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ama menec

This artist accepts commissions

Mediums Used

Stoneware Ceramic, Patinated foundry bronze, Ceramic, Bronze,

Ama Menec is passionate about the need for wilderness and the plight of Britain`s endangered animals. Her animal sculptures focus primarily on threatened species in the UK and are stylistically inspired by etchings, woodblock prints, early 20th century illustration and Art Deco stone carving.
Her earlier figurative sculptures based on mythological and archaeological representations of women are now being combined with her previous experience of teaching Lesbian History, with several possible projects currently being explored.

Ama Menec`s personal statement. My sculptures reflect a 25 year fascination with our earliest pre-history combined with a love of the sea and marine creatures, Archaic Greek stone sculpture, the marking, corrosion and weathering of artefacts over time, and an appreciation of the fuller female form. These themes are often woven together into whimsical sculptures, sometimes functional and sometimes designed purely to delight the eye. I hope to widen the appreciation of archaic sculptures of women by re-interpreting them for the modern world. I am also influenced by early 20th century stone carving, particularly Art Deco, the qualities of line and use of negative spaces, but coupled with the colour only really possible in 3D with ceramics.

I have been working in Ceramics since the late 70`s, gained my Art Foundation in Cambridge in 1984 and have been sculpting at Coombe Park since 2001. I have had a varied ceramics career including time spent as potters assistant to Rupert Andrews, and as a production thrower for David White. I gained my Ceramics B.A. from the University of Derby in 1996, and, as well as full-time sculpting, am also engaged in ceramics teaching and demonstrating. For more on my courses, and of future apprenticeships, please see my pottery and sculpture classes page on my website.

All my sculptures are made from a combination of wheel throwing, slab-forming, coiling, carving and hand modelling using Earthstone clay, crank, terracotta or my own paperclay mix. They are glazed using low-fire and mid-fire stoneware glazes which are immensely variable, and so ensure that no two sculptures are ever the same. I also rarely use the same combination of glazes and oxides on any two pieces. Because of this, the images on my website are to be seen as a guide only, and if you are interested in buying a specific sculpture, contact me and I shall email you jpeg pictures of the latest sculptures I have of that type in the studio, should the sculpture featured on my website happen to be sold. I can also glaze a sculpture for you with any of the glazes shown, if you have a particular preference of colour and texture.

Sculptures by ama menec

Cycladic Head

Dreaming Earth Goddess

£1,633

Hypnia Ceramic (Wall Mounted Big Head Goddess sculpture)

£700

Anne Lister maquette (Bronze Lesbian Heroin sculpture)s

£3,000

Nile Goddess (Kneeling Blue Egyptian Goddess Outdoor statue)

£3,333

Dreaming (Stone Ware Curled Up Nude Woman sculpture)

£1,092

Large Cycladic Goddess

`Persecuted` Badger maquette (Small Bronze statuettes)

£1,250

Female Red Kite (Bronze life size Bird of Prey sculpture)

£8,333

Hypnia (Bronze life size Greek God Art Deco Styled sculpture)

£2,833

Female Buzzard (Bronze Perched Watching sculpture)

£8,333

Swift (Bronze Clinging to Wall sculpture)

£1,222

Credentials

Influences

Her earliest influences as a teenager were the Natural History, Archaeology and Anthropology museums of Cambridge, and they inspire me still.

Teaching Experience
Part time teaching, privately and through institutions, on a variety of subjects such as production throwing, glaze theory, mould making, sculpting, women`s self defence and Lesbian History, since the mid 1980`s until 2018.
Public Acquisitions
My sculptures are in collections across the UK, USA, Canada, Germany, Austria, Australia, France and Denmark.
Symposiums
Archaeology 08, British Museum, 9th-10th February 2008. LFest, Illustrated talk about the Public Statue of Anne Lister project Llandudno, Wales 2019.

Categories

This artists work is found in the following categories on site:
Archaeology inspired sculpture statues Classical Style Sculptures and statues Earth Mother Gaia sculpture statue statuettes figurines Gods or Goddess, or Deity Sculptures Human Figurative Sculptures Human Form: Abstract Sculptures Fat Voluptious Portly Large Women Females Ladies sculptures Statues Figurative Abstract Modern or Contemporary Sculptures Statues statuary statuettes figurines Nudes, Female Sculptures Spiritual sculpture Abstract Woman Female Lady Girl sculpture statue Mounted Heads, Masks, Wall Mounted Busts of Animals Mythical Legendry Folk Lore Sculptures Restful Sleeping Dozing Day Dreaming sculpture statue Aspirational/Inspirational Sculptures or Statues Figurative Public Art Sculptures Sculptures of Sport in General Small/Little Figurative sculpture/statuette/ statuary/ornament/figurine Wisdom of Women sculptures statues statuettes Focal Point Abstract Contemporary Modern sculpture statue Garden Or Yard / Outside and Outdoor Sculptures Poolside Sculptures Unselfconscious Relaxed Nude sculpture Females Women Girls Ladies Sculptures Statues statuettes figurines Primitive or Naive style Sculpture or Statuary Badger, Otter, Beaver, Weasel, Stoat, Pine Martin, Wombat Sculptures Endangered Animal Species Sculptures Garden wildlife Sculptures Lifelike Realistic Coloured Painted sculpture Statue Maquette For Larger Monumental Massive Big or Large statue or sculpture Arte Deco style Abstract Stylised Contemporary Modern Sculpture Birds of Prey Raptors Hawks Eagles Falcons Owls Sculptures Bronze Little or Small sculpture Stylised Birds sculptures/statues/statuary/ornaments figurines/statuettes Wild Animals and Wild Life Sculptures Wild Bird Sculptures Wall Mounted or Wall Hanging sculpture Birds at Rest sculpture statues for sale Perched Birds sculptures statues carvings Realistic Representational Sculpture Interior Indoors Inside Sculpture Small bird sculptures

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