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Louise Plant

Louise Plant creates sculpture inspired by the dynamics of movement. She works with marble, stone, bronze, cast iron and steel and has a particular feel for the direction the material wants to go. Her sculptures are visually striking with a wonderful sense of aliveness and  character.

Louise studied sculpture with the Open College of the Arts in 1992, whilst working full time as a teacher. Leaving teaching in 1994, Louise continued to study and make sculpture. She was elected Member of the Royal Society of Sculptors in 2003 and became Fellow in 2014.

Louise Plant has exhibited widely including MOCA, Cheeseburn Grange, Asthall Manor, New Walk Museum and Art Gallery, the Usher and Wysing Arts.

Awards include the Brian Mercer Scholarship, Studio Sem, Italy, the KKV Bohuslän Scholarship, Sweden and the Year of the Artist Award, Arts Council England.

Her work is held in private collections globally and she has been commissioned by the MOD Northwood, the RNIB Loughborough, Durham County Council, Somerset County Council and the Waldorf Astoria Bangkok.

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ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

Awards & Fellowships

Fellow of the Royal Society of Sculptors
Brian Mercer Scholarship, Studio Sem, Italy
KKV Bohuslän Scholarship, Sweden
Year of the Artist Award from Arts Council England

Selected Commissions:

Many Private Commissions
Durham County Council
Warldorf Astoria – Bangkok
MoD – Northwood
RNIB – Loughborough
Somerset County Council – Bristol

ARTIST SUMMARY

Categories:

Sculptures
Prints

Mediums:

Drawing
Prints – Screenprints
Prints – Other
Sculpture – Metal-Cast
Sculpture – Metal-Fabricated
Sculpture – Stone

Subject Matter:

Abstract

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Lizzie Farey

Lizzie Farey’s intricate structures capture a still moment, a distillation and order. Calm after a storm.

Intimate forms provide a hint of the process of creation. We can see and even feel points of tension in the work. Our eye can follow the artist’s hand, the choices made in twisting and turning this flexible medium.

Born in Singapore, for the last 30 years Farey has been based in rural Galloway, in Scotland’s South West. The rural setting of home and studio are her guiding inspiration, her sensitivity with wood revealing an interaction with nature that is deeply personal.

Lizzie Farey grows much of her own pallet of artist’s materials. Planting, tending and harvesting a range of willow which is grown for both texture and colour.

Willow, it’s flow of flex and tension is often manipulated into rhythmic patterns, Artist, willow, form, each unique, reach a perfection as the work comes together, inner creative process and final form working as one.

‘My work engages with nature. I focus on recreating the essence of natural form through the medium of willow, larch, ash, hazel and other locally grown woods. Influences from Japan continue to inspire my attempts to capture the simplicity, practicality and beauty of the materials.’

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

Selected Exhibitions:

National Museum of Scotland
Edinburgh City Art Centre
Shipley Art Gallery – Gatehead
Browngrotta Arts – Connecticut
Internationally in – Chicago, Geneva & Berlin

Guest Artist:

Cheongja International Biennale – South Korea

ARTIST SUMMARY

Categories:

Sculpture
Wall Panels

Sculpture Type:

Interior

Mediums:

Sculpture – Wood
Woven Willow

Subject Matter:

Abstract

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‘My work engages with nature. I focus on recreating the essence of natural form through the medium of willow, larch, ash, hazel and other locally grown woods. Influences from Japan continue to inspire my attempts to capture the simplicity, practicality and beauty of the materials.’

Lizzie Farey

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Pierre Diamantopoulo

Pierre Diamantopoulo has two distinct strands to his figurative style. They seem to be intellectually and emotionally worlds apart, but they share the same impetus.

One is a cool and measured response to a profound sense of unrest. In this work, figures fly in defiance or are challenged by their environments. They ‘trippingly’ negotiate upheaval or uncertainties — each work is a balancing act, a metaphor for a precarious state of living or existence. Androgynous and anonymous human figures tilt and fall away – on and off objects that also teeter on a chaotic or shifting stage. Figures may be set free against strongly convergent lines, shapes and forms.

The other strand of Pierre Diamantopoulo’s practice is ambiguous, allegorical and atavistic, but still concerned with mercurial forces. Here, he works on impulse— mixing dark foolery, the poetic and the literary with theatre and folklore— blended with a sort of logical nonsense. This may be a voyage into the past, personal or absurd, diverted by the raw and primitive, with the wit, the mimic and maverick on board. These works are often executed with an immediate, freer hand, exploiting the texture of the raw material.

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

Selected Exhibitions:

Beaux Arts – Bath
The Jerram Gallery – Sherborne
Courcoux & Courcoux – Stockbridge
The Grove Hotel – Watford
The Gallery in Cork Street
Henley Festival

Selected Commissions:

Hove Plinth – Hove, East Sussex
Middlesbrough College – West Entrance
Tees Valley Regeneration Project
Peggy Guggenheim Collection – Venice

ARTIST SUMMARY

Categories:

Sculptures
Paintings

Sculpture Type:

Exterior
Interior
Tabletop

Mediums:

Metal-Cast Sculpture
Metal-Fabricated Sculpture
Paintings on Canvas
Paintings on Paper

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Animal/Botanical
Portrait/Figurative

Pierre Diamantopoulo - Once I sat Upon a Promontory

Pierre Diamantopoulo - Flight of Langoustine

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There are two distinct strands to my figurative style. They seem to be intellectually and emotionally worlds apart, but they share the same impetus.

Pierre Diamantopoulo

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Dorothy Brook

Dorothy Brook became a sculptor in a roundabout way. She had studied Graphic Design at St Martins School of Art and worked as a freelance designer for about 10 years. When circumstances changed, a friend suggested she join a sculpture class. She loved it having no idea that she would be able to work in three dimensions having been used to seeing everything from a graphic and linear perspective.

To her surprise her graphic background gave her work a very different look. The lines and curves have to flow when viewed from every angle. The form is pared down until all that is left is its essence. Ultimately the aesthetic of the piece is the most important element.

Although Dorothy may start a sculpture with an armature and an idea of what she is going to make, it very often changes during the process. It is the sculpture that dictates where it is going and she follows, refining the lines as it progresses. Usually working in plaster as she finds it is easier to achieve the sharp edges and smooth surfaces that define her style. ‘I love to capture the split second that epitomizes the dynamic of a movement, just as a photograph would – the frozen moment.’

Dorothy Brook still loves the process as much as she did in that first sculpture class. The realisation that her drawings can and have come to life is very satisfying, not bad for a Graphic Designer!

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

Selected Exhibitions:

Wizo/Ben Uri Gallery – London
Waterstone Gallery – Birmingham
24 London – Berlin, Barcelona & Milan
Expression of Movement – Grove Hotel – Watford
Great British Sculpture Show – Hatfield House
Henley Art Festival

Selected Commissions:

Winterthur House – London
Unilever – London
Compaq – London
Maughan Library Garden, Kings College – London
WIZO – London
Hong Kong Finance – Hong Kong

ARTIST SUMMARY

Categories:

Sculpture
Paintings

Sculpture Types:

Exterior
Interior

Mediums:

Sculpture – Metal-Cast
Sculpture – Resin
Painting on Paper
Pastels
Drawing

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Figurative
Landscape

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'I love to capture the split second that epitomizes the dynamic of a movement, just as a photograph would – the frozen moment.'

Dorothy Brook

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Philip Melling

Philip Melling works predominantly in metals creating an eclectic range of sculpture for exhibition, private clients and public installation.

He draws inspiration mostly from the materials he uses. Through concepts of movement and through experimentation he develops the shape of his sculptures.

His collection ‘Elements’ focuses on Earth, Air, Water and Fire and describing the reaction when those elements meet.

In developing the collection Philip Melling concentrated on using a repetitive form – curved metal bars, to generate concepts and capture the movement of elemental reactions.

Philip’s sculptures are designed to work as sculptures for the home, office and garden, as well as larger scale installations for private or public spaces.

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

Widely Exhibited within the UK and Internationally

Many commissions for both private, corporate and public clients made from bronze, copper, steel and stainless steel.

ARTIST SUMMARY

Categories:

Sculptures

Sculpture Type:

Exterior
Interior

Mediums:

Sculpture – Metal-Fabricated

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Architectual

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Ian Turnock

Ian Turnock produces sculpture inspired by patterns and symmetry in nature. One of his main sources of inspiration are the silhouettes formed against the sky by tree foliage at different times of the year.

The spaces between the branches and leaves are just as important. A concept known in Japanese gardens as ‘Ma’, and is akin to the silences between the notes in music. Sometimes it is the gaps I am looking for just as much as the leaves themselves.

Ian Turnock has a background in graphic design which influences his exploration of form and line. Drawings and photographs are the starting point from which he develops organic, abstract and figurative sculpture.

Ian creates intricate and detailed drawings from which the final artwork is digitally cut. The designs can be cut in stainless steel, corten, aluminium, copper, reclaimed steel and plywood. This transforms the drawn line into a tangible object.

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

Selected Exhibitions:

Gallery 57 – Arundel
Affordable Art Fair
The Courts Garden, National Trust Wiltshire
Surface Gallery – Nottingham

Selected Commissions:

Norwegian Cruise Line
Brackenbury Square – London
The Congleton Partnership
Cunard – Queen Mary II
Private Clients in Dubai, Switzerland, California, Chicago, Cheshire, London etc…etc

ARTIST SUMMARY

Categories:

Sculpture

Sculpture Type:

Exterior
Interior

Mediums:

Sculpture – Metal-Fabricated

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Animal/Botanical

Ian Turnock - Eye of the Hurricane on Wall

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I create intricate and detailed drawings from which the final artwork is digitally cut into stainless steel, corten, aluminium, copper, reclaimed steel and plywood, transforming the drawn line into a tangible object.

Ian Turnock

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Susan Andreae

Susan Andreae is a sculptor and printmaker based in London.

Having grown up in London, she is fascinated by the complexity of living in the city – the crowds, commuters, architecture and energy of urban life.

She also travels frequently to Southern Italy and is inspired by the simplicity of the ancient architecture and colours of the Mediterranean.

Ideas evolve for Susan Andreae from things she sees and experiences and always from drawings made in situ, which start the creative process. She then experiments with techniques of layering using multiple images superimposed to arrive at a final image, eluding to the passing of time and historical change.

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

Selected Exhibitions

Royal Academy, London
Mall Galleries, London
The Salthouse Gallery, St Ives
Hiscox Gallery
Royal West of England Academy
The Affordable Art Fair
Brunel University
Hicks Gallery, London

Selected Commissions

BT
3i plc
MCI Communications
Villeroy & Boch Tableware

ARTIST SUMMARY

Categories:

Prints
Sculpture

Sculpture Type:

Interior
Tabletop

Mediums:

Prints – Artist-Etchings
Sculpture – Metal-Cast
Sculpture – Concrete/Plaster/Ceramic

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Architectural
Landscape
Urban

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Having grown up in London, I am fascinated by the complexity of living in the city – the crowds, commuters, architecture and energy of urban life.

Susan Andreae

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Zac Greening

Zac Greening draws his inspiration principally from nature – ‘the ultimate sculptress’. He finds the sculptural forms created by the sun, moon, waves and trees particularly inspiring as symbols of sustainability.

He works in a wide range of media from discarded plastic bottles to organic matter. Often these materials are fused together to reinforce the aesthetic or narrative that he’s looking to express.

A narrative is created that highlights the relationship between man and the natural environment.

Common themes found in his work often abstractly express or make a comment on current issues. Issues such as sustainability, environmental degradation, or consumption. Alternatively they may simply be an expression of the marvel and awe he sees in a sunset or the kinetic and meditative experience found in the rolling of sea waves.

Zac Greening communicates and reminds the viewer of mankind’s inextricable socio-economic and spiritual link with the natural world

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

Selected Commissions

Window Displays

Jigsaw
Monsoon
Viyella
Topshop

Brand Installations

BMW
Jaguar
Sony
Speedo
Good Energy

Available for commission of site specific artworks.

ARTIST SUMMARY

Categories:

Sculptures
Installations
Wall Panels

Sculpture Type:

Exterior
Interior

Medium:

Mixed Media
Recycled Materials
Wood
Other

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Animal/Botanical

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A narrative is created that highlights the relationship between man and the natural environment. Common themes found in my work often abstractly express or make a comment on current issues.

Zac Greening

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Claire Malet

Claire Malet produces work is inspired by natural forms and landscapes. Fragments of sea-worn shells, the rock formations of a battered coastline, a curl of split bark, the dancing light and shadow of woodland all give inspiration.

I also draw inspiration directly from the characteristics of the medium. Working intuitively is key, allowing the metal to suggest a direction and find a relationship with the subject matter. I work in silver, copper, steel and ‘found metals’

Claire Malet is exhibited internationally, with gallery representation in UK, USA, Australia and Ireland.

I have pieces in several public collections, including the Victoria & Albert Museum and the National Museum Cardiff. Awards include Goldsmiths’ Fair Best New Design Award 2014.

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ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

Selected Exhibitions

2018 – Homo Faber – Venice, Italy
2018 – West Branch Gallery, Vermont, USA
2013 – 2019 – Collect – Saatchi Gallery, London
2016 – Contemporary British Silversmiths, London
2016 – Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
2014 – 2015 – Goldsmiths’ Fair, London
2014 – Manchester Art Gallery
2013 – Cheongju, South Korea

ARTIST SUMMARY

Categories:

Sculpture
Installations
Accessories

Sculpture Type:

Interior
Tabletop

Mediums:

Sculpture – Metal-Cast
Sculpture Metal-Fabricated
Gilding

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Natural Forms

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My work is inspired by natural forms and landscapes: fragments of sea-worn shells, the rock formations of a battered coastline, a curl of split bark, the dancing light and shadow of woodland.

Claire Malet

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Thurle Wright

Thurle Wright works with books, maps and words on paper.

Her delicate paper reconstructions stem from an interest in the systems and structures of language. As well as the ordering of knowledge and the collecting, storing and accessing of words.

She cuts, folds, weaves and stitches lines of words into a new visual format. Traces of the original mingle with personal, often playful or poetic interpretations.

Originally from Zimbabwe, Thurle works from her studio in Folkestone’s Creative Quarter.

She has exhibited widely both in the UK and internationally, including Collect2019 at the Saatchi Gallery, the Bookarts Triennial in Lithuania, Deptford X, and Brussels Art on Paper.

Numerous residencies include work for the V&A Museum of Childhood, Perth Central School of Art and Design, Camberwell Arts and various schools and colleges in the UK.

Her work is held public and private collections including Brisbane State Library