Bridget McCrum was born in 1934 and went on to train as a painter with Lesjek Musjynski at Farnham School of Art, England, in the 1950s. From 1980 she began to primarily work in stone, having learned her craft from John Joeku and Andrea Schulewitz on the South Downs. McCrum also works with bronze, a metal she uses in order to…
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Bridget McCrum was born in 1934 and went on to train as a painter with Lesjek Musjynski at Farnham School of Art, England, in the 1950s. From 1980 she began to primarily work in stone, having learned her craft from John Joeku and Andrea Schulewitz on the South Downs. McCrum also works with bronze, a metal she uses in order to cast many of her stone pieces.
McCrum's work is included in many and various national and international collections including: the University of Surrey; Priors Court School, Newbury; Lismore Castle, County Cork; HSBC, Malta; Spencer Stuart, London; Charter Bank, London; the Golden Door Foundation, San Diego; the Isle of Bryher, Isles of Scilly; National Trust Gardens, Isles of Scilly; The Homewood, Esher; Greenway House, Devon; Coleton Fishacre, Devon; and private collections in the USA, Far East, Middle East and Europe.
In 2007 McCrum was elected as a member of The Royal West of England Academy. In the same year she also received a commission from Rolls Royce for a public sculpture to be placed outside of their Bristol factory.
Originally influenced by early votaries and ancient axe-heads her work now reflects the flora and fauna that surround her, evidenced by her works which frequently allude to birds and animals.
McCrum's lifelong fascination with ancient artefacts finds an imaginative outlet in her own sculpture. The simplified stone carvings of prehistoric cultures have been a source of inspiration to her artistic practice, as have the condensed shapes of Cycladic art and the lucidly economical sculpture of Constantin Brancusi and Barbara Hepworth.
