About
Linda Bowden
Since graduating from the National Art School, Darlinghurst, NSW, Australia, in 1999 Linda has been actively pursuing a career in teaching and making sculpture. She has exhibited in various group shows, solo shows and has been awarded a number of prizes including a UNESCO residential fellowship at the atelier Four-Winds in Provence, France in 2005. She has been selected to exhibit in Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi and Cottesloe, Australia her initial entry being in 2000 and in 2012 she became the first woman sculptor to join “The decade club” having exhibited ten or more times in the show. She has two public works, View with a room in Hunter’s Park, Bondi, NSW and Into the trees, pier 8/9 Walsh Bay Arts Precinct, Hickson Road, the Rocks. In 2013 her work The others was a finalist in the Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of NSW. She has been a sessional teacher at the National Art School, Darlinghurst since 2010.
Solo Exhibitions
2015
Passages, Maunsell Wickes, Paddington
2012
The fifth, Maunsell Wickes, Paddington
2011
Views from home, Studio W, Woolloomooloo
2010
Sculpting the urban, Seek Fine Art, Paddington
2007
Sculpture and other observations, blank_space gallery, Darlinghurst, NSW.
2005
Ateliers four-winds, Provence, France.
Exhibitions
2015
Sculpture by the sea, Bondi NSW
Winter show, Sculpture by the Sea, NSW
2014
Winter show, Sculpture by the Sea, NSW
Group Show, Maunsell Wickes, Paddington
2013
Sculpture by the sea, Bondi
Finalist Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of NSW
Group show, Maunsell Wickes, Paddington
2012
Sculpture in the vineyards, Wollombi
Sculpture by the sea, Bondi
Sculpture, MiCK, Paddington
From the vault, Friends of National Art School, Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick
2011
Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi, NSW.
Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe, WA
2010
Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi, NSW.
Sculpture Inside, Orange Regional Gallery
2009
Parklife Festival, Sydney NSW
Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi, NSW.
Red, Gallery @28, Paddington, Sydney.
landscape, Gallery @28, Paddington, Sydney.
sculpture 2009, Global Gallery, Paddington, Sydney.
Drawcard, National Art School, Darlinghurst Sydney
2008
In the elements, group show, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney
Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe, WA.
Drawcard, National Art School, Darlinghurst Sydney
five lands walk, Avoca Beach. Invited Artist.
Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi
2007
Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi, NSW.
2006
Drawcard, National Art School, Darlinghurst, NSW.
Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi, NSW.
2005
ASX Exchange Square.
2004
Life Drawing by Sculptors, Two Step Gallery, Newtown, NSW.
Stanthorpe Arts Festival, Queensland, Australia
Sculpture 2004, Campbelltown Regional Gallery, NSW.
Spectrum 2004, Parliament House, Sydney, NSW.
2003
Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi, NSW.
Miniature Sculpture Show, Defiance Gallery, Enmore, NSW.
Four Threads, Two Step Gallery, Newtown, NSW.
2002
Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi, NSW.
Miniature Sculpture Show, Defiance Gallery, Enmore, NSW.
Sculpting the Urban, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Gymea, NSW.
Waverley Art Prize, Bondi, NSW.
2001
Sculpture in the City, Martin Place, Sydney, NSW.
Miniature Sculpture Show, Defiance Gallery, Enmore, NSW.
Sculpture from the Sea, Campbelltown, Hazelhurst and Wollongong Regional Galleries, NSW.
Mixed Business, Newtown, NSW.
Mixed Business II, Enmore, NSW.
Alumination, NAS Alumni show, Cell Block Theatre, Darlinghurst, NSW.
Sculpture on the Beach, Thirroul, NSW.
2000
Sculpturescape, ABC Atrium, Sydney, NSW.
Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi, NSW.
Miniature Sculpture Show, Defiance Gallery, Enmore, NSW.
Willoughby Art Prize, Willoughby, NSW.
Six, ABC Atrium Gallery, Sydney, NSW.
1999
Miniature Sculpture Show, Defiance Gallery, Enmore, NSW.
Waverley Art Prize, Bondi, NSW.
1998
Waverley Art Prize, Bondi, NSW.
Inaugural Sydney Airport 2000 NAS Exhibition, Sydney, NSW.
Education
1996 – 1999 B Fine Arts (Sculpture) National Art School, Sydney, NSW.
1990 – 1994 M Social Work University of Sydney, NSW.
1978 – 1981 B Social Studies (Hons) University of Sydney, NSW.
Commissions
2013 Sculpture by the Sea Private Patrons Miniature Series.
2003 Sculpture by the Sea Private Patrons Miniature Series.
Public Work
2012 Pier 8/9, The Wharf District, Sydney
2008 Waverley Council – Hunter’s Park, Bondi
Awards
2012 Sculpture by the sea, Decade Club
2011 Art Gallery Society of NSW Prize Sculpture by the Sea Bondi
2010 Art Gallery Society of NSW Prize Sculpture by the Sea Bondi
2007 The Clitheroe Foundation Mentor Program (Sculpture by the Sea).
2006 Australian Unrepresented Sculptor Award, (Sculpture by the Sea).
2005 UNESCO-ASCHBERG Residency, France.
2002 Waverley Council Prize (Sculpture by the Sea).
Reviews/Publications
Sculpture by the sea, the first fifteen years 1997 – 2011, Sculpture by the sea Inc. 2011
Art Gallery Society of New South Wales “Look” magazine, February 2011
Christopher Allen “Random works miss their mark”, The Australian, 5 November 2010
John McDonald “Signs of new life along the shore”, Sydney Morning Herald, November 6-7 2010
John McDonald “Insouciance by the sea” Sydney Morning Herald, October 25-26 2008
Collections
Private collections throughout Australia including noted art collectors.