Christy Symington MRSS is a London based sculptor. Member of Royal Society of Sculptors (Board Director 2003-2007) in London. Her sculpture is in the permanent art collections of Parliament UK, Royal Museums Greenwich UK and the International Slavery Museum in Liverpool UK and was a highlight of ISM's 10th Anniversary Exhibition in 2017. From 1996 Christy studied traditional figure sculpture and life drawing in Paris at Les Ateliers Beaux-Arts Montparnasse and Glaciere, Ecole Superieure des Arts Appliques Duperre and L'ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts and previously at Kensington and Chelsea College, London. Following this she spent 4 years in New York and graduated in 2001 from the New York Studio School with Merit Award for Sculpture, during which she was the selected sculpture student for the exchange programme to the Slade School of Art, London. Returning to London in September 2001 she took her MA in Fine Art at Byam Shaw [now Central St Martins], University of the Arts London. She left New York a few days before the tragic events of September 11th 2001 and in the following months in London she made the sculpture 'Remembrance 911' (2002) HxWxD 210x62x45cm. In 2001 she was awarded a Fellowship residency at the Vermont Studio Center, USA. Head of Sculpture and Senior Tutor at The Art Academy London 2002-2018. Solo exhibitions include Stephen Lawrence Centre in 2016 and 2015, Marist College NY (duo), Angel Orensanz Foundation NY and featured in the ‘Black Georgians’ exhibition at the Black Cultural Archives in 2016. Exhibitions numbering over a hundred, include Salon d'Automne Paris, Messums Wiltshire, Society of Portrait Sculptors, Young Masters Prize Tour, Society of Women Artists, Chatham Historic Dockyards, Threadneedle Prize, The National Arts Club NY (Paul Manship Award), Freedom to Create Prize, V&A, Royal West of England Academy Sculpture Triennial, Pangolin London, The Great American Women’s Sculpture Park NY and Royal British Society of Sculptors Centenary Exhibition, University of Leicester. Images © Christy Symington MRSS / DACS 2019