Christy Symington

SCULPTOR. Born in the UK. Lived in London, New Zealand, Australia, Paris, New York. Backpacked round the world.

Christy Symington MRBS studied traditional figure sculpture and drawing techniques in Paris at Les Ateliers Beaux-Arts Montparnasse and Glaciere, Ecole Superieure des Arts Appliques Duperre and L'ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts. This was preceded by a year of life figure/portrait modelling and sculpture techniques at Kensington and Chelsea College. She graduated from the New York Studio School with Merit Award for Sculpture spending 4 years in the USA [was the selected sculpture student to exchange to the Slade School of Art, London]. She took an MA in Fine Art at Byam Shaw [Central St Martins], University of the Arts London. With a PGCE Postgraduate Certificate in Education she teaches and mentors in several UK art colleges and schools. Christy is a Member of the Royal British Society of Sculptors since 2002 and Board Member from 2003-2007. She exhibits in the UK and internationally.

How humans impact on the natural world and the interaction that each has with the other deeply underlies 3 areas of interest: FIGURES & PORTRAITS, TIGERS and ABSTRACT Sculpture and Drawings. Inspiration from the ma...

- Member of Royal British Society of Sculptors MRBS since 2002
- Council Royal British Society of Sculptors [2003-07]
- Byam Shaw [Central St Martins], University of the Arts London - MA
- New York Studio School, NYC - Merit Award for Sculpture 1997-2001
- Les Ateliers Beaux-Arts - Glaciere and Montparnasse, Paris 1996-97
- PGCE Post Graduate Teaching Certificate 2004-06

SELECTED and INVITED EXHIBITIONS

2017
International Slavery Museum ‘Ink and Blood: stories of abolition’, 10th Anniversary Special Exhibition, Liverpool
Young Masters Prize Tour
SWA The Society of Women Artists, Mall Galleries
Columbia Threadneedle Prize - Preselect
ArtSlant – Winner 7th 2017 ArtSlant Prize Showcase, Sculpture
Royal Scottish Academy of Art and Architecture - Preselect
Royal West of England Academy - Preselect
Celeste Prize – Editor’s Choice
Uncooked Culture ‘One Bare Foot Square’, Chiangrai Rajabhat University, Thailand
[Space] Studios 'LCN London Showcase

2016
Black Cultural Archives ‘Black Georgians: The Shock of the Familiar’, 1 Windrush Square, Brixton, London Outsider Art Gallery Amsterdam in The Hermitage ‘One Bare Foot Square’, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2015
Black Cultural Archives, ‘Black Georgians: The Shock of the Familiar’, Brixton, London
Conway Hall, ‘Slavery and the Shaping of British Culture’ for talk by Prof James Walvin, London WC1
Deptford X Fringe 2015 ‘Deptford Conversations’ selected by Janette Parris
Solo - Stephen Lawrence Centre Gallery ‘OLAUDAH EQUIANO MAN AND BROTHER’, Deptford, London
St Nicholas Church, Deptford, London

2014
Uncooked Culture, 'Circus Termi...