photography©Iona Nicoll
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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 |
membership |
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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