Libby Bove

Libby Bove [b.1991] is a multi-disciplinary artist and folklorist based in Somerset. Her work is centred around ideas which reposition folk custom and magical practice back at the forefront of daily life. Drawing on archival methodologies and documentary, her work slips between fact and fiction. By employing traditional craft processes, plausibility is woven into constructed myths; transposing ideas of ancient customs, traditions and rituals into incongruous contemporary settings, non-existent pasts, and speculative future landscapes. Working across a range of media including ceramics, textiles and found objects, she creates sculptural works, masks, and wearable costume pieces. 

Authenticity, and the potential for the work to be believable, is integral to her practice; physical works are often accompanied by ‘field’ recordings, ‘documentation’ of folk songs, and descriptive ‘historic’ texts, all aimed at crafting a palpable form of surround sound storytelling.

A graduate of Bath Spa University, Bove's work has been presented at the I.C.A. as part of New Contemporaries and at The Box, Plymouth, where she completed the Reimagining the Archive Commission. Her honours include the Henry Moore Foundation Artists Award and the Kenneth Armitage Sculpture Prize. She continues to tour her major project The Museum of Roadside Magic nationally.

Staffordshire St presented ‘The Way of the Roadwytch' Bove’s first solo exhibition in London in September, 2026. 

To view all works available by the artist and prices please download a sales catalogue here

For all sales enquires please contact STST Artistic Director, Dee Haughney; dee@staffordshirest.com