LIBERTY BLAKE

February 7 - June 5, 2023
On View at Le Meridien Salt Lake City Downtown
131 S 300 W, Salt Lake City, UT 84101

Header image: Foxing, Liberty Blake

About the Artist

Born in England in 1968, Liberty grew up in an alternative, arts-centric environment that encouraged self-expression and creativity. Until the age of 13, she attended The Looking Glass School, a small experimental school that fostered arts and the environment. This formed the beginning of her love for art, outdoor adventure, and the natural world. 

Liberty studied Foundation Art and illustration at Sydney Place Foundation and Bath Academy of Art and later painting at WSCAD. In 1997 she moved to Utah, where she co-ran the ‘Art Shack’ at Sundance, teaching, exhibiting, and producing graphic design for the resort. It was during this time that she made her first wilderness-inspired abstract collages.

In 2007 she participated in the "337 Project" in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she created the first of many large-scale ‘wall collages.’ The most recent of these is the collaborative ‘Work in Progress Mural Project,’ a 60ft collaged mural, comprised of stencil portraits of women made by members of the community in workshops that she runs with her mother and fellow artist, Jann Haworth.

Liberty currently lives and works in Salt Lake City, Utah. Her abstract collages are a document of the wild natural places and neglected urban environments of Utah and Northern California. She has shown extensively in Utah, in group and solo shows, she is currently represented by The Phillips Gallery in Salt Lake City. Her work is housed in private collections across the United States, Europe, and Canada.

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Works on view at Le Meridien Salt Lake City Downtown

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Interstices
collage on panel

Foxing
collage on panel

Discards
collage on panel

Persimmon
collage on panel