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Dido Crosby is a sculptor living and working in London, taking commissions in bronze, cast iron, ceramics and wood. After completing a Zoology degree at Oxford University, a Welding diploma at Poplar and a second BA in Sculpture at Central St Martin’s, Crosby is pursuing a lifetime’s interest in animals, with a fascination for form, function, and making things.
Crosby has a series of life-sized cast iron pieces at Acton Court, a Tudour banqueting hall in Iron Acton, a larger than life bronze horse overlooking Loch Fyne at Dunderave Castle in Scotland, and a bronze gazelle in a sculpture park in Liguria, Italy. Other pieces in public collections include a pair of Indian Runner Ducks bought by Prudential, a skeleton reconstruction and life-sized sculpture of a manatee in a museum of natural history in Puerto Rico, and a carved wooden dragon’s head in a garden for visually impaired children in Bristol.
Crosby’s work is exhibited at Jagged Art in Marylebone in London, The Campden Gallery in Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, and Big/Small, Casual in New York.
2016 ‘Metalic’ Burghley Sculpture Garden, Lincolnshire
2015 ‘Elemental’ Sculpture Park, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
2015 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
2015 Henley Festival, Henley
2015 Mythic Sculpture at Stone Lane Gardens and Arboretum, Chagford, Devon
2014 The Horse in Art, Mall Galleries, London
2014 The Sculpture Park, Churt, Surrey
2014 The Great British Sculpture Show, Hatfield House, Hertfordshire
2014 Summer Sculpture, Hillier Gardens, Hampshire
2014 Lucy Campbell in Chelsea, London
2013 ‘Winter Show’ Jaggedart, Marylebone, London
2012 ‘Voyage North’ The Eagle Gallery, Farringdon, London
2012 ‘A Change of Seasons’, Jaggedart, Marylebone, London
2012 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
2011 Campden Gallery, Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire
2011 Opening Exhibition, The Marle Gallery, Axminster, Devon
2011 ‘Sculpture at Lord’s Wood’ Messum’s, Marlow, Buckinghamshire
2010 ‘5th Show’ Big & Small/Casual Gallery, Long Island City, New York
2009 ‘The Dog Show’, Dollar Street Gallery, Cirencester, Gloucestershire
2009 ‘Dog Show’ The Globe Theatre, Bankside, London
2009 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
2009 Campden Gallery, Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire
2009 ‘Beast’, Jaggedart, Marylebone, London
2007 Campden Gallery, High Street, Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire
2007 ‘Art et Jardin’, Langham Fine Art, Hillwatering, Langham, Suffolk
2007 ‘The Far Horizon’, Jaggedart, Marylebone, London
2004 and 2005 Csaky Art, Arndean Gallery, Cork Street, London
2004 ‘New Grafton Gallery in the Country’, West Sussex
2003 ‘Zodiac’, with Csaky Art, Arndean Gallery, Cork Street, London
2002 ‘Menagerie’ with Csaky Art Arndean Gallery, Cork Street, London
2000 ‘Harbour Point 2000’, Rye Harbour, East Sussex
1996 – 1999 Christmas, Spring and Summer Shows, Gallery Duncan Terrace, London
1992 Windows Gallery, Central St Martin’s, Charing Cross Road, London
1991 ‘12 Artists’, The Eagle Gallery, London
1990 Whitechapel Open, London
1989 – 1990 Ann Stokes, Christmas Shows, Hampstead, London
1991-96 BA Fine Art, Sculpture, Central St Martin’s College of Art and Design
1981-84 BA (Hons) Zoology, St Hilda’s College, Oxford
1973-80 Bedales School, Petersfield, Hants
1961 Born 9th December, London
Sheep Heads, 2016, the River Room, the Swan Restaurant at Shakespeare’s Globe, London
Old English Billygoat, 2012, Thenford Arbouretum, South Northamptonshire
White Gazelle, 2010 winner of the Bernard Noble Sculpture Prize, Colletta, Italy
Dunderave Horse, 2005, bronze, Loch Fyne, Argyll, Scotland
Pair of Barn Owls, 2005, bronze, Acton Court, Iron Acton, Bristol
Iron Heifer and Iron Sow and Piglets, 2002, cast iron, Acton Court, Iron Acton, Bristol
Mary, Mother of the World, roundel, 2000, Jesmonite, glass fibre, acrylic and gold leaf, St Mary’s Primary School, Enfold Street, London
Indonesian Cow, 1999, Jesmonite glass fibre, The Conquest Hospital, Hastings, Sussex
Four Falcon Finials and a pair of Acanthus Leaf Balls, 1996, stone, Shakespeare’s Globe, Southwark, London
Dragon Head and Tail, 1996, carved reclaimed teak and marbles, in a garden for visually impaired children, the Woodside Family Centre, Kingswood, Bristol
Beef Heifer, 1995, GRP and gold leaf, Tseh O’Hora, Kiltimheh, Co. Mayo, Ireland
Standing Stag, 1994, bronze, in the foyer of the Gloucester Hotel, London
Athene Owls, 1994, two pairs in brass, The Barbican Centre, London
Steel Eagle, 1993, on The Eagle Public House, Farringdon Road, London
Manatee, 1992, skeleton reconstruction and sculpture, Fidelcomiso de Conservacion de Puerto Rico, Faro, Fejardo, Puerto Rico
Four Dogs Heads water spouts, 1992, bronze, on a fountain, Plaza Centre, Rotterdam
