Olivia Musgrave

About

Olivia Musgrave was born in Dublin, her father Irish and her mother Greek. She studied Sculpture at the City and Guilds of London Art School under Allan Sly and has since been based in London. She exhibits regularly in the UK and Ireland, is a Fellow the Royal Society of British Sculptors and former President of the Society of Portrait Sculptors. She works both from life and from her imagination, where she draws inspiration from Greek mythology, as well as influences from 20th Century Italian sculptors. She has completed a large number of portrait commissions in bronze, and has won the Fedor Gleichen Award from the Royal Society of British Sculptors in 1986.

Exhibitions with Somerville Manning Gallery

2021         PAST | PRESENT | FUTURE

2010         Mystical Shores

2007         Animalier

2001         Equus

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2022         Autumn, John Martin Gallery, London, England

2020         Metamorphosis, John Martin Gallery, London, England

2016         Recent Editions, John Martin Gallery, London, England

2014         Works in Progress, John Martin Gallery Chelsea, London, England

2012         The Fates, John Martin Gallery Chelsea, London, England

2009         The Seven Deadly Sins & Other Sculptures, John Martin Gallery, London, England

2008         Jorgensen Fine Art, Dublin, Ireland

2006         Taking Flight, John Martin Gallery, London, England

2004         Recent Work, John Martin Gallery Chelsea, London, England

2002         Sculptures 2000-2002, John Martin Gallery, London, England

1997         Solo Exhibition, John Martin Gallery, London, England

Selected Group Exhibitions

2019         The Winter Show, John Martin Gallery, London, England

2019         SUMMER, Everard Read London, London, England

2018         The Summer Show, John Martin Gallery, London, England

2017         Art in Motion: The Spirit of the Horse, Messums Wiltshire, Wiltshire, England

2007         Royal Hibernian Academy, Summer Exhibition, Dublin, Ireland

2005         Summer Exhibition, John Martin Gallery, London, England

2005         ArtLondon, John Martin Gallery, London, England

2004         The Stuff of Magic, John Martin Gallery, London, England

2003         Royal West England Academy, Bristol, England

2002         The Discerning Eye, The Mall Galleries, London, England

1997         Jorgensen Fine Art, Dublin, Ireland

1996        Two-Man Exhibition, Christopher Hull Gallery, London, England

1996         Young British Sculptors, Beaux Arts Gallery, Bath, England

1995         The Discerning Eye, The Mall Galleries, London, England

1994         Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London, England

1992         Christopher Hull Gallery, Two-Man Exhibition, London, England

1989         The Discerning Eye, The Mall Galleries, London, England

Awards

1986         The Fedora Gleichen Award, Royal Society of British Sculptors

1986         The Rodney Burns Drawing Award

Selected Public Collections

Boots Plc.
The National Bank of Greece
The National Self-Portrait Collection of Ireland
Oxford Business School, Oxford University
Irish Guide Dogs for the Blind
University of Limerick

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