Margaret Lovell British, b. 1939
Margaret Lovell is an award-winning sculptor and a Fellow of the Royal British Society of Sculptors. She is a Member of the Royal West of England Academy and in 2012 was awarded an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters by the University of Leicester. Lovell trained at the Slade School of Art in London and the Academy of Fine Art in Florence.
Since the late 1950’s Lovell’s sculpture has been exhibited extensively in the UK. Her first solo exhibition was held in 1965 at the Marjorie Parr Gallery, London, and more recently at the Royal West of England Academy, Bristol. A retrospective exhibition, 50 Years On, was held at Porthminster Gallery, St Ives. Her work was featured in the national touring exhibition, Unpopular Culture, curated by the artist and ceramicist, Grayson Perry. The works for the show were selected from the Arts Council’s collection and Lovell’s sculpture featured in the exhibition’s catalogue.
Lovell’s works engage powerfully with the space and environment it inhabits. Her frequent use of ‘tall, swaying, wafer-thin surfaces takes the flat plane out of a rigid geometric straitjacket and suggests “organic” links to botanical phenomena’.
Margaret Lovell’s works are held in a number of public and private collections throughout the UK, Europe, Australasia and the USA including: City Museum & Art Gallery, Plymouth, The Arts Council of Great Britain, University of London, University of Southampton and The Wallace Arts Trust, Auckland. Lovell is also a member of FIDEM (International Art Medal Federation). In 2016 Lovell relocated to New Zealand where she is represented by Jonathan Grant Gallery, Auckland.
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Margaret LovellLeaf Sail, 2020Bronze - patina recto, polished verso160 x 39.5 x 39.5 cm
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Margaret LovellLove Medal, 2023bronze12.5 x 2.75 cm
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Margaret LovellMessenger of HopeBronze on granite33 x 13 x 15 cm
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Margaret LovellNova Head, 2001Bronze173 x 60 cm
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Margaret LovellOmaha Evening, 2010Bronze on slate11 x 16 x 13.5 cm
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Margaret LovellPrasina Life, 2022Cumbrian Slate & Bronze on Oak43 x 11 x 14.5 cm
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Margaret LovellRiding the Thermals, 2023Bronze & ribbons8 x 7 cm
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Margaret LovellVertical Blade, 2021Bronze on granite68.5 x 14 x 14 cm
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MANZ - Medal Art New Zealand
Our Nature 14 March - 3 April 2023ARTIS Gallery is the host gallery for Medal Art New Zealand (MANZ) – a group of New Zealand’s leading contemporary sculptors. This 2023 biennial exhibition has thirty artists presenting medals and /or small sculptures.Read more -
MANZ - Medal Art New Zealand
A Place to Stand 30 March - 18 April 2021This 2021 biennial exhibition has thirty-one artists presenting medals and /or small sculptures. A diversity is demonstrated in the works that make up this exhibition and is also reflective of...Read more -
John Blackburn & Margaret Lovell
All Fired Up 12 - 25 February 2019Although still going strong at 86, it is both apposite and convenient to propose that John Blackburn’s extraordinary career as a painter is now bookended by fire works. For surely,...Read more