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My figurative work, in particular the portrait, is concerned with identity and a personal obsession of revealing the concealed, repairing the broken and exploring ideas of duality.

I try to translate an inner being through a disrupted surface, creating new and different visual conversations.

Processes of destruction and repair investigate aspects of trauma and healing, rejuvenation and change.

From figurative realism to material led abstraction I am discovering ways of paralleling the process of making with

altered states and adapted minds in a quest to explore what it is to be human.

Born in Northumberland in 1965, grew up in Essex and continues to live there now. An early career in nursing gave Billie an appreciation of human anatomy, which she considers sensitively in her figurative representations.
In 2018 elected as a member of Royal Society of Sculptors. 2019 just completed a large international collaborative Kintsugi commission - ‘Breaking Depression’ with Janssen EMEA (Johnson and Johnson) and Gamain – Europe. Also in 2019 Bond was shortlisted for the NHS Mersey Care, Rowan View Hospital commission.

Billie has completed an MA in Sculptural Practice from Essex University (2016). She gained a 1st class Honors’ Degree in 3D Design & Craft followed by a PGCE with Distinction in 2012 at Colchester School of Art. Her 20 years experience as a designer-maker includes designing children’s furniture, interiors, interior decorating and painting murals. During studies, her creative ideas were expressed in the form of figurative sculpture. She has guest-lectured in portrait sculpture at The Art Academy, London as well as running her own sculpture classes.

Her work, ‘A Portrait of Chelmsford’ is in the Chelmsford Museum collection; the museum also currently has selected work from Billie’s portfolio on continuous exhibition.
In 2009 Billie sculpted her sister, who has Downs Syndrome, on the 4th Plinth in Trafalgar Square as part of Anthony Gormley’s ‘One & Other’. The sculpture highlighted the importance music and dance has in her life.

She won the Pure Arts sculpture award 2013, with the winning piece ‘A Link With the Past’ being exhibited in a curated space at the Saatchi Gallery, London as part of the Strarta art Fair Oct 2013 and is now part of the Birth Rites Collection formerly at Salford University and now at Kings College London.
Billie was commissioned to create a Lionel Riche caricature portrait for Channel 4 Alan Carr’s Chattyman.

A two-week internship at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds, assisting Dr Jon Wood in the research of Self-Portrait Sculpture is the beginning of an academic path which Billie will be further involved with in the future.