Camilla Bliss
Overview
“I regularly draw on motifs found in historical craftsmanship, myth and folklore to communicate ideas about the modern world, placing an importance of the handmade yet also referencing our relationship to digital technology.” – Camilla Bliss
Using a wide range of materials, such as ceramics, metalwork, glass, textiles, mist and 3D printing, Camilla Bliss is interested in how we navigate the world. Through her playful work she seeks to investigate alternate ways of being. Predominantly through sculpture, she creates characters with a range of personalities that act akin to deities or spirits. They embody a range of emotions and states, building a relationship between the world of the terrestrial and the realm of consciousness. They are also a bridge between the human and non-human, at once both familiar and otherworldly,
Spanning a huge range of scales, Bliss’s work is not easy to categorise. She often conceals intricate details within large works, encouraging viewers to contemplate her pieces slowly and seek features which not be immediately noticeable. One's experienced of her work is fluid, moving between moments of macro and micro. Indeed, this notion of fluidity is key to her practice, one which explores the expansive space beyond the recognisable and knowable.
Biography
Camilla Bliss (b.1989, London) lives and works in London. She graduated with an MA in sculpture from the Royal College of Art in 2021, the same year as she received the Yorkshire Sculpture Park Graduate Award. In 2022, she was shortlisted for the Ingram Prize and the Mark Tanner Sculpture Award. She has presented two previous solo exhibitions, SWELL at 87 Gallery in Hull, 2021 and Closed Curtain at the Barbican Arts Group Trust in London, 2017. Her work has been presented at multiple art fairs including MiArt Fair, Milan (2023) and The Eye of the Collector, London (2022).
Her work has been included in group exhibitions by galleries and curatorial projects including: Warbling Collective, London (2023); Victoria Law Projects, London (2023), Direktorenhaus, Berlin (2023); A.i Gallery, London (2023 and 2022); Saatchi Gallery, London (2022 and 2021); Fishers Court Gallery, London (2022); Liliya Gallery, London (2022); D Contemporary, London (2021); Standpoint Gallery, London (2021 and 2019); Alice Black Gallery, London (2021); San Mei Gallery, London (2020); Podium, Luxembourg, London (2019); The Royal Academy, London (2018) and Turner Contemporary, Margate (2018). She is also the co-founder of curatorial collective HAZE, which helps support emerging artists.
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