ABOUT
Meet the Artist
Neve Taylor-Bridges is an Artist Blacksmith who creates fine sculptural work through the combination of traditional and contemporary blacksmithing techniques. Utilising leading lines, Neve plays with visual weight within her work to encourage viewer engagement and create a refined balance.
Through exploring line and form found within scientific instruments, Neve’s forged three-dimensional compositions echo their source inspiration without being literal representations.
Her visual abstraction is achieved through a process of drawing and considered maquette making. Through reducing designs down to an essence of minimalistic curvature, combined with precisely forged tapers; Neve evokes a sense of function and curiosity within her contemporary sculptures.
Neve has exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy through Visual Arts Scotland in their exhibition “The Thread that Pulls”, Hereford Cathedrals “Reinterpret”, “Cats Creep open house” in Brighton, “150mm challenge” in stroud, “Revealing Process” as part of the Ferrous Festival in Hereford.
Neve has also been a part of a solo presentation at the Stroud Walled Gardens “Inspired” Exhibition. This took place during the “Earth Fire Iron” event where a series of open call opportunities were made for young blacksmiths to respond to.
One of these open calls was sculpture commission project meant to be created with a young blacksmith and a mentor. Neve was selected out of this international open call, to forge her designed sculpture “Arachne” a 6ft Garden Sculpture, created with the expert mentorship of Adam Greenwell AWCB, LWCB.
The unveiling of this sculpture and live creation of a smaller household that went on auction, was the main forging demonstration event at the British Artist Blacksmithing Association’s (BABA) public AGM. Neves drawing for Arachne was displayed as the central visual emblem for the conference and its promotional material and additionally featuring on the events T-shirts.
Worshipful Company of Blacksmiths
Neve was accepted as an apprentice of the Worshipful Company of Blacksmiths in 2025, under Liveryman Adam Greenwell AWCB, LWCB.
She took part in the construction of the Lord Mayor of London’s parade float for the company in 2024 in Stoneleigh as part of a group forge in.
