Patricia Volk
United Kingdom
www.patriciavolk.co.uk
category: Sculpture
technique: Ceramics
Style: Modern
Statement:
For the last fifteen years I have been more or less immersed in creating heads; flawed heroes, empowered virgins, or pensive deities, iconlike but with iconoclastic human frailties. I felt they were the ideal vessels for conveying humanity through the material, but they were also my comfort zone. Now I’ve made a complete departure.
Though my heads were always symbolic and semi-abstract, I wanted to find out what happened if I disposed of the figurative, literal element and concentrated simply on the basic forms and lines I’d grown to love.
What I have discovered is a fascination with how one line or form has an effect upon another next to it. The juxtapositions of shape and colour create wonderful contradictions of power and fragility, stability and precariousness, their tentative proximities, frictions and “rubbing against each other” reflecting 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 that seems as if it might topple, but keeps standing. Just as in life.
The old adage is to “Do one scary thing every day.” Departing from heads (my old friends) was not easy, but I am excited that these new abstract forms are still essentially “me”. And have set me free.
Bio / Resumee / Statement:
Associate member, Royal British Society of Sculptors (ARBS): www.rbs.org.uk
Prizes:
ING "Discerning Eye" Exhibition, Mall Gallery, London - Regional Winner - 2007
BANA (Bath Area Network for Artists) - voted favourite piece by Mauger Gallery - 2007
Shortlsted for the 'Brian Mercer Bronze Casting Residency' by the Royal Society of Sculptors - 2008
Solo Exhibitions:
McHardy Sculpture Gallery, London (1998)
Beaux Arts, Bath (1997)
Bohun Gallery, Henley-on-Thames (1997)
Beaux Arts, Bath (1996)
The Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh (1995)
Beaux Arts, Bath (1994)
Hannah Peschar Gallery,Surrey (1992)
West Wharf Gallery, Cardiff (1991)
Richard Philp Gallery, London (1991)
Selected Exhibitions:
2009 View Art Gallery, Bristol
Quenington Sculpture Trust, Fresh Air 2009
Twenty Twenty Gallery, Shropshire
2008 Chichester Cathedral, Sculpture in Paradise
18@108 Royal British Society of Sculptors, London
Art in the Garden 08,
at the Sir Harold Hillier Gardens, Hampshire
The Garden Gallery, Hampshire
The Gallery at Bevere, Worcester
The Martin Tinney Gallery, Cardiff
RWA Open
Brewery Art Centre, Circencester
2007 ING Discerning Eye (Specially Selected Artist)
RWA Open
CPA at 50, Worcester
ArtsParks, Guernsey
Chichester Festivities, Sculpture in Paradise
Black Swan Arts: 'ReForm'
Sheridan Russell Gallery (London)
Mauger Modern Art, Bath
2006 Eye to Eye, Cork Street, London
Bohun Gallery, Henley-on Thames
The Garden Gallery
Brownston Gallery, Devon
One Two Five Gallery, Bath
2005 On the Wall, London
Twenty Twenty Gallery, Shropshire
Ale and Porter, Bradford on Avon
The Garden Gallery, Hampshire
1997-2004 J. Scott Gallery, New York, USA
Abbey House Garden (ArtOutside)
Artifax, Birmingham
Hannah Peschar Gallery
Bohun Gallery, Henley-on-Thames
The Scottish Gallery
Wolseley Fine Art, London
Beaux Arts, Bath
Broadway Modern, Broadway
Site of Special Artistic Interest:
(ArtSway Art Centre, Sway)
Sculpture for the Garden: (Wolseley
Fine Art/The Gallery, Cork Street/
Glyn Vivian Art Centre, Swansea.
1989-1996 7 Young Sculptors: Beaux Arts, Bath
Hampton Court (Evening Standard)
Artists of Fame and Promise:
Beaux Arts, Bath
Corpus: (Black Swan Guild, Frome)
Ceramic Contemporaries: V&A
Oxfordshire County Museum
Splinter Gallery, London
Houldsworth Fine Art, London
ICA, London
Leigh Gallery, London
Collections:
Lord Carrington
Sir John Mortimer
Damon de Laszlo
Simon Relph CBE
Lady Osborne
Priory Hotel, Bath
British Consul, Ivory Coast
Anthony Horowitz.
Work featured in:
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).
Contemporary Ceramics International Perspective by Emmanuel Cooper (Thames & Hudson)
Site Specific Sculpture:
The Deities (1996) Hannah Peschar Sculpture Garden, Surrey
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.)
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