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.
Working in Britain's rural West Country, I explore indigenous country lore, both ancient and emerging. By integrating closely observed botanical and zoological studies with the rich metaphorical language of narrative traditions, my work reflects on our historical and changing relationships with the natural world. I am a resident artist at Bull Mill Arts, an artists' community established by Lord Bath on the Longleat Estate. My Wiltshire studio is on the banks of the lovely River Wylye and my Cornish studio is in a deep wooded coastal valley. My sketch books are filled with the flora and fauna of the surrounding landscape, water meadows, ancient woodland, open pasture 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 |
2000-2022 The Kings Road Gallery, Chelsea, London
2015-2022 David Simon Contemporary, Castle Cary / Bath 2001-2022 Bull Mill Arts, Wiltshire 2004-2022 Delamore Arts, Devon 2020-2021 Bath Society of Artists 2019-2021 The South West Academy 2018-2020 Messums Wiltshire 2015-2019 Article, Bath 2015-2018 Talos Art Foundry, Hants 2015-2017 Wine Street Gallery, Devizes 2011-2016 The Sculpture Park, Surrey 2002-2015 Stone Lane Gardens, Devon 2010-2013 Long and Ryle, Pimlico, London 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 |
membership |
publications |
2022 Beauty of the Beast, a collection of British Printmakers
complied by Alan Marshall, printed by Mascot Media 2021 A Catalogue of Failures: Issue 2 an independant publication conceived and designed by Alice Clough 2018 A Calendar of Trees, a collection of cards published by Birth Tree Project commissioned by Pens Salmon 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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