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Maurice Blik (born 21 April 1939) is a British sculptor and past President of the Royal British Society of Sculptors. He is known for his figurative male sculpture.[1]

Maurice Blik PPRBS, FRSA
Maurice Blik PPRBS, FRSA

Early life


Born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, much of his work is influenced by his experience of being interned in Belsen concentration camp[2] as a young child.[3] The story of his life and work was featured in The Times newspaper ‘Igniting the Spark’, 30/09/2005[4]


Career


Maurice Blik studied at Hornsey College of Art (National Diploma in Sculpture, 1960), followed by an Art Teacher’s Certificate, University of London (1969), and has enjoyed a successful career as a sculptor, both in the UK and the USA since his first one-man exhibition at Alwin Gallery, London (1985). Since 2008 he has been represented by Bowman Sculpture, London, through whom his work is exhibited at major international art fairs.

Noteworthy past exhibitions include: one-man exhibition at Alwin Gallery, London (1985); Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (1991, 1993, 1997, 1998); one-man exhibition at Blain’s Fine Art, London (1999); one-man exhibition at The Royal British Society of Sculptors, London (2008).

He was awarded resident status by the USA Government in 1992 under the category ‘person of extraordinary artistic ability’, and was elected President of the Royal British Society of Sculptors(1996-1997),[5] and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (1997).


Film and television


Blik has been the subject of films and documentaries: ‘The Art of Remembering’ BBC, directed by Tim Robinson (1998); performance film ‘Second Breath’ directed by Gillian Lacey (2007),[6] ‘Hollow Dog’(2017) and 'The Last Survivors' BBC, directed by Arthur Cary (2019)


Sculpture works


Blik has a number of public sculptures in the UK and USA, including ‘Renaissance’,[7] East India Docks,[8] London (1995); ‘Behold’ Middlesex University, UK (2000); ’Splishsplash’,[9] Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, USA (2005);‘Second Breath’, Chandler Hospital, University of Kentucky, USA (2011); ‘Every Which Way’, National Memorial Arboretum, Staffordshire, UK (2017).




References


  1. Julian Freeman (2006). British Art: A Walk Round the Rusty Pier. Southbank. ISBN 978-1-904915-05-8.
  2. Harry Borden (26 January 2017). Survivor: A portrait of the survivors of the Holocaust. Octopus. pp. 1–. ISBN 978-1-84403-956-2.
  3. Benjamin and Vladka Meed Registry of Jewish Holocaust Survivors 2000. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 2000. ISBN 978-0-89604-703-7.
  4. Morrison, Richard. "Igniting the spark".
  5. A & C Black Publishers Ltd; Black, A. C., Staff (1998). Writers' and Artists' Year-book. A. and C. Black. ISBN 9780713647211.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  6. Jewish Renaissance: Magazine of Jewish Culture. Renaissance Pub. 2006.
  7. Bridget Cherry; Charles O'Brien; Nikolaus Pevsner (2005). London: East. Yale University Press. pp. 661–. ISBN 978-0-300-10701-2.
  8. Alan Cox (1995). Docklands in the making: the redevelopment of the Isle of Dogs, 1981-1995. The Athlone Press for the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England. ISBN 9780485485004.
  9. Patricia Dewey Lambert (5 October 2015). Managing Arts Programs in Healthcare. Routledge. pp. 85–. ISBN 978-1-317-62407-3.


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