Christy Symington
Christy Symington MRSS is a London based sculptor. She is a Member of the Royal British Society of Sculptors (Council Member 2003-2007). Her sculpture has been acquired for Permanent Collection by International Slavery Museum in Liverpool, Royal Museums Greenwich and UK Parliament. 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 she took her MA in Fine Art at Byam Shaw [now Central St Martins], University of the Arts London. She has a PGCE degree (Postgraduate Certificate in Education) from Lewisham College certified by Canterbury Christ Church University and teaches and mentors in several UK art colleges and schools. Head of Sculpture (2013-2016) and Tutor since 2002 at The Art Academy London. Exhibits regularly in the UK and overseas.
