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Canadian born,
Sheila Vollmer has made London her home since 1987 after a post
graduate in Sculpture at St Martin's School of Art. In Canada she
completed a BA in Visual Art at the University of Guelph, Guelph,
Ontario, 1985. She has exhibited widely in Britain and undertaken
commissions nationally and internationally. She has also been featured
in group exhibits in Eire, Canada, United States. Recent exhibitions
have included: travelling exhibit Fe2 05 of 5 women sculptors working
with steel in Darlington, APT Gallery, London and Canary Wharf,
London; Royal West of England Open Sculpture exhibit 2007; and Sculpture
in Paradise Chichester Cathedral cloisters. Her worked is featured
in public collections, most recently Wolverhampton Art Gallery,
Staffs and Dillington House, Illminster, Somerset. Private collections
of her work include Canada, Britain, US and Switzerland. Some of
her work is also on ongoing display at several sculpture parks including
Cass Foundation www.sculpture.org.uk
. Other web sites featuring her work are: www.rbs.org.uk
, www.axisweb.org.uk
www.anderssonhall.com
and www.thesculpturepark.co.uk
Awards have included The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, British
Council Travel Grant, A4E Express lottery Grant for Forms in Flux
group's inaugural exhibition and an Ontario Arts Council Grant.
Jobs supporting her art have included being painter Euan Uglow's
model 1987-89, a technician for sculptor Anthony Caro 1990-91 and
presently Head of Sculpture, Drawing & Painting at Morley College,
London.
'My sculptural
work is primarily with geometric shapes in the abstract with references
to the architectural, spiritual and constructed world. The materials
and processes that I work with are various, but at present I am
concentrating on steel and casting. I explore the poetic emotional
responses triggered by an object and its scrutinized detail and
color. Architecture is also an influence particularly for the poetry
and symbolism of spaces and the shared human experience our physical
and emotional selves have to the spaces around us. My aim is to
stay true to the material I am working with, while creating an image
with a breath and meaning of its own.'
www.sheilavollmer.com
© Sheila
Vollmer 2010
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Seen
C-type Print
2010
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Lou Smith works
in the fine art disciplines of painting and photography. Her paintings
evoke the spiritual realisation of colour through the intensity
of rich layers of paint, staining the canvas again and again.
As a photographer Lou Smith works in collaboration with her partner
of over 36 years, Ron Smith. The smithnsmith partnership explores
ways of seeing through the dynamics of stills and movies.
Lou Smith paintings
www.LouSmith.co.uk
smithnsmith
www.smithnsmith.co.uk
© Lou Smith
2011
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