1973        Northern Young Contemporaries, Whitworth Gallery, Manchester, UK

1974        Peter Stuyvesant, Northern Artists, Sunderland Arts Centre, UK

1974        Recent Work, Northern Arts Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK

1974        Sculptors Attitudes to Drawing, Sunderland Arts Centre, UK

1975        The Condition of Sculpture, Hayward Gallery, London.

1975        Recent Work, Usher Art Gallery, Lincoln, UK

1977        Inaugural Exhibition, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield. UK

1977        Brian Thompson, Sculpture since 1976, Norwich School of Art Gallery, UK

1977        2 Northern Sculptors, AIR Gallery , London

1977        Sculpture, DLI Museum Durham, UK

1979        The British Art Show, Arts Council Touring Exhibition; Sheffield, Newcastle and Bristol.

1979        Spectro Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK

1980        XI Biennale de Paris, Museum of Modern Art, Paris.

1980        8 British Artists from the Paris Biennale, Third Eye Centre, Glasgow

1981        3 British Sculptors, British Council Touring Exhibitions to venues across the USA

1982        Northern Open, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK

1983        Works on Paper, University of Washington, USA..

1983        Drawing in Air, Sunderland, Bristol, Leeds.

1983        Sculpture and Drawings, Ceolfrith Gallery, Sunderland, UK

1983        Tyne Tees Northern Open, Sunderland Arts Centre and Tour

1983        Exposed to the Elements, Rochdale Museum and Ambleside, UK

1984        Forms in the Shadows, Turton Towers, Blackburn, UK

                 

1985        River Valley, Sited Sculpture, Vermont House, Washington, UK.

1985        Visages Contemporains de la Sculture en Europe, Musee de Maubeuge, France.

1985        Inaugural Exhibition, Newcastle Group 84, Sunderland Museum and Art Gallery, UK

1986        Open air Sculpture Show, Lincoln, Hull, Scunthorpe.

1988        Newcastle Group, Gronningen Municipal Gallery, Holland.

1990        The Northern Lights, Bergens Kunstforening, Norway and UK tour.

1991        Waterground, Sited Sculpture, Kirkley Hall, Northumberland.

1992        Hall of the Artists, Moscow.

1992        Tampere Art Museum, Finland.

1993        Works on Paper, Art Museum, Riga, Latvia.

1993        Group of Trees, Installation of Sculpture, Museum of Steel Sculpture, Ironbridge.

1995        Towards a Place for Art 1. Surikov Institute, Moscow.

1996        Artlanta, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle and King Plow Centre, Atlanta USA

1996        Towards a Place for Art 2. Surikov Institute, Moscow.

1997        Friends from the North, Newcastle Australia, touring to Penrith, Australia

1998        Socha a Objekt, Sited sculpture and exhibition Z Gallery, Slovakia

1998        Magnetic, St Louis USA, touring to Baltimore and UK venues.

1998        Portfolio, University of Western Sydney, Macarther, Australia

2000        Border Axis, Webster University Gallery, Vienna.

2002        Solid State, Burghley Sculpture Garden, UK

2004        Socha a Objekt, exhibition Z Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia

2005        Ironbridge, Sited Sculpture, Museum of Steel Sculpture, Ironbridge. UK

2007        Richland Creek, Sited Sculpture, Sculpture Trails Museum, Solsberry, Indian USA.

2008        Iron Working Drawings, Royal Society of British Sculptors Gallery, London and tour.

2009        The Newcastle Group 1984 – 2009, Northumbria University, Newcastle.

2009        Tracing the Invisible, University of Porto, Portugal.

2010        Glass North East, Houses of Parliament, London.

2010        Underground Railroads, Sited Sculpture, Sculpture Trails Museum,  Indiana,USA.

2010        Work from the Trails, Red Bank Gallery, Chattenooga, Tennessee, USA.

2010        Sunderland Creative Industries Launch, Institute of Contemporary Art, London.

2011        W.A.L.K. Seminar and Exhibition, Vardy Gallery, University of Sunderland

2011        Underground Railroads, Sited Sculpture, Sculpture Trails, Solsberry, Indiana, USA.

2011        Virus, St John’s College Oxford

2012        Transition2, Customs House Gallery, South Shields.

2012        Words on a Page – Conference presentation, Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere

2012        Frozen River, Sited Glass Sculpture, Wordsworth Trust Museum, Grasmere,

2012        Kith and Kin 2, National Glass Centre, Sunderland.

2012        Surveying Landscape, Otter Gallery, Chichester. UK

2013        Their Colours and their Forms, Wordsworth Trust Museum, Grasmere, UK

2013        Narrow Road Collection, Shangai Art Fair, China.

2013        Art Box – Wuppertal, Germany

2013        To Padon Monument, Sited Sculpture, High-green, Northumberland

2013        Walk On: 40 Years of Art Walking from Richard Long to Janet Cardiff. UK tour.

2014        Walking Poets, Wordsworth Trust Museum, Grasmere, UK

2014        Squaring the Sphere, Ironbridge Fine Arts, Ironbridge UK

2015        Sands of Time, The Atkinson, Southport UK

2015        Mountain Arts Festival, Rheged, Cumbria UK

2016        Mountain Arts Festival 2, Rheged, Cumbria UK

2016        Snowdon 7 Ways Up, Wordsworth Trust Museum, Grasmere

2016        Capability Brown- Digital Interpretations, Weston Park, Shropshire, UK

2016        Wordsworth & Basho: Walking Poets, Kakimori Bunko, Itami, Japan

2017        Uncommon Ground, W.A.C. at The Royal Geographical Society, London.

2018        Altered Landscapes, Angus Hughes Gallery, London.

2018        Cheeseburn Sculpture, Stamfordham, Tyne & Wear, UK.

2019        Cheeseburn Sculpture, Stamfordham, Tyne & Wear, UK.

2019        Landlines, W.A.C. at The Royal Geographical Society, London.

2019        Landlines, W.A.C. at Morden Hall Park, London.