April Young Artist CV
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April Young was born in Cumbria in 1972. She spent most of her childhood moving around the country and the globe living in places as diverse as Newcastle-on-Tyne and Cape Town, South Africa.
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trained in Glasgow before setting up a studio in England in 2007. Today, she is an established British sculptor producing expressive, figurative pieces in a variety of materials from clay to foundry bronze. Her art work is concerned with the expression of life through figurative study. Movement and the natural world, in particular sensitive, yet unsentimental animal studies are a strong feature in April's sculptures. Her concepts are often enriched by her love of literature, folklore and mythology.
Talking about her work April says:"My work utilises both 2D and sculptural media to explore the role of mythologies in a contemporary context. I’m interested in the durability and cross pollination of stories, and the relationship between real and imagined times, people and places. I attempt to place my work at the crossover between classical mythology - the stories that have endured for millennia - and contemporary experience, which continuously adds its own chapter to the legacy of storytelling."
April Young has been commissioned to produce sculptures in a number of materials and to various scales from small works for giftware (mass production) for Border Fine Arts, to life-sized bronze figures as a corporate commission for Morgan Stanley.
As well as being held in private art collections in the UK, Ireland, Germany, Holland, the United States and New Zealand, her sculptures have been exhibited at galleries throughout England, Scotland and Ireland, including at major regional Art Fairs such as AAF London, Art Ireland and Glasgow Art Fair each year.
April Young has participated in many mixed exhibitions including at the Royal Academy in Bristol. Her sculptural work was most recently selected for the 'Handmade in Britain' Show along with eight other artists at the British Embassy in India.
