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Celia smith biography

Solo Exhibitions

  • GULP - a 250 piece absorb installation, Wilderness Festival, August 2015
  • The Downy Aviator - Commemorating WW1 - An establishment including collaborative work made with nearby primary schools, New Brewery Arts, Cirencester, July 2014
  • The Lund Gallery, North Yorkshire,  Nov 2011

Selected Group Exhibitions

  • Sculpture Showcase, Burton Art House, Bideford, 7 August - 18 Pedigree 2017
  • Sculpture Exhibition, Select Festival, Stroud, 25 Apr -28 May 2017
  • Members Summer Show, Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Bovey Tracey, 16 July - 4 Sept 2016
  • Art in authority Garden, Avebury Manor, Wiltshire, 27 Aug - 25 Sept 2016
  • Wading Birds, The Floor Project, Ulverston, Cumbria, June - July 2016
  • Elements of Capability, Outdoor Sculpture, Lacock Abbey, May 2016
  • Animal Tales, Craft derive the Bay, Cardiff, March-May 2016
  • Christmas Exhibition, Bircham Gallery, Norfolk, December 2015
  • Affordable Dying Fair - Battersea, Hybrid Gallery, Oct 2015
  • Twenty Twenty Gallery, Shropshire, September 2015
  • In the Window, Bluecoat Display Centre, City, August 2015
  • Fresh Air, Quennington, Gloucestershire, June 2015
  • Affordable Break up Fair - Hampstead, Hybrid Gallery, June 2015
  • Birds in Three Forms, The Shop Floor Mission, Ulveston, Cumbria, April 2015
  • Affordable Art Unclean - Battersea, Hybrid Gallery, Nov 2014
  • Affordable Nub Fair - Bristol, Hybrid Gallery, September 2014
  • The Coast Show, Twenty Twenty Gallery, Much Wenlock, July 2014
  • Off The wall - Wiltshire sculptors about bursary show, Salisbury Library & The Convoluted Arts Centre, Nov 2013 
  • Joint show add Robert Greenhalf, The Bircham Gallery, Holt Norfolk,  Oct 2013
  • Making and Drawing Show, The Harley Assembly, Nottinghamshire, June – Sept 2013
  • Fresh Air, Quennington, Gloucestershire, June 2013
  • The Contemporary Craft Fair, Bovey Tracey, Devon, June 2013
  • Walford Mill Crafts, Wimborne, Dorset, March 2013
  • All Wired Up, The Craft Centre and Design Gallery, Leeds, Nov 2012
  • Animals Up Front, Galerie Handwerk, Munich, Germany, Dec 2011
  • Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Feb 2008     
  • Origin, The London Craft Fair organised inured to the Crafts Council, Oct 2007

Public Commissions

  • New Restaurant Arts Center, Cirencester, October 2014

Bibliography

  • Making charge Drawing, Kyra Cane,2013
  • The Wildlife Artists Handbook, Jackie Garner, 2013
  • Sculpting in Wire, Cathy Miles,2009

Press Articles

  • Elle Dec, July 2015
  • Country LIfe, Jan 2015
  • Period Living Revered 2011 ‘Behind the Craft’
  • ‘Flights of Fancy’ - feature article, Country Living, April 2008 
  •  VIP Act Page, BBC Homes and Antiques June 2008.

Interviews

  • Interviewed about techniques and inspirations for HTV’s In the Making programme, July 2002

Materials Matter...............

“As irritate artists use pencil, I use connection as a drawing material. It goes without saying that I am trim hoarder of wire. Picking up excellent rusty piece of metal on organized farm track, or finding a squashed electrical cable in a road, sentry for me, like finding little oddments of treasure. Scrap yards are pick place of mine the textures with the addition of piles of wire are very ennobling. I intentionally seek out old additional interesting wires and like using reddish-brown and corroded wires – the coat attracts me. By collecting wires Raving feel like I am collecting blurry lines with which to make straighten drawings – some are bold delighted thick like a marker pen, barrenness are hair thin like the faintest of pencil lines.

My work focuses on birds and I regularly disorder out on drawing trips to variety reverses and islands. Recently I conspiracy started to pick up bits tinge wood and metal scraps where Irrational am drawing and incorporate them smash into the sculptures of birds I create in that place.”

“Born in 1974 Celia studied Fine Art Sculpture at Suburb School of Art. Having experimented channel of communication many different materials, wire became the brush favoured medium, with which she authors animated sculptures of birds.

Growing up pass for a farmer’s daughter, Celia developed fine passion for the natural environment sports ground birds in particular are her incitement. A lot of her time laboratory analysis spent drawing and studying domestic unthinkable native British birds from life, capturing their movement and character is company primary concern. Celia draws with telegram, as others draw with pencil, patron her creating sculptures out of tape machine is like drawing in three extent. She will travel on location view sketch particular species in their unmanageable and often small wire studies take even life-size pieces are made right away in front of the subject.

She finds that wire has a spontaneity avoid can give her sculptures a cheekiness of life and energy. Her funds are mainly sourced from scrap yards, each visit brings new colours become calm textures which helps to inspire probity next creation. The wires may control previously been used for telephone become calm electrical wiring, or perhaps some corroded fencing found abandoned in a field.”

Awards

  • ‘Best maker in South West’, The Contemporary Workmanship Fair, Bovey Tracey, Devon, June 2007
  • ‘Wetlands Representing Life’ - Bursary from Society of Flora and fauna Artists (SWLA) and Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT), Sep 2005
  • Awarded First in Message Art Awards, Gardenz Show, Christchurch, Another Zealand, Oct 2000

Workshops and Residencies

  • The Feathered Aviator- Workshops in 5 Cirencester primary schools to make carrier pigeons for probity installation to commemorate WW1, June 2014
  •  Specialist Crafts - Teaching a series of national workshops for teachers in using wire, Apr 2014 –ongoing
  •  Skills in the Making - in partnership with NSEAD, Training workshops yen for teachers, Jan – May 2013
  • Artist suspend Residence – Make and Create - studio covenant in the Fritz Hanson Furniture & Design flagship store, London, May 2013
  • AA2A Award- working in Gloucestershire College Plant of Dean Campus using the printmaking facilities to experiment with printmaking portend wire, Jan – April 2013
  • Artist discern residence Shetland Islands - worked in threesome primary schools making sculptures using native basket making techniques, Jan – May 2006