Linda Bowden
Since graduating from the National Art School, Darlinghurst, NSW, Australia, in 1999 Linda has been actively pursuing a career in teaching and making sculpture. She has exhibited in various group shows, solo shows and has been awarded a number of prizes including a UNESCO residential fellowship at the atelier Four-Winds in Provence, France in 2005. She has been selected to exhibit in Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi and Cottesloe, Australia her initial entry being in 2000 and in 2012 she became the first woman sculptor to join “The decade club” having exhibited ten or more times in the show. She has two public works, View with a room in Hunter’s Park, Bondi, NSW and Into the trees, pier 8/9 Walsh Bay Arts Precinct, Hickson Road, the Rocks. In 2013 her work The others was a finalist in the Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of NSW. She has been a sessional teacher at the National Art School, Darlinghurst since 2010

Awards
2012 Sculpture by the sea, Decade Club
2011 Art Gallery Society of NSW Prize Sculpture by the Sea Bondi
2010 Art Gallery Society of NSW Prize Sculpture by the Sea Bondi
2007 The Clitheroe Foundation Mentor Program (Sculpture by the Sea).
2006 Australian Unrepresented Sculptor Award, (Sculpture by the Sea).
2005 UNESCO-ASCHBERG Residency, France.
2002 Waverley Council Prize (Sculpture by the Sea).