Sarah Purvey
STATEMENT
Sarah Purvey's primary discipline is in ceramic sculpture, supported by a strong dynamic drawing and printmaking practice. Working in clay with a limited colour palette, each one of Purvey's monumental structures are part of a personal exploration into the possibilities of the medium. There is a tension to be found within each form that neatly mirrors the forces that pervade in nature itself. The Wiltshire landscape in which Sarah is based as well as the ever-changing internal landscape of the artist put their mark on every piece made.
BIOGRAPHY
Sarah Purvey has had solo exhibitions in St Ives, Amsterdam and Bath and has shown widely in group exhibitions including New York and London. Purvey's work featured in the Threadneedle Prize Exhibition in 2012, Society of Women Artists at the Mall Galleries London and The Bath Society of Artists at the Victoria Art Gallery, Bath. Her work is represented by galleries both nationally and internationally.
Purvey completed an MA in ceramics at Bath Spa University in 2009 having completed her BA twenty years previously in 1991.
QUALIFICATIONS
2009 MA Ceramics, Bath School of Art and Design, Bath Spa University
1991 BA Ceramics, Bath College of Higher Education
1988 BTec Ceramics, Plymouth College of Art and Design
COLLECTIONS
Corsham Court, Bath Spa University
Michael Portillo
Private collections in USA, Japan & Europe
AWARDS
2010, First Prize Awarded by the juried panel at the Corsham Pound Arts Open, October
SOLO & DUO EXHIBITIONS
Foreign Lands, Denise Yapp Contemporary, Monmouth, June 2016
Hallowed Ground, David Simon Contemporary, Bath, November 2015
Kriki-Ritual, Rize Gallery, Amsterdam, March 2015
Romancing Nature, Denise Yapp Contemporary Art, September 2014
Hardy House Gallery, Box, December, 2013
Solo Show, New Craftsman Gallery, St Ives, May-July, 2013
Quest Gallery, Bath, December 2012
Members Solo Show, Devon Guild, Bovey Tracey, , May 2012
Solo Ceramic, Cartshed Gallery, Shaftesbury, Sept 2011
Landscape, Corsham Court Gallery (BSU), March 2010
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2016
Adah Rose Gallery, Kensington MD, June
Highgate Gallery, London, June
Twenty Twenty Gallery, Much Wenlock, May
Suspended Fruit, C4RD Centre for Recent Drawing, London, March
Women in Art, Wall Projects 1, Montrose, Scotland, March
McAllister Thomas Fine Art, Godalming, Surrey, March
Inside Out - Bursary Exhibition, Pound Arts Centre, Corsham, Wiltshire, January
2015
Flux Exhibition, Grays Art Gallery, RCA Galleries, London, December
Sculpture For Furniture with Michael Pennie, Salisbury Arts Centre, September
Enflamed, Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York,, June
Bath Society of Artists 110th Exhibition, June
Land Tracks, Wine Street Gallery, June
Still Life & Ceramics, Robert Fogell Gallery, June
Denise Yapp Contemporary, May
Flux Exhibition, Grays Art Gallery, London, February
Small Works, David Simon Contemporary, Bath, January
2014
Rize Art Gallery, Amsterdam, November
Contemporary Sculpture, Medici Gallery, London, November
Elementals: Women Sculpting Animism, Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, November
Field Of Vision, David Simon Contemporary, Bath, October
Summer Exhibition, Medici Gallery, London, July
SWA Mall Gallery, London, June
Cornwall's Influence on the Modernist Tradition, Medici Gallery, London, April
Praisesongs for the Numinous: New Sculpture, Cavin-Morris Gallery New York, March
Affordable Art Fair, Battersea, March
2013
Wine Street Gallery, November
Panzer Trotman Fine Art, November
Denise Yapp Contemporary, October
Art In Clay, Hatfield House, July
Hospitality, Bath Abbey, June
The Russell Cotes Museum with The Arthouse Gallery, June
Affordable Art Fair, Hampstead, with Bowlish Contemporary Gallery, June
Affordable Art Fair, Battersea, with Bowlish Contemporary Gallery, March
2012
Autumn Show, Bircham Gallery Norfolk,, October
Gallery 28, Cork Street, with the Katharine House Gallery, October
Threadneedle Prize Exhibition, Mall Galleries, September
Art In Clay, Hatfield House, August
Hilton Fine Art, Bath, June
2011
Open Show, Pound Arts Centre, Corsham, October
Ceramics- Nine Artists at Corsham, Corsham Court Gallery (BSU), September
Art in Clay, Hatfield House, July
Open Show, Black Swan, Frome, May
Group Show with Calne Artists, Bowood House, Wiltshire, April
2010
Gallery 27, Cork Street, with Katharine House Gallery and Askew Art, December
Open Show, Pound Arts Centre, Corsham, October
Group Show, Calne Arts Festival, October
Katharine House Gallery, Marlborough, September
Bradford On Avon Arts Festival - Sculpture Garden 'Tribe', September
Central Gallery Malvern, Bertram Enterprises, May
2009
Milsom Place, Bath with Mirka Golden-Hann (BSU), November
MA Degree Show (BSU) Sion Hill Bath, September