CV
Education
2001 – 2004 The Art Academy – Diploma in Fine Art (Sculpture)
1993 – 1997 Oxford University – MA Hons Biochemistry
Awards
2023 Arts Council England Project Grant – Plastic Mountain (a participatory public art work)
2021 Appointed Fellow of the RSA – Royal Society for the encouragement of arts, manufactures and commerce
2015 Elected to Board of Trustees of Royal Society of Sculptors
2014 Named as one of the ‘175 Face of Chemistry’ to celebrate the 175th anniversary of the Royal Society of Chemistry
2010 Appointed Member of Royal British Society of Sculptors (ARBS)
2009 Awarded 2010 Brian Mercer Bronze Casting Residency (3 months in Pietrasanty, Italy)
2008 Awarded a 2 year Bursary by the Royal British Society of Sculptors
2007 Selected for the Tihany International Postgraduate Program, Hungary, in association with Goldsmiths College, London & The Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts
2006 Selected for the Studio Group 401 ½ Studios run by Michael Haynes
Commissions / Public Art
2023 Plastic Mountain West Norwood – temporary participatory public artwork funded by Arts Council England, Lambeth Council and Norwood Forum
2019 Shortlisted for the City of Leeds feminist public artwork commission
2018 Tonbridge School Commission: Barton’s Chair (4 meter hanging representation of the cyclohexane molecule made of human figures for new science building)
2018 B.E.A.F. Festival Commission: Layers of Bournemouth Rammed Earth Public Sculpture on Hengitsbury Head
2015 Finalist for First@108 Public Art Award
2011 Final shortlist (of two) for Clyde and Co St Botolphs Redevelopment Commission
2010 Art on the Edge Olympic Commission
Solo Show
2013 Life Forming – Pangolin London
Selected Group Shows
2024 On the Edge 2 – Ovada Gallery, Oxford
2024 Presence: The Figure in British Postwar and Contemporary Sculpture – Messums West
2023 Fifteen – Pangolin London
2023 On The Edge – Espacio Gallery
2021 Royal Society of Sculptors Summer Exhibition
2020 Gerald Moore Gallery – Environmental Crisis Exhibition
2019 Blenheim Walk Gallery – Feminist Public Sculpture shortlisted artists exhibition
2018 Gallery Pangolin – Sculptors’ Maquettes
2018 Pangolin London – Decade (celebrating the galleries 10 year anniversary with 10 artworks including DNA – Helix of Life)
2017 Good Nature – Candida Stevens Fine Art
2016 Order and Chance – Candida Stephens Fine Art
2015 First@108 Public Art Award – Finalist Exhibition
2015 Allied World 20 Fenchurch Street – solo showcase of work
2015 KPMG Canary Wharf – solo showcase of work
2014 Crucible 2 – Gloucester Cathedral
2014 ‘Mini-Crucible’ – Gallery Pangolin, Gloucestershire
2014 Kings Place Sculpture Trail – Pangolin London
2013 Christmas Show – Pangolin London
2012 Sculptors’ Drawings & Works on Paper – Pangolin London
2012 Sculpture and Sport: A Celebration for 2012 – Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
2011 Totem Body – The Crypt Gallery, St. Pancras Church, London
2011 Women Make Sculpture – Pangolin London
2011 RBS in Pietrasanta – Cloister of S. Agostino, Pietrasanta, Tuscany, Italy
2010 Christmas Show – Pangolin London
2010 ING Discerning Eye Exhibition – Mall Galleries
2010 Copy0909 – International Group Show
2010 Brian Mercer Residency Show – Royal British Society of Sculptors
2009 In the Mix II – Pangolin London
2009 IfyoudON’TLikeThewaYTHEShiPISruN… – Islington Arts Factory
2009 4 sculptors and a painter – The Gallery in Cork Street
2009 Women’s Art Exhibition – Fairfields Art Centre, Basingstoke
2009 Law Society Art Group 49th Annual Exhibition
2008 Royal British Society of Sculptors Bursary Show
2006-08 401 ½ Open Studio
2004 Diploma Show – The Art Academy, Southwark
2004 Group Summer Show – Mill Dene Sculpture Garden
2004 The Figure and the Face (Curated Group Show) – Orleans House Gallery
2002 & 2003 The Affordable Art Fair, Battersea
2002 Art in Action, Oxford
Residencies
2024 Visualizing Virology Artist-in-Residence– Vanderbilt Vaccine Center, Nashville, USA, 6 months
2024 STEM artists in Residence – Haileybury School, Hertfordshire, 3 months
2011 Pangolin London Sculpture Residency, Kingsplace, London (1 year)
2010 Brian Mercer Bronze Casting Residency, Fonderia Mariani, Pietrasanta, Italy (3 mnths)
Collections
In private collections in UK, Germany, Monaco, US and Australia
Briony Unveiling the Plastic Mountain in West Norwood, 6th August 2023
