almuth tebbenhoff
Mediums Used
Almuth Tebbenhoff 2002 elected Fellow of the Royal British Society of Sculptors
1985-6 metal fabrication course at South Thames College
1972-5 ceramics at Sir John Cass School of Art.
Sculpture is my first language. First I worked with clay for over ten years, then I opted for steel, a material that my father had used for his functional, agricultural inventions. Steel became my main material for the next 20 years and I invented a particular language using steel angle section to create large paper-like wall-flowers. Later-on I developed distorted, open-sided containers. These containers that do not contain are very close to my heart. It’s the emptiness within them that has become such an important part of my life through silent meditation, which I practice since 1983.
In 2006, out of the blue, I was offered a scholarship to learn to carve marble in northern Italy during a three months residency. Then followed an intense period of learning another language with both hands and brain. Steel had given me angular skeletal structures and the engineering side of my brain loved to solve geometric puzzles. The missing bit had been volume, which I obtained from marble.
Now I use both materials with departures into wax for casting into bronze. My work is best seen in reality rather than on 2-d reproductions.
Sculptures by almuth tebbenhoff
Credentials
Qualifications
1997–2005 Studied life drawing inspired by Cecil Collins
1986–1988 Metal fabrication classes at South Thames College, London
1972–1975 Studied ceramics at the Sir John Cass School of Art, London,1997–2005 Studied life drawing inspired by Cecil Collins
1986–1988 Metal fabrication classes at South Thames College, London
1972–1975 Studied ceramics at the Sir John Cass School of Art, LondonExhibitions
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Awards
1991 Award from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York
2002 Elected Fellow of the Royal British Society of Sculptors
2003 Short-listed for Battle of Britain Memorial in central London.
2004 Arts Council England Grant for Sculpture Installation at the Cafe Gallery, Bermondsey, London
2006 Fondazione Sem Scholarship, working with marble in Pietrasanta, Lucca, Italy
2013 Honorary Doctorate from Leicester University
2014 Grant from RB Hammersmith and Fulham for Holland Park Installation
2015 London Group Open Prize for steel sculpture
2015 National Open Art Competition Prize for steel wall sculpturePublications
Sculpture at Canary Wharf - A Decade of Exhibitions
Crucible - Sculpture at Gloucester Cathedral, Gallery Pangolin
various through Sculpture at Goodwood,
Guy Portelli.
Making Contemporary Sculpture, Ian Dawson
Crucible 1 and Crucible 2, at Gloucester Cathedral,Sculpture at Canary Wharf - A Decade of Exhibitions
Crucible - Sculpture at Gloucester Cathedral, Gallery Pangolin
various through Sculpture at Goodwood,
Guy Portelli.
Making Contemporary Sculpture, Ian Dawson
Crucible 1 and Crucible 2, at Gloucester Cathedral
Almuth Tebbenhoff was born on the 27th January 1949 in Germany.
2012–2013 Curated annual Sculpture Exhibitions for Leicester University
2009 Created the ‘Star of London’ award sculpture in bronze for the BFI London Film Festival.
1981 Converted church hall to studio in London
Brancusi, Sol LeWitt, Noguchi, James Turrell, Louise Bourgeois, Georgia O`Keefe, Cecil Collins, Redon, trees, the elements, astronomy.
`Soft Pillar` - St. George`s Hospital, South London
`Flying Colours` - Leicester University Library.
`Soft Tower` - Chiswick Park
