Billie Bond Sculpture

​I sculpt portraits -
seeking to interrogate identity through form,
form with authorship, process and time.
​I aim to project the immaterial as material.
Posing questions of the innate and the imbued -
nature verses nurture
Mapping the inside outside, creating a visual diary -
a narrative to make sense of who we are and
what it is to be human

Inspired by portrait art of the past, from broken ancient artifacts to Old Masters and the philosophical ideas of Kintsugi, my work often involves destruction and repair, realism and abstraction, paralleling the process of making with altered states and adapted minds.
​I try to translate the inner being through a disrupted surface, creating new and different visual conversations.

Using the traditional skills of realistic portrait sculpture as a point of departure, I experiment with colour to deceive and processes of making, destroying and repairing as a metaphorical journey of trauma and healing - the scars of life – a way of trying to make sense of what it is to be human, a way of trying to make sense of who I am.

Member Royal Society of Sculptors
Member Society of Portrait Sculptors

Born in Northumberland in 1965, Billie Bond grew up in Essex and continues to live ...

MA Sculptural Practice 2016 - Essex University
BA (Hons) 3 dimentional design and craft - 1st.
Specialising in figurative sculpture.
PGCE 2012

Residencies:
2016 Henry Moore Institute internship
2015-2016 Gallery in the Garden
2012-2013 AA2A Chelmsford College
2011 Great Waltham Art Show 2010 Chelmsford museum,

2021 The World Outside 27 - 30 May solo exhibition in Essex home studio SOLO
​2020 Selected FACE2020 Society Portrait Sculptors annual exhibition
2019 Breaking Depression campaign, multiple European Exhibitions, Janssen EMEA
2019 Chelmsford Art Trail - Urban Intervention at Gallery43 Moulsham Street
​2019 Over-Time Colchester School of Art Alumni The Minories, Colchester
2019 The Clinker Connection - When Humans Changed Nature Chelmsford Museum ​ SOLO
2018 Faces of Sculpture: Portrait of a Profession by Anne Purkiss at Royal Society of Sculptors
​2018 Selected work exhibited at Chelmsford Museum
2018 London Art Fair with Thompson's Gallery
2017 The September Art Exhibition
2017 Gallery in the Garden ​Perfect Imperfection and Migrant Material
2017 Riflemaker London Perfect Imperfection - The Art of Healing SOLO
2016 Gallery in The Garden - Inside Out solo show
2016 The Minories, Being There, group MA show
2015 The Minories Pathways Group
​2015 Firstsite Open
2015 Gallery in the Garden
2015 Gallery in the Garden (alongside Anita Klein)
2015 Clock Tower Gal...