Born in Northumberland in 1965, Billie Bond grew up in Essex and has recently moved to Suffolk. An early career in nursing gave her an appreciation of human anatomy, which she considers sensitively in her figurative representations.
2018 selected Member Royal Society of Sculptors, 2021 selected member Society of Portrait Sculptors.
Billie gained an MA in Sculptural Practice 2016 and a 1st class Honours Degree in 3D Design 2011 at Colchester School of Art. She was also awarded a research residency at the Henry Moore Institute Leeds.
Her 20 years experience as a designer-maker includes designing children’s furniture, interiors, interior decorating and painting murals. During studies, her creative ideas were expressed in the form of figurative sculpture.
Billie won the Pure Arts Sculpture Prize in 2013, with the winning piece A Link With The Past being exhibited in a curated space at Saatchi Gallery, London as part of the Strarta art fair. The work is now part of the Birth Rites collection residing at Kings College, London.
Billie has work in public and private collections around the world.
