Libby Bove graduated with a First-class degree in Fine Art from Bath Spa University in 2024, and is currently undertaking a Graduate Fellowship at Spike Island.
Bove is an artist and designer working across a range of media including ceramics, textiles, sculpture and photography. Her work is centred on repositioning folk customs and magical practices at the forefront of daily life. Drawing on archival methodologies and documentary, her work slips between fact and fiction. By employing traditional craft processes, plausibility is woven into constructed myths; transposing ideas of ancient customs, traditions and rituals into incongruous contemporary settings, non-existent pasts and speculative future landscapes.
Bove has been the recipient of numerous awards including Bloomberg New Contemporaries (2024), The Kenneth Armitage Sculpture Prize (2024), Spike Island Graduate Fellowship (2024), The Hari Art Prize (shortlist, 2024) and The Porthleven Prize (2022). She has exhibited her work widely and recent exhibitions include: The Museum of Roadside Magic, (Touring, 2024); Lore & Land, Walcot Chapel (2024); Therapeutic Landscapes, Worcester University (2024); So Turns the Wheel of the M.O.T. (solo, 2023), The Oracles, Michael Pennie Gallery (solo, 2022).
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