ana ruiz agui

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Ana Ruiz Agui, graduated in Fine Arts from the University of La Laguna, Tenerife. She specialised in sculpture, studying for 3 years in the `Accademia di Belle Arti di Carrara`, Italy.
Ana Ruiz Agui has created large and public sculptures in Germany, Italy, Spain and England. She won First Prize in the Symposium de Escultura al Aire Libre de O Grove (Spain). One of her sculptures was created especially for an award-winning garden at 2007 Chelsea flower show. And recently she has won second prize in a regional competition in Tenerife, Spain.
She lives currently between Oxford and Tenerife where she is taking part in different exhibitions and where she has been working on a number of commissions. Her work is in both private and public collections and it can also be seen in galleries in the UK and Tenerife.
Ana Ruiz Agui`s work seeks through conceptual and abstract sculpture to manifest the beauty of the stone, the dynamics of the curves and the contrasts between different textures.
Ana Ruiz Agui tries to create sculpture with character, without getting lost in details, allowing the material to speak for itself and to breathe.
Her work seeks through conceptual and abstract sculpture to manifest the beauty of the stone, allowing the material to speak for itself and to breathe.
Sculptures by ana ruiz agui
Credentials
Qualifications
Ana Ruiz Agui`s Education
2001- 2002 Fine arts graduate at the La Laguna University (ULL) at Tenerife, Spain
2001- 2002 Selected by the Erasmus scholarship for Carrara, Italy.
2001- 2002 Frequent at the `Pietro Tacca` Professional Institute of Industry and Artisan of Marble, Carrara, Italy.
2002- 2004 Study sculpture speciality in the 1st cycle at the Fine Arts Carrara`s Academy. Italy.
2004- 2005 Obtaining a P.A C. (pedagogic aptitude certificate) at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain.
2005- 2006 Period of teaching doctorate in the program " Sculpture and new experimental currents " in the University Politècnica of Valencia (UPV), Spain.
2010 Doctorate in phase of research in The University of La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain.,Ana Ruiz Agui`s Education
2001- 2002 Fine arts graduate at the La Laguna University (ULL) at Tenerife, Spain
2001- 2002 Selected by the Erasmus scholarship for Carrara, Italy.
2001- 2002 Frequent at the `Pietro Tacca` Professional Institute of Industry and Artisan of Marble, Carrara, Italy.
2002- 2004 Study sculpture speciality in the 1st cycle at the Fine Arts Carrara`s Academy. Italy.
2004- 2005 Obtaining a P.A C. (pedagogic aptitude certificate) at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain.
2005- 2006 Period of teaching doctorate in the program " Sculpture and new experimental currents " in the University Politècnica of Valencia (UPV), Spain.
2010 Doctorate in phase of research in The University of La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain.Exhibitions
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Awards
Ana Ruiz Agui`s Awards
2009 2nd Prize of Plastic Arts "Manolo Millares". Caja Canarias Obra Social y Cultural, Tenerife, Spain2009 Recognition for her work for the “Gateway Project” realized in Stamford, UK.
2005 Second prize at the contest “care for the botanic¨ (Interesados por el Botánico),Valencia, Spain
2005 1st Prize. Open-Air Sculpture Symposium in O Grove. Galicia, Spain
Ana Ruiz Public Works
Public sculpture in Germany, Spain, England and Czech republic.
