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Patricia Volk, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Sculptors, RWA. Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
She studied three dimensional design at Middlesex University and ceramics at Bath Spa University.
“I believe the juxtapositions of pure shape and colour create wonderful contradictions of power and fragility, stability and precariousness. Their tentative proximities, frictions and “rubbing against each other” reflect, for me, the relationships between human beings. The awkward but beautiful partnership between the strong and the weak, the delicate and the robust—creating sometimes a balanced structure, and at other times one that seems as if it might topple, but keeps standing. Just as relationships between people, in life.”
Patricia has a studio in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire.
COMMISSIONS:
The Water Deities (1997)
ArtSway, Sway, Hampshire (garden designer: Cleve West)
Audience and Muse (1998) Brewhouse Art Centre, Taunton
Work selected as Southern Arts Prize by Beckett biographer James Knowlson (winner of Southern Arts Literary Award 1999, for his book, Damned to Fame: A Life of Samuel Beckett.)
WORK PUBLISHED IN:
Evolver Magazine November-December 2023
D Kleine K No 105 – September 2023 – Editorial Pages 38-54
The Sunday Telegraph June 18 2023
The Telegraph May 1 2023
The Telegraph April 18 2022
The Times April 19 2022
Handbuilt Ceramics by Jo Taylor (The Crowood Press Ltd)
Contemporary British Ceramics: Beneath the Surface by Ashley Thorpe
50 Women Sculptors (Aurora Metro Publications)
‘An overview of women making sculpture from the 1880s to today, this book explores the work of 50 extraordinary women artists who have forged a name for themselves in a male arena, as well as breaking rules, pushing boundaries and inspiring us with their visionary creations.’
Town & Country Magazine (feature article – issue 30)
Blackqube Magazine 28/05/2022
Ceramic Review (feature Inspiration: Sculpture Vultures- Elaine Bolt – Issue 306)
The FLUX Review (Feature Article – Edition 3)
Artist Talk Magazine (feature article – issue 3)
Art Maze Mag (feature article – issue 1)
Ceramic Review (feature article – issue 282)
The New Age of Ceramics by Hannah Stouffer (Gingko Press Inc.)
Contemporary Ceramics International Perspective by Emmanuel Cooper (Thames & Hudson)
Ceramics for Garden and Landscapes ed. Karin Hessenberg (A&C Black, London, 2000).
Creative Ideas for Small Gardens by Anthony Paul (HarperCollins);
Classic Garden Features by David Stuart (Conran Octopus);
The Garden Sanctuary by Keith Mitchell (Hamlyn);
The Sculptor’s Bible by John Plowman (KP Books);
The Sculpting Techniques Bible ed. Claire Waite Brown (Chartswell Books Inc).
Ceramic Design Course by Anthony Quinn (Barron’s)
Exhibitions
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
2024
MULTIVALENT WOMEN MAKERS: Renowned and Rising International Ceramic and Textile Artists Dec 9 – Jan 13 2024. Modern & Contemporary Fine Art Objects & Crafts; The Object Space, Atlanta, Georgia, USA a new gallery by Jane Jackson
2023
PRIZE WINNER OF EVOLVER FEATURE AWARD at the Royal West of England Academy 170
THE ELEMENTS OF SCULPTURE, Winchester Cathedral, Winchester
Royal West of England Open, Bristol (2023, 2022, 2020, 2018, 2016, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007)
A WOMEN’S PLACE, Re-defining Female Presence. A collaboration with the University of Bristol, curated by MA History of Art Students, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
Beukenhof – Pheonix Galleries, Belgium (2011 – 2023)
Sheridan Russell Gallery, Various Art Fairs, London
Velarde Gallery, Kingsbridge, Devon TQ7 1PP
Thelma Hulbert Gallery THG Open 2023, 2 Sept – 28 Oct, Honiton, Devon
2022
The Abstracts Exhibition, Oink Gallery 26 August – 28 September & Cirencester Pop-Up December
TOGETHER WE RISE Royal Society of Sculptors, Chichester Cathedral
NO WOMAN IS AN ISLAND The Vanner Gallery Salisbury SP1 2PB
CURVE AND FORM Pangolin London, Kings Place, London N1 9AG
Hannah Peschar Gallery, Surrey every year from 1990
2021
CRAVING COLOUR Pangolin (London)
Taylor-Jones & Sons Gallery, Deal, Kent
‘Contemporary British Ceramics: Beneath the Surface’ Eton College, Windsor
Ashley Thorpe Book launch
2019-2020
Bath Schools of Art & Design, Bath Spa University, Alumni Show, Locks brook Campus, Bath
Royal West of England Academy, (shortlisted Academician Candidates Show), Bristol
RWA Sculpture Open Exhibition, Bristol
Blackwater Gallery, Cardiff
Creative Wiltshire, A Celebration of Art, Salisbury Museum, Salisbury
The Garden Gallery, Hampshire every year from 2005
Arundel Contemporary, Arundel, Sussex (2017-2020)
2018
Affordable Art Fair Brussels, Hampstead & Battersea
VJB Arts in the Atrium of 10 Gresham Street, London
Urchfont Manor, Wiltshire, ‘Art in the Garden’ organised by The Friends of the Garden
2008 – 2017
Guest speaker at the Ceramic Artist Association of Israel symposium at Tel Hai. Lecturing in Jerusalem at the Israel Museum and at the Bet Benyamin Centre in Tel Aviv (2017)
Cavalieri Finn, Dulwich & Somerset & Royal Society of Sculptors, London
The London Group Open, The Cello Factory, London
‘From Where I’m Standing’, Swindon Museum &Art Gallery
‘Discerning Eye Winners’ Exhibition, Temple Church, London
Doddington Hall & Gardens, Lincoln (2012 & 2016)
Tarpley Gallery, Derby
Lemon Street Gallery, Withier, Truro (2014 & 2016)
William Benington Gallery Sculptural at Coombe Trenchard (2012, 2013 & 2015)
The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle: ‘Gravity’ (Special Exhibition)
Denise Yapp Contemporary Art, Monmouth
Bohun Gallery, Henley on Thames (Regular exhibitor) Ceramic Art London (2013 & 2011)
Quenington Sculpture Trust Fresh Air (2017, 2013, 2011 & 2009)
Sculpt Gallery, Essex
Rococo Gardens, Painswick (Commissioned Artist)
Shirley Crowther Fine Art
View Art Gallery, Bristol
Chichester Cathedral, Sculpture in Paradise (2008 & 2006)
The Himalayan Garden & Sculpture Park, Yorkshire
18@108 Royal British Society of Sculptors, London
The Martin Tinney Gallery, Cardiff
ING Discerning Eye* (*Specially Selected Artist)
Eye to Eye, Cork Street, London
The Scottish Gallery
Collections
COLLECTIONS:
Lord Carrington, Sir John Mortimer, Damon de Laszlo, Simon Relph CBE, Lady Osborne, Robert Race, Priory Hotel – Bath, British Consul – Ivory Coast, Anthony Horowitz, Mary Portas, Swindon Museum & Art Gallery, Hugo Burge – Marchmont House, Canada Wharf Art Collection, Jacquiline Creswell.
COMMISSIONS:
The Water Deities (1997)
ArtSway, Sway, Hampshire (garden designer: Cleve West)
Audience and Muse (1998) Brewhouse Art Centre, Taunton
Work selected as Southern Arts Prize by Beckett biographer James Knowlson (winner of Southern Arts Literary Award 1999, for his book, Damned to Fame: A Life of Samuel Beckett.)