Curriculum Vitae
Education
1996 1st Class BA (Hons) in Studio Ceramics, with 1st class Dissertation Award for ‘A Deconstruction of Women’s Daily Lives’, featuring Bobby Baker performance artist and the seven virtues (Pilgrims Progress. Copy available, UCF library).
Exhibitions
2023 Sacred Wanderings: Beyond the Familiar, Crypt Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall
2023 Trelissick Gallery (foyer focus), Gold, Celebrating 50 years of Cornwall Crafts
2023 Crafts Council ‘Collect’ Art Fair, Somerset House, (represented by Long & Ryle)
2022 British Art Fair, Saatchi Gallery, (represented by Long & Ryle)
2022 Living on the Edge solo show, Rock Institute, Cornwall
2022 London Original Print Fair’, Somerset House, (represented by Long & Ryle)
2022 London Art Fair, Islington, (represented by Long & Ryle), London
2021 London Original Print Fair, Somerset House, (represented by Long & Ryle)
2021 London Art Fair, Islington, (represented by Long & Ryle)
2020 Summer Anthology, (represented by Long & Ryle)
2020 Quiet World’, Compass Gallery, Glasgow
2020 Original Print Fair, Royal Academy, (represented by Long & Ryle)
2020 London Art Fair, Islington, (represented by Long & Ryle)
2019 Stuff and Nonsense, Falmouth Municipal Gallery
2019 20/21 London Art Fair, Saatchi Gallery (represented by Long & Ryle)
2018 20/21 London Art Fair, Saatchi Gallery (represented by Long & Ryle)
2018 LAPADA, Berkeley Square, London (represented by Long & Ryle)
2018 Ancient Scent Ireland, St Saviour’s Hall, Barbican, Plymouth
2017/18 Imagine, Falmouth Municipal Gallery, Cornwall
2017 Ten Year Anniversary show, Valency Fine Art, Rock, Cornwall
2016 Ancient Scent, Lamorna
2016 Pressgang, Penwith Society of Arts Gallery, St Ives
2015 Saturation point, Solo show, Valency Fine Art, Rock, Cornwall
2015 Glaze Alchemy, The Leach Pottery, St Ives, Cornwall
2015 RED (The Other Clay), Trelowarren, Cornwall
2015 The Gallery at Bevere, (Featured maker), Worcester
2014 For the Sake of Love, Solo, Beside the Wave, Falmouth, Cornwall
2014 Down by The Sea, Solo, New Craftsman, St Ives, Cornwall
2014 25 Squared 25th Anniversary Mixed Show, Majlis Gallery, UAE
2014 Brilliant Colour, Falmouth Art Gallery, Falmouth, Cornwall
2014 Cornwall Ceramics Trail (St Ives Festival)
2013 Fearless Colour, Solo Show, Valency Fine Art, Rock, Cornwall
2013 Worldly Goods, Majlis, UAE
2012 23rd Bakers Dozen, Round House Gallery, Derbyshire
2012 Showcase, Oriel Wrexham, Wales
2012 Cornwall: A Celebration, Bevere Gallery, Worcester
2011 Mathew Lanyon/Linda Styles, New Craftsman, St Ives
2010 Paintings and Ceramics, Majlis Gallery, UAE
2010 Spring Exhibition Richard Hagen Fine Art, Worcestershire
2010 Paintings and Ceramics, Majlis Gallery, UAE
2010 A Mixed Bunch, Falmouth Municipal Gallery, Cornwall
2010 Winter Show, Ferrers Gallery, Ashby-De-La-Zouch, Leicestershire
2009 Around Britain’s Coastline, Richard Hagen, Worcestershire
2009 Autumn Exhibition, Gallery SCA, Shrewsbury
2009 Darwin – Species, Falmouth Municipal Gallery, Cornwall
2009 Beyond the Surface, Galanthus Gallery, Herefordshire
2009 Christmas Show, Wet Paint Gallery, Cirencester
2009 Emma Jeffrey’s / Linda Styles, The New Craftsman, St Ives
2009 Spring Exhibition, Hadfield Fine Art, Cheltenham
2009 Around Britain’s Coastline, Richard Hagen, Worcestershire
2009 Virtuoso, SDC Gallery, London
2008 Eye-To-Eye, Object-To-Object, North Carolina, USA
2008 Christmas Show, Newlyn Gallery, Cornwall
2008 Solo Show, New Street Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall
2008 Focus, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Scotland
2008 Linda Styles/Trevor Price, Printmaker’s Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall
2007 Linda Styles, Camden Gallery, Gloucestershire
2007 Miro Constellations, Falmouth Gallery, Cornwall
2007 Linda Styles/Paul Wadsworth, Camden Gallery, Gloucestershire
2007 3 Alchemists, Hill House Gallery, Yorkshire
2007 Function? Solo Show, Over the Moon, St Agnes, Cornwall
2006 Linda Styles, Newlyn Orion, Cornwall
2006 11th Annual, Chelsea Art Fair, London
2006 Curated, Hidden Art, Godolphin House, Helston, Cornwall
2006 Daphne McClure, Linda Styles, Dave Symons Newlyn Orion
2006 Contemporary Craft Fair, Bovey Tracey, Devon
2005 Linda Styles/Paul Wadsworth, Badcock’s, Newlyn, Cornwall
2005 Bristol Affordable Art Fair, Bristol
2004 9th Annual, Chelsea Art Fair, London
2004 Matisse, Falmouth Municipal Gallery, Cornwall
2003 Italy, Light & Dark, Gallery 27, Cork Street, London
2003 Picasso ‘Make Me Smile’, Falmouth Municipal Gallery, Cornwall
2003 Discovering Cornish Talent, Hicks Gallery, Wimbledon, London
2002 7th Annual, Chelsea Art Fair, London
2001 The Beach, Rufford Craft Centre, Nottinghamshire
2001 Fresh Cornish, Brewery Arts, Cirencester
2000 Focus, Newlyn Orion, Cornwall
1996 Makers from Cornwall, 3D Gallery, Bristol
1996 What’s Brewing Art Connoisseur Gallery, London
1996 Setting Out, CPA, London
1995 Ceramic Contemporaries II, V&A, London
1995 A Sense of Place, Cornwall Museum, Truro, Cornwall
1994 The Melting Pot, (with Lubna Chowdhary), Tate Gallery, St Ives
Self-Directed Projects
2017 – 2018 ‘Ancient Scent 2’, St Saviour’s Hall (The Lenkiewicz Foundation), Barbican, Plymouth
2015 – 16 ‘Ancient Scent 1’, Lamorna, WI Hall, Lamorna Valley
2011 ‘Otherwise It Will All Be For Nothing’, P. Macbeth Gallery, Penryn
2009 ‘Mark of the Hand’, Trelowarren, Lizard
2008 ‘Subversive Figures’, StISA, St Ives
2007 ‘Submersive Figures’, Penzance
2007 ‘Spontaneous Combustion 2′, StISA St Ives
2006 ‘Spontaneous Combustion 1′, Trelowarren, Lizard
2004 ‘Burning Issues’ Trelowarren, Lizard
Teaching
2005 – 2009 Elected Trustee as Cornwall Crafts Education Advisory Officer
2008 – 2010 Associate Lecturer in Contemporary Ceramic Practice FdA
2002 – 2008 Program Manager/Year Tutor, HND 3D Craft Design – Ceramics
1999 – 2009 Associate Lecturer in Art and Design
1997 – 1999 PGCE teaching practice
Awards
2009 ‘Mark of the Hand’ CUC academic research, Cornwall
2008 ‘Falmouth Gallery Babies project’ 2 year public art commission
www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/jan/05/wild-mums-falmouth-gallery-cornwall
Heritage lottery funded (see press page, paper available). Falmouth, Cornwall
2007 ‘Spontaneous Combustion 2’ Public art project undertaken with Lisa Stewart and Joanna Forsyth, Cornwall College, CUC academic research, European Funding, Arts Council, St Ives, Cornwall
www.artcornwall.org/exhibition_spontaneous_combustion_2.htm
2006 Creative Skills PD grant for Website design sponsorship
2006 ‘Spontaneous Combustion 1’ Public art project undertaken with Lisa Stewart and Joanna Forsyth, Cornwall College, CUC Academic Research, Lizard, Cornwall
www.artcornwall.org/exhibitions%20spontaneous%20combustion.htm
2005 ‘Dispelling the Myth’ Creative Skills PD grant for research trip, London
2004 ‘Burning Issues’ CUC academic research fund (paper available), Lizard
2000 ‘A New Way of Looking at Form and Surface in ceramic’
A project undertaken with Peter Smith, Cornwall College academic research fund
1998 Post Graduate Certificate of Education (Post 16)
1997 Shortlisted for Crafts Council setting up grant
1996-1997 ‘Low fired simulated sawdust firing’ – Research assistant to Peter Smith, Falmouth College of Art Research Award, Ceramic Review (issue No 163).
1996 ‘Setting Out’ – CPA selected UK graduate show, Conran range displayed at Craftsman Potters Association, London
1996 ‘What’s Brewing’? Top UK graduates selected show, Art Connoisseur Gallery
1995 Ceramic Contemporaries II – Styles & Ward Conran Range, 3 Rubber spouted teapots were among 60 exhibits selected from 3,000 undergraduate/post graduate submissions, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
1995 Society of Designer Craftsmen – interview by Kenneth Clarke at Dickensian head office, London
1993 Dartington Trust Fund, Totnes, Devon
1962 National Art Competition. I won the South East junior heat with a ‘Rousseau’ jungle painting (paint box prize presented by Tony Hart on a portable stage at Bentall’s), Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey
Commissions
2008 Falmouth Gallery Babies project, 2 year art project, Heritage Lottery, Cornwall
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/jan/05/wild-mums-falmouth-gallery-cornwall
2007 The Gregg Museum of Folk Art – Requested gift of ceramics, NC, USA
2006 Hidden Art Curated – 21st century interpretation of 19th Century decorative jug for Godolphin House, Lizard, Cornwall
2006 Sand Rose Trust Tiles – 6 assembled tiles for bereaved children’s cottages, Marazion, Cornwall
2005 Redruth Hospital – 6 tile panels for display in new mental health wards, Redruth, Cornwall
2004 Godolphin Arms Ceramic triptych for restaurant, Marazion, Cornwall
1997 Frame Warehouse Piazza – Total redesign and refurbishment, Penryn, Cornwall
1996 Chris Neal Design Ltd ceramic mural – large-scale architectural project, relief sections 6’x 6’ based on industrial/natural landscape/seascape, Truro, Cornwall
1995 Sir Terence Conran, range of tableware for Michelin House, London
1994 Tate Gallery Undergraduate commission with Lubna Chowdhary, St Ives
Publications and Press
2013 ‘Contemporary Tableware’’, (Conran breakfast range inclusion), Linda Bloomfield. Published by Robert Hale (Jan)
2010 ‘Advanced Pottery’, (Surface image inclusion), Linda Bloomfield. Published by Robert Hale (Oct)
2009 Art – A-Z Degrees – Getting Into University, The Independent
www.independent.co.uk/student/into-university/az-degrees/art-1630750.html
2009 ‘Wild Mums find Art’ – Guardian Society, Heritage Lottery funded project
www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/jan/05/wild-mums-falmouth-gallery-cornwall
2009 ‘History in the Making’ Inside Cornwall, Aug, issue number 188
2008 ‘Submersive Figures’ Art Cornwall
www.artcornwall.org/exhibitions/submersive_figures.htm
2008 ‘In the Studio’ Inside Cornwall, Sept 177
2008 ‘Submersive Figures’ Cornwall Culture review by Cath Wallace, August
2008 ‘Children’s tiles help build the future of Falmouth’ – Falmouth Packet, June
2006 ‘Catch this’ Daily Telegraph, May
2006 ‘On the crest of a new Arts Wave’ – The Observer, Nov
2006, ‘Open Studios Cornwall’ – Daily Telegraph Travel Supplement
2004 ‘The History of Studio Pottery’ Inside Cornwall, Jan, issue number 117
2003 ‘Burning Issues’ Cornwall Today, Nov, issue number 115
2003 ‘Linda Styles’ Published to accompany the exhibition at Tate St Ives 25 Oct. 2003 – 25 Jan 2004.
A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library, library of congress number 2003111554, copyright Tate Trustees 2003 all rights reserved
2000 ‘A New Way of Looking at Form and Surface’ CUC academic research fund
1998 ‘British Studio Potters’ Marks’, E. Yates-Owen and R. Fournier – ongoing
1997 ‘Bonfire Brilliance’, Low Fire Simulated Sawdust Firing’ Ceramic Review (163)
1996 ‘Hot Seat’ Cornwall Today, December