Louise Giblin was born in 1963 and lives and works on the East Sussex/Kent border. She graduated from the University of Brighton Faculty of Arts with a Fine Art Sculpture BA(Hons), also studying MA History and Theory of Modern Art at Chelsea College of Art. Her tutors at Brighton included the acclaimed sculptor Antony Gormley.

Giblin is a leading body cast sculptor, her subject matter is portraiture and the human form. In the run up to the 2012 London Olympics, she produced sensual, striking sculptures in clay with detailed, fragmented and abstracted imagery applied to the surface, then cast in them in bronze, translucent resin or cold cast metals.

Her aim for the series was to produce sculptures focusing on physical power and personal triumph. Those included were 2012 Olympian contender Beth Tweddle MBE, Dame Kelly Holmes, Sally Gunnell OBE, Kriss Akabusi MBE and Paralympian quadruple medallist swimmer Darren Leach.

Giblin’s 2014 series, Living Legends, focuses on public figures who were asked to consider what they would like to express through the surface design of their portrait head or torso. Casting commenced in December 2011 with ex-Cabinet Minister and broadcaster Michael Portillo and Sir Cliff Richard.

Giblin’s sculpture and drawings have been exhibited in London, across the UK, the United States and Hong Kong and she was elected Associate to the Royal British Society of Sculptors in 2010.