billie bond
Mediums Used
Billie Bond is a figurative sculptor who explores the human form through social and cultural identity, capturing a sensitivity that relates closely to her own experiences of life.
As a mother, aspects in the changes of motherhood stimulate her strong feelings of concerns in an ageing population of first-time mothers.
Billie continues to experiment with materials and processes to achieve highly crafted objects of aesthetic beauty.
My intent is to create human figurative works that are aesthetically engaging with social, romantic and realistic qualities. My narrative questions cultural and consumer identity and explores influencing factors.
It is important for me that modern technology, as well as traditional materials and methods, are used in the creative process.
My work examines how social and political history changes expected ideologies and the effect it has had on identity.
Sculptures by billie bond
Credentials
Qualifications
BA (Hons) 3D Design and Craft with a First Class Honors, from Colchester School of Art and Design
PGCE with Distinction,BA (Hons) 3D Design and Craft with a First Class Honors, from Colchester School of Art and Design
PGCE with DistinctionExhibitions
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Awards
2015 Short listed for Birth Rites Collection with A Link with the Past
2014 Firstsite Collectors’ Award for research
2013 Pure Arts Sculpture prize for ‘A Link to the Past’
2012 Distinction Licentiateship Society of Designer CraftsmanPublications
Modelling and Sculpting the Figure (2012) by Tanya Russell, London: AC and Black publishers Ltd.
Society of Portrait Sculptors 2014
500 Figures in Clay volume 2
Strarta,Modelling and Sculpting the Figure (2012) by Tanya Russell, London: AC and Black publishers Ltd.
Society of Portrait Sculptors 2014
500 Figures in Clay volume 2
Strarta
2012 PGCE Distinction
2011 Guest Lecturer at The Art Academy in London
2011 Colchester School of Art and Design. BA (Hons) 3d Design and
Craft. 1st class
2009 Sculpted on 4th Plinth Trafalgar Square, part of Anthony
Gormley`s One and Other.
2004 - 08 Interior decorator and mural artist
1991 - 04 Founded Billie Bond Designs, mail order business making
bespoke hand-painted children`s furniture.
1988 - 89 Backpacked round world.
1965 Born in Northumberland
Married with 3 children and lives in Essex
Residences
2015-2016 Gallery in the Garden
2012-2013 AA2A Chelmsford College
2011 Great Waltham Art Show
2010 Chelmsford museum
I have been inspired by broken ancient artefacts and forgotten civilizations and have used this notion as a vehicle to express my concerns of changing identity. I also use this notion to present my work as a sign of decay in a social context and to express the need for change.
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