Bridget McCrum RWA. FRBS. is an artist, painter, and sculptor.
Since childhood Bridget has been excited by ancient remains, fragments of carving and standing stones in lonely landscapes. Her travels have taken her to many sites from different cultures around the Mediterranean, and the chance to work on archaeological surveys in Somalia during the early eighties increased her interest in small objects from the past.
"The landscape around my two homes has inevitably worked itself into my mind. The gentle curves of the hills of South Devon and the stark limestone cliffs carved by wind and sea on Gozo, have all subconsciously influenced my carving. Looking down on birds circling and gliding above their prey from my home high above the Dart estuary. They make marvellously abstracted subjects and I have carved them ever since I have been here."
Bridget McCrum was born in 1934 and lives and works in Devon and Gozo in Malta. She studied at Farnham College of Art, training as a painter with Lesjek Musjynski, in the 1950s. She came to sculpture in her forties and from 1980 began to work primarily in stone, having learned her craft from John Joekes and Andrea Schulewitz on the South Downs.
Her work is included in many international collections including: Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, Rolls Royce Aero Engines, Bristol, Lismore Castle, Co Cork, HSBC, Malta, Spencer Stuart, London, and the Golden Door Foundation, San Diego. Her work is held in private collections in the USA, Canada, the Middle and Far East, Europe and the UK.
SELECTED SOLO SHOWS
2020
'The Conference of the birds' Messums Harrogate - View Show
2019
'The Conference of the birds' Messums Wiltshire - View Show
2017
'The Road Less Travelled' Messums Wiltshire
2017
'Bridget McCrum' Messum's, London
2014
'Past Present: Sculpture by Bridget McCrum', One Canada Square, Canary Wharf
2014
Messum's, London
2011
Messum's, London
2008
Messum's, London
2002
St James Cavalier Art Centre, Malta
1998
Messum's, London
1997
Messum's, London
1995
Wattis Gallery, Hong Kong
1994
Dartington Hall
1992
Melitensia Gallery, Malta
1991
Vanessa Devereux Gallery, London
1990
School of Architecture, Plymouth
1988
Phoenix Gallery, Lavenham
1986
Vanessa Devereux Gallery, London
1984
Drawing Schools, Eton
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
Messums at The Grange - View Show
2018
'ING Discerning Eye' Selector & Exhibitor
Awarded ING Purchase Prize
Mall Galleries, London
2017
'Air: Visualising the Invisible in British Art 1768-2017' Royal West of England
2016
'Bronze and Stone' Messums Wiltshire
2015
‘Sculpture at Lord’s Wood’, Messum’s,
Lord’s Wood, Bucks
2014
'Sculpture at Work', Canary Wharf
2012
'On Form Sculpture', Asthall Manor
2010
'On Form Sculpture', Asthall Manor
2008
'On Form Sculpture', Asthall Manor
2007 – 2013
Royal West of England Autumn Show
2009–13
RWA Open Sculpture Exhibition
2003 –2010
Concepts Gallery, Sculpture at Goodwood
2009
Drawing Exhibition, Royal West of England
1989 – 2009
New Art Centre at Roche Court, Salisbury
1997 – 2009
Messum's, London
1999 – 2009
Art London
2000 – 2004
'Sculpture in the Garden', Bohun Gallery
2003
'Tooth and Claw', Royal West of England Academy (invited artist)
2003 'Drawn Conclusions', Plymouth City Museum
1998 University of Surrey
1995 & 1997
'Sculpture in the Garden', Deans Court, Wimborne
1996
Chelsea Harbour
1991, 1989 & 1983
Royal Academy