Christine Burgess
IT IS WITH GREAT SADNESS THAT OXFORD SCULPTORS GROUP REPORT THAT CHRISTINE BURGESS PASSED AWAY ON THE 19TH JANUARY 2018. THIS PAGE ON THIS WEBSITE WILL REMAIN FOR A WHILE, AS A MEMORIAL.
Christine Burgess was born in Manchester, and educated in Cheshire. She qualified in Sculpture and Ceramics at Manchester College of Art, where she won a Lady Whitworth Scholarship, and obtained Art Teaching qualifications. On moving to Wiltshire, then Oxford, she taught young people and adults at a number of Art Schools in the region. She taught at Sunningwell School of Art from 1986, initially specialising in Sculpture, but later teaching Drawing and Painting from the figure.
Christine’s distinctive, mainly weatherproof, ceramic sculpture is well known and respected in Oxford and Oxfordshire. She has also exhibited in London (Mall Galleries – RSBA, Discerning Eye, and St. Martin’s Gallery), Bristol (Royal West of England Academy), Birmingham, Cheltenham and Bath. She has work in collections in Ireland, France, Holland, Sweden, Japan and the USA.
She was Chair of Oxford Art Society and Co-ordinator of Oxford Confederation of Artists & Makers. Christine had been a member of OSG since its inception.
More recently she had been concentrating on more of her own work, and helping to promote sculpture exhibitions at the Turrill Sculpture Garden, Oxford.
Christine Burgess was born in Manchester, and educated in Cheshire. She qualified in Sculpture and Ceramics at Manchester College of Art, where she won a Lady Whitworth Scholarship, and obtained Art Teaching qualifications. On moving to Wiltshire, then Oxford, she taught young people and adults at a number of Art Schools in the region. She taught at Sunningwell School of Art from 1986, initially specialising in Sculpture, but later teaching Drawing and Painting from the figure.
Christine’s distinctive, mainly weatherproof, ceramic sculpture is well known and respected in Oxford and Oxfordshire. She has also exhibited in London (Mall Galleries – RSBA, Discerning Eye, and St. Martin’s Gallery), Bristol (Royal West of England Academy), Birmingham, Cheltenham and Bath. She has work in collections in Ireland, France, Holland, Sweden, Japan and the USA.
She was Chair of Oxford Art Society and Co-ordinator of Oxford Confederation of Artists & Makers. Christine had been a member of OSG since its inception.
More recently she had been concentrating on more of her own work, and helping to promote sculpture exhibitions at the Turrill Sculpture Garden, Oxford.