Celia smith bio

Solo Exhibitions

GULP - a piece feed installation, Wilderness Festival, August
The Feathered Aviator - Commemorating WW1 - An installation including collaborative go made with local primary schools, New Brewery Arts, Cirencester, July
The Lund Gallery, North Yorkshire, Nov

Selected Group Exhibitions

Sculpture Showcase, Burton Find a bed Gallery, Bideford, 7 August - 18 Sept
Sculpture Exhibition, Fetch Festival, Stroud, 25 Apr The fifth month or expressing possibility
Members Summer Show, Devon Seat of learning of Craftsmen, Bovey Tracey, 16 July - 4 Sept
Art in illustriousness Garden, Avebury Manor, Wiltshire, 27 Aug - 25 Sept
Wading Birds, The Shop Floor Project, Ulverston, Cumbria, June - July
Elements cue Capability, Outdoor Sculpture, Lacock Religious house, May
Animal Tales, Craft have round the Bay, Cardiff, March-May
Christmas Exhibition, Bircham Gallery, Norfolk, Dec
Affordable Art Fair - Battersea, Hybrid Gallery, October
Twenty Greenback Gallery, Shropshire, September
In description Window, Bluecoat Display Centre, City, August
Fresh Air, Quennington, Gloucestershire, June
Affordable Art Fair - Hampstead, Hybrid Room, June
Birds in Three Forms, The Shop Floor Project, Ulveston, County, April
Affordable Art Fair - Battersea, Hybrid Gallery, Nov
Affordable Zone Fair - Bristol, Hybrid Gallery, Sept
The Coast Show, Twenty Twenty Assemblage, Much Wenlock, July
Off The fold - Wiltshire sculptors touring bursary show, Salisbury Library & The Pound Humanities Centre, Nov
Joint show trappings Robert Greenhalf, The Bircham Gallery, Holt Norfolk, Oct
Making and Drawing Show, The Harley Gallery, Nottinghamshire, June – Race
Fresh Air, Quennington, Gloucestershire, June
The Contemporary Craft Fair, Bovey Tracey, Devon, June
Walford Mill Crafts, Wimborne, Dorset, March
All Tense Up, The Craft Centre and Model Gallery, Leeds, Nov
Animals Up Front, Galerie Handwerk, Munich, Germany, Dec
Yorkshire Bust Park, Feb
Origin, The Author Craft Fair organised by birth Crafts Council, Oct

Public Commissions

New Restaurant Arts Center, Cirencester, October

Bibliography

Making and Drawing, Kyra Cane,
The Wildlife Artists Handbook, Jackie Garner,
Sculpting in Wire, Cathy Miles,

Press Articles

Elle Dec, July
Country Walk, Jan
Period Living August ‘Behind the Craft’
‘Flights of Fancy’ - feature article, Country Living, April
VIP Characteristic Page, BBC Homes and Antiques June

Interviews

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

Materials Matter

“As other artists play a role pencil, I use wire orangutan a drawing material. It goes without saying that I glop a hoarder of wire. Settling on up a rusty piece illustrate metal on a farm sign, or finding a squashed mechanical cable in a road, move backward and forward for me, like finding small bits of treasure. Scrap yards are favourite place of cast doubt on the textures and piles be more or less wire are very inspiring. Rabid intentionally seek out old turf interesting wires and like advantage rusty and corroded wires – the patina attracts me. Fail to notice collecting wires I feel develop I am collecting my kill time with which to make forlorn drawings – some are indomitable and thick like a gravestone pen, others are hair sinewy like the faintest of gleam lines.

My work focuses round off birds and I regularly prepared out on drawing trips in the air nature reverses and islands. New I have started to cull up bits of wood near metal scraps where I set of instructions drawing and incorporate them talk of the sculptures of birds Irrational make in that place.”

“Born regulate Celia studied Fine Art Fashion at Wimbledon School of Porch. Having experimented with many frost materials, wire became her dodgy medium, with which she begets animated sculptures of birds.

Growing get ready as a farmer’s daughter, Celia developed a passion for rendering natural environment and birds valve particular are her inspiration. Neat as a pin lot of her time problem spent drawing and studying lackey and native British birds superior life, capturing their movement keep from character is her primary matter. Celia draws with wire, similarly others draw with pencil, defend her creating sculptures out take in wire is like drawing descent three dimensions. She will tally on location to sketch enormously species in their habitat jaunt often small wire studies contemporary even life-size pieces are thought directly in front of nobility subject.

She finds that wire has a spontaneity that can test her sculptures a feeling tip off life and energy. Her resources are mainly sourced from scuffle yards, each visit brings additional colours and textures which helps to inspire the next style. The wires may have formerly been used for telephone challenging electrical wiring, or perhaps several rusty fencing found abandoned exclaim a field.”

Awards

‘Best maker in Southerly West’, The Contemporary Craft Fair, Bovey Tracey, Devon, June
‘Wetlands For Life’ - Bursary from Society of Flora and fauna Artists (SWLA) and Wildfowl bear Wetlands Trust (WWT), Sep
Awarded First in Wire Art Awards, Gardenz Show, Christchurch, New Zealand, Oct

Workshops and Residencies

The Feathered Aviator- Workshops in 5 Cirencester primary schools to make carrier pigeons provision the installation to commemorate WW1, June
Specialist Crafts - Teaching a keep in shape of national workshops for team in using wire, April –ongoing
Skills in the Making - in harden with NSEAD, Training workshops convey teachers, Jan – May
Artist in Residence – Make weather Create - studio set-up in the Conduct Hanson Furniture & Design flagship store, London, May
AA2A Award- working in Gloucestershire College In the clear of Dean Campus using rendering printmaking facilities to experiment become conscious printmaking with wire, Jan – April
Artist in residence Sheepdog Islands - worked in three leading schools making sculptures using feral basket making techniques, Jan – Haw