Gigi Salomon is a multidisciplinary artist working across a range of media with a specialism in stone carving. She took the Sculpture Diploma at Heatherleys School of Art which included drawing and printmaking. She has exhibited widely throughout the UK, notably at the German Embassy in London, Sotheby’s London and the Dorset Museum & Art Gallery.

With her grounding in formal skills, Gigi has developed experimental techniques incorporating optics, light, found objects and natural materials; her work makes use of stone, linen, metal, wood and natural pigments. Central to her practice is an investigation into the parallels between our contemporary present lives and the past lives of our ancestors seen in reliefs uncovered in archaeological trenches, features embedded in the landscape, and the accumulated layers of occupation on any one site.

EXHBITIONS

2025        Dorset Open, Dorset Museum & Art Gallery, Dorchester (stone carving)

2025        Green & Stone Summer Exhibition, London (stone carving)

2021         Dark Skies Festival, Central Australia (sculpture open air animations)

2020        Strategy Get Arts at Summerhall, Edinburgh

2019         Sotheby’s (exhibition of contemporary art), London

2018         Doorways, Bath Arts Festival, Bath

2018         In a Country far, far away, London; travelled to Germany

2017         Frieze Art Fringe: Taste the Future, German Embassy, London

2017         Human (contemporary British artists), German Embassy, London

2016         Art Attack Exhibition, St Pancras Parish Church, London

2015         Berlin-London Contemporary Art by Women, German Embassy, London

2015         Remembrance, St Martins Church Gospel Oak, London

2014         The Second Half Centre London

2013         Open Studio, Hewer Street

ARTS CAREER

1991-94    Callander Communications – Founder of public relations and marketing for the Arts

1982-91    Radio 3 & 4, Producer / Writer / Presenter – documentaries and features on the Arts

1979         John David Mooney Sculptor – part of installation team of ¼ mile long land light sculpture for the exhibition American Art in ’70s,Zagreb, Yugoslavia

1977-8      Jonathan Phipps Contemporary Prints – dealer to British art galleries, museums and schools

RESIDENCIES

2022      Dark Skies, Cornwall

2020      Watching the Sun, Royal Astronomical Society & Mayes Creative

AWARDS

1982       BAFTA for Best Educational Film

1979       Kathleen Edwards Prize for History

QUALIFICATIONS

2012-25   Printmaking, Photopolymer, Bas relief, Stone carving

2010-12    Sculpture Diploma Heatherley School of Fine Art London

1982         BBC Radio Traineeship

1978-82    MA (Hons) History, Aberdeen University

1975-76    Cambridge University, Archaeology Digs