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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.'
© Sheila Vollmer 2007
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