Cathy Pilkington
1925 - 2013
Cathie Pilkington RA (born 31 July 1968) is a London-based British sculptor. She studied at Edinburgh College of Art and the Royal College of Art, and was elected as a Royal Academician in 2014. She became professor of sculpture at the Royal Academy Schools in 2016.
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Pilkington was born in Manchester, England. She attended the art foundation course at North Cheshire College in Warrington (now part of the University of Chester), then went on to study silversmithing at Edinburgh College of Art From 1986.
She graduated with a BA in 1991, with first-class honours, and in the same year was awarded the first John Watson Prize for Art. She also taught in America and India in 1989–1990. She exhibited with the Bruton Gallery in Bath from 1992, and was part of the first Royal West of England Academy Open Sculpture Exhibition in 1993.[2] Pilkington studied at the Royal College of Art in London from 1995, gaining an MA in Sculpture in 1997; she was subsequently awarded the Cheltenham Fine Art Fellowship.
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