Kathy Dalwood
My sculpture, both on a large and small-scale, centres around the process of casting applied through the media of plaster and concrete. A combination of abstract and figurative, a key feature of my work is that I often cast directly from real objects and materials.
Plaster Bust Collection
A 21st century re-interpretation of the historical portrait bust.
The collection is a contemporary response to the traditionally sculpted figurative statues and busts of the 18th and 19th centuries, but rather than sculpting in clay or stone, the busts are made by direct casting from real things.
www.kathydalwood.com/busts.html
SETSQUARES concrete relief tiles & friezes
Each of these collections comprises 6 - 8 different designs conceived to be placed in multiple orientations across a given surface.
Some collections have a Modernist, abstract aesthetic, one is inspired by 1970s psychedelia, another is made by direct casting from flattened packaging and others are created to client brief and reference historic, indigenous architecture and design.
Setsquares are available to bespoke order.
www.kathydalwood.com/ReliefTilesFriezes.html
Public Sculpture Friezes
Two large concrete frieze installations - one a Cardiff shopping centre, one in the foyer of new Welsh hospital - were created by direct casting from real objects.
The imagery was inspired by the history, people and architecture of the location. The motifs were indented to the frieze surface, creating a negative image of the original object.
www.kathydalwood.com/cynon%20valley%20sculpture.htm
www.kathydalwood.com/cardiff.htm
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Selected CV
2017 ‘Secret Society at Hotel Café Royal’ installation Regents St. London
2017 ‘The Plaster Bust Re-imagined’ Harewood House, Yorkshire
2016 ‘After Parkinson’ Collaboration with the Norman Parkinson Archive. London. Plaster busts & banquet installation Union Club, Soho
2016 ‘Secret Society at The Hospital Club’ Installation in vitrine gallery, London
2015 ‘Secret Society at Paul Smith’ Plaster Bust installation, Mayfair, London
2015 ‘Secret Society at Bergdorf Goodman’ New York. Plaster banquet & busts
Feature: New York Times T Magazine
2015 ‘Secret Society – a Last Supper’ St Edmund Church, City of London
2014 ‘Secret Society – a Ballroom Banquet’ Holburne Museum, Bath
Installation of plaster busts at a specially created 7m plaster ‘banquet’
2014 ‘Secret Society – an Elizabethan Banquet’ at Doddington Hall, Lincolnshire
2013 ‘Secret Society – a Sculptural Banquet’ Pitzhanger Manor, London.
2013 ‘Secret Society’ at Designers Guild, Chelsea, London
Group exhibitions
2024 Seeing Red, Phillips Auction House Contemporary Gallery, London
2022-4 LEMA Italian design gallery, Kings Rd, London
2019 ‘Back to the Future’ 4 former art school contemporaries at Andelli Art, Wells, Somerset
2018 Featured artist at Affordable Art Fair,London. Created a plinth installation of 15 plaster busts.
2018 ‘On a Pedestal’ Sculpture exhibition at Dublin Castle, Ireland. Plaster bust exhibited.
2019 ‘These White Walls’ Installation of plaster busts at Decorex, London
2015 ‘Sweet 18’. Exhibition of art, & fashion. Plaster busts installed in historic castle, Antwerp, Belgium
Public sculpture commissions
2014 Llanedeyrn Subway, Cardiff 12 relief sculptures
2012 Cynon Valley Hospital, S. Wales 50 sq m plaster frieze for reception atrium
2009 St David’s 2, Shopping Centre Cardiff. ‘Four Friezes’
Selected Design & Sculpture commission
2020-24 Private & commercial commissions for SETSQUARES tiles & friezes
2024 Ritz Carlton, San Francisco 2 bespoke plaster busts
2020 SETSQUARES concrete tile commission @ Goodtime Hotel, Miami
2019 Andaz Sugar Palace, Prague. 3 plaster busts commissioned
2017 Crillon Hotel, Paris: 22 plaster busts commissioned
2017 Darcy Hotel (Hilton Curio Collection) Washington DC: Plaster busts
2016 Hilton Bankside, London: 12 plaster busts specified for Executive Lounge
2014 Monaco Hotel Group, Pittsburgh USA. Plaster busts specified for public areas 2014
Hotel de Rome, Berlin Plaster busts installation
2017 Plaster busts installation at Warner Music event, Aynhoe Park, Oxfordshire
2016 Kips Bay Decorators Show House with David Collins Studio, plaster busts
2015 Clarins Head Office, London. Bespoke commission for plaster wall relief
2015 Sanayi 313 Gallery, Istanbul. Turkey. Two plaster busts specially commissioned
2013 Tally Weijl, fashion brand, Vienna. Installation of plaster busts in store.
2011 Louis Vuitton, launch event dinner. Installation of 40 plaster busts at a 3m banquet 2007
Habitat Design Store commissioned a collection of porcelain wall pieces and vases
The SETSQUARES collection was distributed throughout all branches world-wide