, University of Northumbria (Newcastle)
1995 International Contemporary Art Fair (Yokohama, Japan/ with Base Gallery)
1996 Soundings: Sub Rosa, Green Park Station Vaults, Baths, installation for Bath Festival of Music and Architecture (with Hywel Davies and Russell Mills)
Tarns and Waterfalls of Cumbria, Oddfellows Gallery (Kendal, Cumbria)
1997 C03, Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery (Carlisle)
 
PUBLICATIONS
1990 Ian Walton / Russell Mills, Art Random,Kyoto Shoin, Japan
1996 Looming (with Russell Mills) limited edition handmade book, boxed (Dinosour Press / Eagle Gallery)
  Measured in Shadows (with Russell Mills) limited edition catalogue with CD, boxed
 
  COLLECTIONS
 

Public Collections: The Tate Gallery, London

Private Collections: Canada, England, France, Cyprus, Japan, USA, Germany