Curriculum Vitae

Louise Plant carving Caesura at Studio Sem, Pietrasanta, Italy

Public/Corporate

  • 2023 Parabola, Edinburgh Park.

  • 2018 Durham County Council – Bishop Auckland, Hamsterley Forest, Wharton Park.

  • 2017/18 Waldorf Astoria, Bangkok

  • 2017 Durham County Council – Noses Point, Seaham, Wharton Park, Durham

  • 2011 MoD, Northwood Headquarters, Middlesex

  • 2008 Persimmon and Continuum Arts, Bristol

  • 2004 Cunard Shipping Company, London

  • 2003 RNIB Vocational College, Loughborough

  • 2002 The Bedford Design Group, Bedford

  • 2000 Express by Holiday Inn, Poole

  • 1999 The Earth Centre, Yorkshire. Northcliffe School, Doncaster. George Farrar, Birchover. Twin Interiors, Chesterfield

Selected Exhibitions

  • 2023 Chelsea Barracks, London. The Tarpey Gallery, Leicestershire.  Artwavewest, Dorset.

  • 2022 on form, Asthall Manor. Degrees of Abstraction, The Tarpey Gallery. Artwavewest, Dorset.

  • 2021 ‘Form’, Sculpture by the Lakes, Dorset. ’10gram Challenge’ The Royal Society of Sculptors, London.

  • 2020 ‘Regatta’, Middleton Lodge, Yorkshire. Cheeseburn, Northumberland.

  • 2019 The Royal Society of Sculptors Summer Exhibition, Dora House, London. ‘Regatta’, Cheeseburn, Northumberland.

  • 2018 Cheeseburn, Northumberland. Ps in a Pod, Bishop Auckland. on form, Asthall Manor. KKV, Bohuslän, Sweden. The Royal Society of Sculptors Summer Exhibition, Dora House, London.

  • 2017 What the Artist Saw, MOCA, London and New Walk Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester. KKV, Bohuslän, Sweden Burghley House Sculpture Garden, Lincolnshire

  • 2016 on form, Asthall Manor. Burghley House Sculpture Garden, Lincolnshire. KKV, Bohuslän, Sweden.

  • 2015 Uddenskulptur 2015 Jubileum, Udden, Hunnebostrand, Sweden. ‘Funny Ha Ha’, Burghley, Lincolnshire

  • 2014 Sculpture in the Garden, University of Leicester. ‘A Creative Consensus’, Derby University

  • 2013/14 Burghley House Sculpture Garden, Lincolnshire. The Bowes Museum, Teesdale

  • 2012 ‘Flora and Fauna’, Burghley, Lincolnshire. ‘A Question of Sport’, Clifford Chance, Canary Wharf, London

  • 2011 Royal Society of Sculptors, Pietrasanta, Italy. Sculpture at The Grove, Hertfordshire. Woburn Artbeat, Bedfordshire. ‘A Decade of Sculpture in the Garden’, University of Leicester

  • 2010 ‘Elemental’, Friar Gate Studios, Derby

  • 2009 ‘Art Contact – Sculpture 2009’, Cambridge

  • 2008 ‘Pride’, Clifford Chance, Canary Wharf, London. Royal Society of Sculptors, London

  • 2006/7 Touring Exhibition of 2006 Symposium, Volterra, Italy

  • 2005 ‘Steel and Stone’, Ipswich. ‘33’, Doncaster

  • 2003 ‘Art Auction’, The Ashbourne Gallery, Derbyshire. ‘CONNECT’, The City Gallery, Leicester.

  • ‘4AA2A’, Banks Mill, Derby

  • 2001 ‘Breaking the Barriers’, Usher Gallery, Lincoln. ‘Paper, Stone’, The Point, Doncaster

  • 2000 ‘Reminds me of my Friend’, Wysing Arts, Cambridge.

Awards

  • 2014 Bohusläns Stone Scholarship, KKV, Bohuslän, Sweden

  • 2013 AA2A, Derby University

  • 2007 Brian Mercer Scholarship, Fondazione Sem, Pietrasanta, Italy

  • 2002 AA2A, Derby University

  • 2000 Arts Council England; Year of the Artist Award

Symposia

  • 2013 ‘Response to Landscape’, Bowes Museum, Teesdale, UK; lead sculptor

  • 2012 ‘Facets of Stone’, Teesdale, UK

  • 2009 International Sculpture Symposium, IUCAA, Pune, India

  • 2006 International Sculpture Symposium, Global Stone, Volterra, Italy

Media and Publications

  • 2013 Radio Teesdale

  • 2004 BBC Radio Derby

  • 2001 BBC Radio 4. The Times Educational Supplement

Presentations

  • 2014 Gerlesborgsskolan Art School, Sweden

  • 2012 and 2013 The Stone Festival, Teesdale

  • 2009 Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, India

  • 2008 Royal British Society of Sculptors, London. Brian Mercer Charitable Trust, Blackburn

  • 2007 Fondazione Sem, Pietrasanta, Italy

  • 2003 Leicester City Gallery. Doncaster Art Club.

Memberships

  • 2014 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Sculptors

  • 2012- 16 Council Member; Royal Society of Sculptors

  • 2013- 15 Selection Panel Member, Brian Mercer Bronze Scholarship; Royal Society of Sculptors

  • 2011- 12 Exhibitions Committee Member; Royal Society of Sculptors

  • 2008 – 11 Selection Panel Member, Brian Mercer Stone Scholarship; Royal Society of Sculptors

  • 2003 Elected Member, Royal Society of Sculptors

Education

  • 2007 Brian Mercer Scholarship, Italy

  • 2006 to 08 Mentee of Helaine Blumenfeld, OBE

  • 2003 Post Graduate Certificate in Arts Practice, Derby

  • 1997 Art and Design Foundation, Doncaster

  • 1992 Open College of the Arts, Barnsley

  • 1982 B.Ed Honours, Sheffield

Teaching

  • 2014 Visiting Lecturer, Loughborough School of Arts, Loughborough University

  • 2010 -14 Lecturer, Derby College

  • 1984- 93 Teacher, Head of Department and Advisory Teacher, South Yorkshire