Louise Plant
Biography
Louise Plant is a British artist, currently working and living in Devon.
Louise began her journey in sculpture studying with the Open College of the Arts whilst balancing a full-time teaching career. She later left teaching to focus on sculpture. Now an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Sculptors, her work has been exhibited internationally and throughout the UK.
Awards include the Year of the Artist Award from the Arts Council of England, the Brian Mercer Marble Scholarship, Studio Sem, Italy, and the Swedish KKV Bohuslän Scholarship.
Her sculptures are part of private collections worldwide and commissioners include the RNIB Loughborough, the MOD, Northwood, Somerset County Council, Durham County Council and the Waldorf Astoria, Bangkok. Plant’s latest public installation is sited in Edinburgh in the recently developed cultural quarter at 1 New Park Square, Edinburgh Park.
Artist Statement
My work considers how movement and human energy influence the space around us. It explores shapes and rhythms created by human movement and physical elements borne of the earth. Often led by a strong personal, visceral response, I seek to capture these powerful forces, rendering them accessible, tangible objects to be seen and touched. Recent work takes inspiration from natural forms created underwater, embracing the undulating movement of organic matter.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025 The Space Between, Tarpy Gallery. Botanical Reverie, Velarde Gallery.
2023 Chelsea Barracks, London. The Tarpey Gallery, Leicestershire. Artwavewest, Dorset.
2022 on form, Asthall Manor, Oxfordshire. Degrees of Abstraction, The Tarpey Gallery. Artwavewest, Dorset.
2021 ‘Form’, Sculpture by the Lakes, Dorset. ’10gram Challenge’ The Royal Society of Sculptors, London.
2020 Cheeseburn Grange, Northumberland.
2019 The Royal Society of Sculptors Summer Exhibition, London. Cheeseburn Grange, Northumberland.
2018 The Royal Society of Sculptors Summer Exhibition, London. on form, Asthall Manor, Oxfordshire. Cheeseburn Grange.
2017 ‘What the Artist Saw’, MOCA, London and New Walk Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester. Burghley House, Lincolnshire.
KKV, Bohuslän, Sweden.
2016 on form, Asthall Manor, Oxfordshire. 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.
2013 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’, Harold Martin Botanical Gardens, University of Leicester.
2010 ‘Elemental’, Friar Gate Studios, Derby.
2009 ‘Art Contact - Sculpture 2009’, Cambridge
2008 ‘Pride’, Clifford Chance, Canary Wharf, London. Dora House, Royal Society of Sculptors, London.
2006 - 07 Touring Exhibition of Global Stone, Volterra Symposium, 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.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024 Evolving Dimensions, ArtWave West, Dorset.
2020 ‘Vellake’, Devon. ’Regatta’, Middleton Lodge, Richmond, Yorkshire.
2019 ‘Regatta’, Cheeseburn Grange, Northumberland.
2018 ‘Ps in a Pod’, Bishop Auckland.
Public/Corporate Commissions
2023 Parabola, Edinburgh Park.
2018 Durham County Council.
2017 Waldorf Astoria, Bangkok.
2011 MoD, Northwood Headquarters, Middlesex.
2008 Persimmon and Continuum Arts, Port Marine, 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.
Memberships
2014 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Sculptors (FRSS).
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 of the Royal Society of Sculptors (MRSS). Symposia
2014 VAR Initiative, Leonardo da Vinci Programme, Iceland.
2013 ‘Response to Landscape’, Bowes Museum, Teesdale, UK; lead sculptor.
2009 International Sculpture Symposium, Inter University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, India.
2006 International Sculpture Symposium, Global Stone, Volterra, Italy.
Awards
2014 The 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.
Education
2007 Brian Mercer Scholarship at Fondazione Sem, Pietrasanta, Italy.
2006 - 08 Mentee of Helaine Blumenfeld, OBE.
2003 Post Graduate Certificate in Arts Practice, University of Derby.
1997 Art and Design Foundation, Doncaster Art College.
1992 Open College of the Arts - Sculpture, Barnsley.
1982 B.Ed Honours, Sheffield.
Teaching
2010 - 14 Lecturer, Derby College.
1984 - 93 Teacher, Head of Department and Advisory Teacher, South Yorkshire.
Presentations
2014 Gerlesborgsskolan Art School, Sweden. Loughborough School of Arts, Loughborough University.
2012 ‘Facets of Stone’, Teesdale, UK.
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, Leicester. Doncaster Art Club, Doncaster.
Media and Publications
2025 Polaris, The Edinburgh Park Literary Zine, Issue Three, Planting Amaryllis
2013 Radio Teesdale.
2004 BBC Radio Derby.
2001 BBC Radio 4. The Times Educational Supplement.
Helping Artists Keep Going
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