Grant will be displaying his pottery at "The Art in Gardens" at the Sheffield Botanical Gardens on September 5th and 6th 2009.

He will also be attending the Dore village show, Sheffield on Saturday 12th September 2009, where he will be selling his pottery

Grant Battle was born in Sheffield in 1973. At the age of 5yrs Grant was diagnosed with Leukemia and treatment started at the Sheffield Children's Hospital.

Grant had three years of treatment, which included chemotherapy and radiotherapy in the early stages, but unfortunately relapsed. After a year off treatment he had a very servere case of chicken pox and pneumonia and was in isolation at the Thornbury annexe Hospital Sheffield. A number of years passed when Grant relapsed again this time having Shingles, which paralyzed the left side of Grant's face, disfiguring his left ear and face, also causing 95% hearing loss to his right ear. Grant was treated in Llodge Moor isolation hospital in Sheffield as well as the Sheffield Children's Hospital.

Further years passed with relative good health until Grant was 11 years old, when he was put forward for a bone marrow transplant at the Sheffield children's hospital, this would give Grant the chance of a new life.

It was Grants sister who was found to be a good match for the bone marrow transplant

Grant had 6 hours of full body radiation before the new bone marrow was transplanted, and spent 4 weeks in isolation undergoing the transplant. The result was a success and grant gained good health and the following years passed until grant was diagnosed with cataracts at the age of 18 years. One cataract was removed at the Hallamshire hospital in 1989 the other was left until a later date.

In 1996 grant was diagnosed with a brain tumor after a brain scan at the Chesterfield Royal Hospital. The tumor was removed at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital in Sheffield but Grant endured many months of rehabilitation to recover.

Grant still has to go every 2 years for an appointment to see his Surgeon.

In 2002 grant was diagnosed with two Basel cell carcinomas (skin cancer) on his forehead at the Sheffield Hallamshire hospital. The operation was carried out at Chesterfield Royal Hospital and in 2006 had the second operation at the Sheffield Northern General Hospital by a plastic surgeon.

Grant had a skin graft, which failed to heal, due to blood vessels in Grants forehead having been reduced by the radiation treatment that Grant had years before. This caused the slowing down of the blood flow to the skin graft and it has take 5 months of dressing to the area for the wound to heal.

It is very possible that both brain tumor and skin cancer have been caused due to the high levels of radiation that Grant was given when under for the treatment of Leukemia.

Grant has to cope to day with a number of medical problems; he has to keep taking many different medications, which he will have to do for the rest of his life. But his determination to stride forward as his life is centered around, first his animals and then his ceramics.

In May 2009 Grant was diagnosed with two Basel cell carcinomas (skin Cancer) on the top of his head, (after being seen by his plastic surgeon, Mr Caddy, at the Northern General hospital in Sheffield) where he was previously seen two years ago and underwent surgery to remove one from his forehead. Grant will have to attend an appointment to make arrangements in September to undergo surgery to remove the skin cancer.