Beatrice Hoffman

« Beauty to me is simplicity, clarity, concentration and must extend beyond decorative prettiness. Beauty holds contradictions, tensions, and ambivalence, it is a balance kept despite conflict. »
Beatrice Hoffman is a German sculptor based near Oxford in the United Kingdom whose works have been extensively exhibited on a national level.
Her art explores the universal themes relating to mythology, psychology, and spirituality, as well as mental states, relationships, human identity, maternal love, and solitude. Hoffman's abstract and figurative sculptures depict female figures, large, symbolic heads, and organic or geometric forms.
She sculpts in clay and plasticine ,a nd casts in resin and bronze.
Her sculptures are suited for the domestic square, the garden, or pubic spaces.

1985-86 Art Foundation Course, Lowestoft College of further Education
1986-89 Norwich School of Art
1989-90 Hertfordshire College of Art and Design, Postgraduate degree in Art Therapy

Selected Solo and group shows, commissions and exhibitions in gardens

Solo Exhibitions:
2019 Arundel Gallery
2018 – Sewell Centre Gallery, Radley, with painter Manja Scott
2012 – North House Gallery Manningtree
2010 – Lewis Gallery Rugby “Sculptures 2000-2010”
2005 – Buckingham Gallery Suffolk
2000 – Gallery Jeanne Munich Germany


Commissions and public sculptures
2017-20 – “Walking Forwards” two life-size figures for the entrance of a UK hospital
2012 – “Ready” Olympic commission for Kingsthorpe College Northampton
2010 – "Comforting” Louise Kieselbach Heim Munich/Germany
1990 – “Mother and Child” (2,30m tall, Oak) Hall Special School in Norwich
1989/90 -“The Guardian” (2.50m tall, Oak) Norwich City Council


Selected Group Exhibitions:


2019
NEW: Arundel Gallery, Luminaire Gallery /Chelsea/London
AS BEFORE: The Art Agency, Fosse House Gallery,

2018
Little Buckland Gallery
Catherine Miller Gallery Chelsea/London
Arundel Contemporary Art East Sussex
Luminaire Arts Gallery Pimlico/ London
Francis Isles (Rochester), The Art Agency Galleries (Esher) Kyffin Gallery (Woodstock), Fosse House Gallery (Dunchurch) and the Taurus Gallery

2017 OAW, Oxford Festival of the Arts
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