Patricia Volk

As a sculptor I love working with the directness of clay, using all the techniques, coiling and slab building, making one-off pieces, which are fired then finished with acrylic paint. Classical sculpture was always highly coloured but we have this erroneous idea that they were all white and sterile looking.

Having said that, my obsession is catching a very simple form or line, primarily, then enhancing it with colour. Sometimes I use juxtapositions of two forms that I hope suggest contradictions of strength and fragility, stability and precariousness – like the relationships between human beings. But also other opposites, such as rest and activity, that I hope give my work a lively presence and a sense of each one having an individual character. But really all this is open to the eye of the beholder. I never want to be too prescriptive, and in saying this much I’ve probably said too much

1985: Foundation course at Middlesex University, London
1986-88 Begins BA in Three-Dimensional Design at Middlesex University, London
1988–89: BA in Ceramics at Bath Spa University, Bath

Solo Exhibitions:
Arundel Contemporary, Arundel (2019)
Kobi & Teal, Frome (2018)
Oink Gallery, Swindon (2018)
Chapel Arts (click here to see a book of the exhibition) Cheltenham (2017)
New Craftsman Gallery, St. Ives
William Benington Gallery Sculptural at
Coombe Trenchard (2015)
Chapel Lane Gallery, Tunbridge Wells (2015)
The Art Room, Topsham, Devon (2014) New Craftsman Gallery, St. Ives
Beaux Arts, Bath
Bohun Gallery, Henley-on-Thames
The Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh

2016
‘From Where I’m Standing’ Swindon Museum & Art Gallery
Tarpey Gallery, Derby
Lemon Street Gallery, Withiel House, Cornwall
Cavaliero Finn
Garden Gallery, Hampshire from 2005

2015
London Irish Art, Westminster
Junction Gallery, Woodstock
Flux, Royal College of Art
William Benington Gallery Sculptural at Coombe Trenchard 2012, 2013 & 2015

2014
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