OLIVIA CLIFTON-BLIGH
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I am a sculptor working in bronze, paper, wax and clay and a printmaker specialising in linocut and woodcut techniques.

I am a resident artist at Bull Mill Arts, an artists' community established by Lord Bath on the Longleat Estate. My work explores the rich metaphorical language of oral narrative traditions and our instinct for anthropomorphism and zoomorphism. My studio is on the banks of the River Wylye and my sketch books are filled with the flora and fauna of the surrounding landscape, the valley water meadows, ancient woodland, open downland and historic parkland. These notebooks have become my zoographical and narrative reference library for my studio work.

I studied Art and Art History at Goldsmiths' College (BA Hons 1990-93) and my work is exhibited in London and throughout the UK. I am a member of the Royal Society of Sculptors and a member of the Printmakers Council.

biography

Olivia Clifton-Bligh MRSS
born 1971

1990-1993     Goldsmiths' College, London University
                         BA Hons. Art and Art History

1989-1990      Brighton Polytechnic
                         Art and Design Foundation Course

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selected exhibitions

2018-2020      Messums Wiltshire
2000-2020     The Kings Road Gallery, Chelsea, London
2015-2020      David Simon Contemporary, Bath
2015-2020      Article, Bath
2001-2020      Bull Mill Arts, Wiltshire
2019                 The South West Academy 
2004-2018      ​Delamore Arts, Devon
2015-2018       Talos Art Foundry, Hants
2018                 Artichoke Gallery, East Sussex
2015-2017       Wine Street Gallery, Devizes
​2015-2016       Studio 53, Salisbury
2011-2016        The Sculpture Park, Surrey
2002-2015      Stone Lane Gardens, Devon
2010-2013       Long and Ryle, Pimlico, London
2007-2013       The Pewsey Gallery, WIltshire
2011-2012         The Cartshed Gallery, Dorset
2010-2011        Gallery Lefort, Bath
2005-2009     The Phoenix Gallery, Hampshire
1998-2000      CASA Studios, London
1998-1999        Fulham Arthouse, London
1996-1999        The Camberwell Gallery, London
1996-1998        The Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, London
1993-1998        Clockwork Studios, London
​1994-1995        The Tabernacle Gallery, London
  

awards

2020    Winner of the Bath Society of Artists prize for sculpture
2014      ​Winner of the Althea Wynne Sculpture Award
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membership

2000-2020      ​Royal Society of Sculptors
2019-2020        Printmakers Council

publications

2018       A Calendar of Trees, a collection of cards published by Birth Tree
​2016       Little Book Of Chickens, a collection of British printmakers 
         
      complied by Alan Marshall, printed by Mascot Media
2016      An Elegant Fowl, a collection of British printmakers
         
      complied by Alan Marshall, printed by Mascot Media
2014      Barn Owl, printmakers' cards by Art Angels Publishing
2010      A Birthday Book, limited edition, printed by Evergreen Press,
               hand bound by Kate Holland, illustrated by Olivia Clifton-Bligh

residencies

​1997      North Foreland Lodge, Artist in Residence
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