Micky Bolton was born in Durban, South Africa in 1956. He settled in the U.K, in 1974 when his first job was as a metal picker in a scrap yard. Micky Bolton then embarked on a career in panel beating and paint spraying, eventually moving on to run his own business restoring classic and racing cars.

Inspired by metal sculptures from his native South Africa Micky Bolton began to exploit his own welding skills from an artistic viewpoint in 1994. His years of expertise working with metal enable him to create a wide variety of exciting art forms using recycled car body parts and panels and agricultural machinery. Often the parts themselves provide the inspiration for the final art form. Texture, colour, size and expression all differ to make each piece an individual.

EXHIBITIONS

March 2002 Matter of Fact documentary, ‘Made in Luton’ (BBC2)

January 2002 Invited artist, Art Café, Barbuda, West Indies

December 2001 Featured artist in Classic and Sports Car Magazine

August 2001 Silverstone Historic Festival, Fine Art Exhibition

April 2001 Buckenham Galleries,Suffolk,

The Grenwich Printmakers with Mickey Bolton Exhibition.

Sept 2000 Commissioned by The Earl of March to create sculptures for The Goodwood Revival Party.

July 2000 Coys International Historic Festival, Silverstone.

Motoring Fine Art Exhibition invited artist

May 2000 Chelmsford Cathedral Festival invited artist

Dec 1999 - Jan 2000 “Toast” exhibition. Buckenham Galleries, Suffolk

April – May 1999 Spring Exhibition. Bircham Contemporary Arts. Holt. Norfolk

COMMISSIONS

January 1999 Commissioned to make railings and gates for

Bury St Edmunds Town Trust redevelopment project of

Rae’s Yard, Risbygate Street, Bury St Edmunds

October 1998 Exhibited in Art et Jardin, Langham, Suffolk

May – Sept 1998 Garden Visitors Exhibition. Gainsborough’s House, Sudbury Suffolk.

(artists selected by Tony Venison and featured in Country Life Magazine July 9th 1998)

April 1998 Solo Exhibition. Tudor House Gallery, Aldeburgh Suffolk

January 1998 Exhibited at Art 1998. Business Design Centre Islington London

Commissions from 1998 to 2000 have included a life size horse for a client in Germany, a life size cow for an Ice Cream producer and other sculptures have gone to France, Italy, Ireland and America and Japan.