Bex’s CV

  • 2024 – Exhibiting at Craftworks in Shoreditch Town Hall for London Craft Week
  • 2024 – Exhibited Ferrous Festival. Commonalities of Difference
  • 2023 – Exhibited at the Oxo Tower, South Bank London with Future Icons for London Craft week
  • 2023 – Exhibited at the V&A London for Qest fundraising evening event
  • 2022 – Brunswick Wharf Gates Public Art, Bideford
  • 2021 – Covent Garden Brewers Yard Gate, Langley street, London
  • 2021 – Boston Buoys public art commission
  • 2019 – Eastleigh Public Art commission
  • 2019 – Awarded the Tonypandy Cup
  • 2019 – Studied courses at The Princess school of traditional Arts, London
  • 2018 – Exhibited at the National Centre for Craft and design, Sleaford ‘Women’s Work’
  • 2018 – Qest Scholarship
  • 2017 – Merit- level 3 DFS Blacksmith
  • 2017 – Westminster Magistrates Court public art commission for the Ministry of Justice
  • 2016 – Diploma of merit from the Worshipful Company of Blacksmiths
  • 2014 – Exhibited at Craft Central in Clerkenwell, London ‘ Total Fabrication’
  • 2014 – Resident Artist Blacksmith on TV program Money for Nothing
  • 2013 – Entrance gates and railings commission lucy Cavendish college Cambridge
  • 2011 – Launched a cast iron kitchen accessories range
  • 2010 – TV program High Street Dreams with Jo Malone
  • 2009 – Sculpture for Kidlington Shopping Centre
  • 2008 – Milton Keynes Hospital, Cambell Centre- designed and built the perimeter fencing and gate for Milton Keynes PCT’s in-patient mental health unit.
  • 2001 – Awarded two bursaries from the Worship Company of Blacksmith.
  • 2000 – Nominated for the Enterprise Prince’s Trust Award
  • 1999 – Established the business with a start-up loan from the Princes Trust

Education

  • 2019           Prince’s Foundation School of Traditional Arts, 5 short courses in Geometry
  • 2017-2015   Herefordshire and Ludlow College – level 3 diploma in advanced forge work DFS
  • 1998-1996   Hereford College of Technology – Diploma and National Certificate
  • 1995-1992   Surrey Institute of Art and Design – BA awarded Three-Dimensional Design in Metal
  • 1992-1991   Surrey Institute of Art and Design – Foundation