Contact details
Telephone 01493 602698
Mobile 07818557393
e-mail b.herizsmith@btinternet.com
Address: 145 Southtown Road, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, NR31 0LA.
I would like to acknowledge my gratitude to the photographer Peter Huggins for all the more distinguished photographs of my 3D work since 2002 which is featured on this site. https://huggins.co.uk
Training
1974-77 Ravensbourne College of Art and Design, BA Hons. (2:1)
1973 Goldsmiths College, University of London, Foundation in Art
Award
Creative Contemporary Art Award, Aspire, 2015
Selected from list of Solo and Group Shows
Please see Exhibitions page for more recent shows up to 2023
2017 ’50yrs of Making’, Skippings Gallery, Great Yarmouth, one-man show
2016 ‘Millenial Muse Blues’, Merchant House Gallery, Lowestoft, (solo)
2015 ‘Great Yarmouth 5’, Skippings Gallery, Great Yarmouth
2014 ‘The Judgement of Paris’ at the Merchant House Gallery, Lowestoft, (solo).
2014 ‘Masked’, Halesworth Gallery, Steeple End, Halesworth, Suffolk (solo).
2013 ‘Bruer Tidman and Bridget Heriz’ at Wymondham Art Centre
2011 ‘Yarmouth Five’, Wymondham Arts Centre (group)
2011 ‘John Kiki and Bridget Heriz’, Mandells Gallery, Norwich
2010 ‘Gaze’, Mandells Gallery, Norwich (3 man show)
2008 ‘Walk On’, The New Cut, Halesworth, Suffolk (solo)
2008 ‘Five’, Out There International Festival, Great Yarmouth (group)
2006-08 Ethna Dillon, Norwich, (4 2-man shows)
2005 Mills & Reeve, Norwich
2004 ‘3-D exhibition’, Lowestoft Warehouse Collective, (four-man)
2003 Chappel Galleries, Essex (solo)
2003 ‘Bearing 090Ç’ ‘Dialogues’, VI International Exhibition, St. Petersburg.
2002-2003 Artworks, Bury St. Edmunds
1993-2002 Suffolk Group, Peter Pears Gallery, Aldeburgh, and elsewhere
2002 ‘3 Dimensions’, Room Upstairs, Christchurch Mansion (solo)
1998 Chilford Sculpture Park, Cambridgeshire (solo)
1996 Cinema Garden, Aldeburgh, Suffolk (solo)
1995 ‘Bearing 090Ç’, La LouviÇre, Belgium and RiihimÉki, Finland
1990-1994 ‘Young Blood’, Ipswich
1992,`86,`81 Halesworth Gallery, Suffolk (three-man)
1991 Bircham Gallery, Norfolk (solo)
1986 ‘Fish, Flesh & Fowl’, Wolsey Gallery, Ipswich Borough Council, (three-man)
Selected from list of Mixed Exhibitions
2018 ‘Inheritance’, Norwich Castle Open
2017 ‘Seeing Through Drawing. A Celebration of John Berger’, Mandells Gallery, Norwich
2017 ‘Abstracted’, NCAS curated exhibition at Mannington Hall, Norfolk
2017 ‘Bronze’, Pear Tree Farm, Ilketshall St. Andrew, Suffolk
2016 ‘A Figurative Presence’, Mandells Gallery, Norwich
2015 Annual Sculpture Show, Becket’s Chapel, Wymondham
2014 ‘Inspired by Birds’, Norwich Castle Open
2014 ‘Cley 14, A Creative Conversation’, St. Margaret’s Church, Cley, Norfolk
2016 River Waveney Sculpture Trail, Beccles
2012-15 N20 at the Forum, Norwich
2012 ‘Halesworth Arts Festival’ at The Cut, Halesworth
2012 ‘Rivers and Valleys’, Waveney and Blyth Arts at Craftco, Southwold
2012 ‘Span’, Gt. Yarmouth Arts Festival
2011 ‘Facing Hard Times’, Greyfriars Art Space, Kings Lynn (OOTB Curators)
2011 ‘Littoral’, Chalk Hill Contemporary Art Summer Show, Guildford
2011 ‘Inspirations 2011, New Art from East Anglia’, Jarrolds, Norwich
2011 ‘Have I Got Nudes for You’, Harleston Gallery
2009 Chalk Hill Gallery, Guildford
2009 Sculpture at The Chappel Galleries, Essex
2008 ‘Romance’, Kowalski Gallery, London
2007 Jerwood Drawing Prize 2007, London
2007 ‘Out of the Earth’, outdoor sculpture exhibition, North Walsham
2006 ‘Beyond the Call of Duty’, Town Hall Galleries, Ipswich
2006 Salthouse 06, North Norfolk
2005 Targetfollow, London
2004, `05 ‘Fringe at the Factory’, Norwich Fringe Festival
1997, `05 Bergh Apton Sculpture Trail, Norfolk
2003 ‘10 ans de bouteille’, Quinconce, Belgium (guest)
2000 ‘Roots 66’, Halesworth Gallery Retrospective
1999 ‘This is 1999’, `Room Upstairs’, Christchurch Mansion, IAS
1997,`98 Summer Show, Mercury Gallery, Cork St., London
1997 Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
1997 Piers Feetham Gallery at Hill Lodge, Aldeburgh
1997 Ernst & Young Spring Exhibition, Cambridge
1997 Ainscough Contemporary Art Gallery, London
1993,`85 East Anglian Open, Fermoy Gallery, Kings Lynn
1992,`88 Royal Academy Summer Show, Piccadilly
1989,`82,`79 ‘Sculpture in Anglia’, Corn Exchange, Ipswich Borough Council
1984 London Group, Royal College
Public Commissions
Fisher Girl, Blackfriars Road, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, bronze
OOCL Monument, Levington, Suffolk, stone
Mother & Child, Cobholm & Lichfield Resource Centre, Great Yarmouth, stone
Dove, St. James Church, Great Yarmouth
Public Collection:
Great Yarmouth Museums Art Collection, NCC
Targetfollow, Norwich
New Hall Art Collection, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge
Ipswich Borough Art Collection
Membership
Norwich 20; DACS
A member of Suffolk Group 1993-2002; Young Blood, 1990-1994; Bearing 090 1994-2005;
Clock House Association of Artists 1982-86
Publications
2017 Bridget Heriz, by Amanda Geitner,Selwyn Taylor Publishing, ISBN 978-1-527212633
2017 Seeing Through Drawing, A Celebration of John Berger, Objectif
2015 Article in Aspire Magazine, Issue 408. Aspire Certificate Winner.
2011 How Artists See People, Green Pebble, ISBn 978-0-955814730
2008 Artist in Our Midst, Suffolk and Norfolk, Green Pebble, ISBN 978-0-9558147-0-9
2007 Green Pebble, Spring 2007
2004 NOMI, 4/39/2004, St. Petersburg, www.worldart.ruk, ISSN 1650-8697
2003 Dialogues, ManÄge, St. Petersburg, ISBN 5-94400-006-7
1992,’96,’03 Art Collection, New Hall, University of Cambridge, ISBN 0 9507108 4 9
2002 Making the Connection, Artists of Essex & Suffolk, Firstsite and Wolsey Art
Gallery, ISBN 0 948252-13-8
1992 Sphinx 4, London Convivium, ISBN 0953 6582
Television
Participated in ‘Moving Art’ (1991), ‘The Biz’ (2002) and ‘Artefacts’ (2003), Anglia TV
Video
2006 Words and Images, Quill Writing Group and ARC, produced by Mark Sargeant
1995 Bearing 090É, produced by Gary Wornell
Commissioned work
Many commissions have been undertaken since 1979 for private, business and corporate clients, including churches, both indoor and outdoor sculpture, small to life-size figures and other works in bronze or other materials appropriate to purpose.
Education, community art activities and family and school workshops Recent activities include the giant swimming costumes installation for the Great Yarmouth Out There Festival 2012, working with Bui Bolg; Great Yarmouth Arts Festival 2012; collage workshop with pupils from Edward Worlledge Junior School, Great Yarmouth, 2012; 3 days workshops in wire and card construction with members of Thalia Theatre Company, 2011.
Project Delivery
Co-initiated & administered various projects, the latest being the HLF funded and nationally acclaimed Great Yarmouth Cemeteries Project (2013); also Conversations from the Edge, 25 Great Yarmouth Artists (2011), Transitions (Great Yarmouth 2010), ARC Artists Group, Great Yarmouth; Bearing 090É (European Artists Exchange) with `Quinconce’ (Leiston and La Louviere, 1995); and Clock House Artists Association and exhibitions `Sculpture in the Meadow’ (1984), `CHAA 1 and 2′ (1991-2),
Catalogued the life’s work and assisted in ‘Ivor Roberts-Jones Retrospective’, Wolsey Gallery, IBS (1999) ‘Jane Truzzi-Franconi Retrospective’, Wolsey Gallery, IBC (1996). Curated retrospective exhibitions of the work of Peter Frazer Davies (2005) and Audrey Pilkington (2013) at The Cut in Halesworth.