Bernard Sleigh
Born 1872
Died 1954
Active: 1899 - 1931
Teacher of wood engraving, wood engraver, painter, stained glass designer
Born and worked in Birmingham. Retired to Chipping Campden
Locations
Studio located at Charlotte Road Edgbaston Birmingham | View on map
See 'Mr. Bernard Sleigh', Birmingham Post, 16 December, 1954, in 'Birmingham Biography', vol. 45, (February 1954-May 1955), p. 133, no dates are given.
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Royal Society of Artists Birmingham, The Autumn Exhibition, 1931
1931
Exhibited 'Chess Box and Chessmen': p. 24 (220). The artist collaborated with Ivy Anne Ellis on the work. The atrist was living in Edgbaston, Birmingham.
Institutional and Business Connections
Teacher at Birmingham Municipal School of Art, Central School
1903 - 1906
Teacher of Wood Engraving
Worked for Bromsgrove Guild
1899 - 1900 (Presumed)
Painted the communion table, pulpit and choir stalls for the Unitarian Memorial Church, Wallasey, Cheshire, a Guild comission. Also painted decor for the Guild's exhibits in the British Pavillion of the Paris Exposition in 1900. See Townshend 'The Bromsgrove Guild of Applied Arts', in Watt 'The Bromsgrove Guild', (1999), p. 14 and p. 16.
Sources
Birmingham Biography, Newspaper Cuttings, 1872-1966 Birmingham Biography
See 'Mr. Bernard Sleigh', Birmingham Post, 16 December, 1954, in 'Birmingham Biography', vol. 45, (February 1954-May 1955), p. 133.
Royal Society of Artists Birmingham. The Autumn Exhibition, 1931
1931
p. 24.
The Bromsgrove Guild. An Illustrated History, 1999
1999
p. 14, p. 16 and p. 53.
Citing this record
'Bernard Sleigh', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib4_1206539641, accessed 29 Jan 2023]