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joanna mallin davies

This artist accepts commissions

Mediums Used

Bronze, cast bronze,

Joanna is welsh-born, but has lived and worked in many places in the world, including Asia. Most recently, she lived and worked for some years on the edge of a fjord in North Denmark, before moving to Firenze, where she currently lives. Her work is touched by the influences of all these diverse cultures.

Joanna”s education is in ceramics, a training that instilled in her a belief in “truth to material”. Thus, when she developed her work into bronze, she apprenticed with a bronze caster and subsequently worked in a fine art foundry for several years.

Now, after almost 20 years of making sculpture, Joanna is returning to the source; immersing herself in the Art of the “masters”, in the museums of Paris and Firenze, and working with Italian artisan foundries; where the “lost wax” method of bronze-casting that is used throughout the world today was first developed.

Although at its source Joanna`s work is fundamentally classical, it carries the influence of ancient Chinese and Japanese art, Hindu, Buddhist, and Taoist symbolism and philosophies, from her having lived in Asia for some years.

Whatever the subject, it is essentially concerned with the inner experience; emotions, spirituality, consciousness and inner being.

Simple, sensual curves and inflated weightlessness, are the essence of female form and presence.

Whether in a state of rapture or serenity, the women she create have an innate self-possession, an inner smile, as if finding a beautiful, abundant garden. They share an inner contentment, living in pleasure with themselves and their surroundings. It is their pleasure.

Joanna carries this feeling of purist simplicity and strength into the form of the piece. Smooth simple lines and curves accentuated by only slight details of expression in face and hands, the feeling of peace and balance resonating throughout.

Few subjects have had such strong symbolic significance to man, as the horse, and few images other than the nude have been so frequently observed in Art. With the horse and rider; whether male or female, real or mythological, Joanna has found the perfect vehicle, with which to communicate different facets of humanity and our relationship to the world, emotions and ourselves. Femaleness spirituality, consciousness, and sensuality are a continuing fascination for Joanna, giving her ever growing insights of the `inner` experience. She avoid laboured titles, preferring people to see her work un-hindered by her personal “philosophy”.

Sculptures by joanna mallin davies

Beloved (Bronze Abstract Horse and Rider Love statue)

£3,333

Venus III (Fat Motherly Nude Woman Bronze statue)

£1,965

Venus II (Nude Well Built Earth Mother Bronze statue)

£1,933

The Divine II (Curvaceous Nude Woman and Horse sculpture)

£4,000

Graces IV (3 Nude Women Females statues)

£2,250

Graces II (Happy Nude Women Dancers Bronze statues)

£15,000

Credentials

Biography

Associations

R.B.S. - The Royal Society of British Sculptors.

Dansk Billedhuggersamfundet - The Royal Danish
Society of Sculptors.

Employment

1989 - Present - Continuous
Self-employed professional Artist.

2004 - continuous
Art teacher at Academy of Classical Drawing and School of
Animation. Viborg Denmark

2002 - 2004
BSL (British Sign Language) Interpreter/Communicator.

1995 - 1998
Company: Bronze Age. Art bronze foundry, London. Free-lance Foundry worker.

1991 - 1993
Company: Teresa Coleman Fine Arts, Hong Kong.
Company: Charles Orchard Art Consultant. Hong Kong

1989 - 1991
Company: C.C.T.A. Foundation Studies Dept. Dyfed. Lecturer of ceramics.

1989 - 1991
Company: The Workshop Gallery, South Wales.
Gallery Manager.

Influences

Botticelli, Bronzino, Michaelangelo, Marino Marini. Prehistoric cave paintings of Lascaux, George Stubbs, Eugene Delacroix, Degas, Marc Chagall, Franz Marc, and Amedeo Modigliani, Alberto Giaccometti, Odilon Redon, Aubery Beardsley, George Groez, Andre Derain, Honore Daumier, Frank Dobson, Otto Dix, Howard Hodgkin, Mary Cassatt, Marcel Antoine Gimond, Wilem de Kooning, Aristide Maillol, Tamara de Lempicka, Picasso, DaVinci whom I admire, and also influenced my work. The inventor, designer and architect, Buckminster Fuller, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela, philosophers Krishna Murti, Thomas Moore, Erich Fromm. Shauffer"s "Equus".

Reviews

`Sculpture Review` International sculpture publication.
`Sculpture Parks and Trails of England` Book by Alison Stace.
"The Marylebone Journal"
"Morsø Folkeblad"
"BBC Home and Garden".

Public Works

Commissions

2008-9
Venue: Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA.
Details: Sculpture Walk.

2008
Venue: Holland Park, Singapore.
Details: `Navigator` series, as part of a swimming pool development.

2006
Venue: Broomhill Art Hotel and Sculpture Garden, Barnstaple.
Details: `Graces II`.

2004-5
Venue: Vester Thorup Klitplantage and Kirsten Kjærs Museum Thy.
Denmark.
Details: "Metamorfoser" Symposium of Land Art.

2003
Venue: Højriis Slot og Gods, Morsø. Denmark.
Details: Life size sculpture, "Horseman Guardian".

Venue: Brockhall Village Estate, Lancashire.
Details: Life size bronze sculpture, "Warrior I".

2002
Venue: Pride of the Valley, Sculpture Garden, Farnham.
Details: Life size sculpture "Warrior I".

2001
Venue: Broomhill Art Hotel and Sculpture Garden, Barnstaple, Devon
Details: Life size sculpture "Warrior I".

Venue: Højriis Slot og Gods, Morsø. Denmark.
Details: 1/2 Life size sculpture, "Acrobat I".

Teaching Experience
2004 - continuous Details of position: Art teacher at Academy of Classical Drawing and School of Animation. Viborg Denmark 1995 - 2004 Peripatetic Art teacher in colleges and education centres throughout London. Teaching: Life drawing, Sculpture, drawing and painting 1994 - 2001 Peripatetic Lecturer at Degree level in Art colleges throughout Britain and London Business Training centres. Lecturing on Aspects of Professional Practice for Artists. 1995 - 1997 Company: Arts and Education project. Oxford House. London. and The Globe Centre, London. 1989 - 1991 Company: C.C.T.A. Foundation Studies Dept. Dyfed: Lecturer of Ceramics.
Public Acquisitions
Collections Broomhill Art Hotel and Sculpture Garden, Barnstaple, Devon Vester Th-rup Klitplantage, Thy, Denmark Højriis Slot, Morsø. Denmark. Morsø Folkebilbilotek Kunst Galeri. Denmark. Brockhall Village Estate, Lancashire. Pride of the Valley, Sculpture Garden, Farnham. Kirsten Kjærs Museum, Denmark. Aberystwyth Art Centre. Purchased by the Welsh Arts Council.
Symposiums
Artist Symposiums 2008 Venue: Crete. Details: "The Rape of Europa" European Sculptors Project 2004 and 2005 Venue: Vester Thorup Klitplantage, Thy, Denmark Details: `Metamorfoser` Landart Symposium. 2000 Venue: Frostrup, Denmark. Details: "Traces of the Past" Symposium for Sculpture Trail.

Categories

This artists work is found in the following categories on site:
Calm Love and Affection Sculptures or Statues Fat Voluptious Portly Large Women Females Ladies sculptures Statues Females Women Girls Ladies Sculptures Statues statuettes figurines Figurative Abstract Modern or Contemporary Sculptures Statues statuary statuettes figurines Human and Animal sculptures Indoor Inside Interior Abstract Contemporary Modern Sculptures Interior Indoors Inside Sculpture Bronze Little or Small sculpture Earth Mother Gaia sculpture statue statuettes figurines Little Small Nude or Naked Girls Women Ladies Females Sculpture Statue statuettes Figurines Nudes, Female Sculptures Tabletop Desktop Small Indoor Statuettes Figurines Sculptures Classical Style Sculptures and statues Human Figurative Sculptures Stylized People Sculptures Animals and Humans Sculptures, Statues and Statuettes Horse and Rider/Jockey Sculpture/Equestrian Sculptures Horse Sculpture/ Equines Race Horses Pack HorseCart Horses Plough Horsess Horses Small, for Indoors and Inside Display Statues statuettes Sculptures figurines commissions commemoratives Lesbian Lovers sculptures Nude sculpture statue statuette Figurine Ornament Dance Sculptures and Ballet sculptures Happiness/Joy/Exuberance/Wild Pleasure sculpture

Tags

This artists work is found in the following tags on site:
Bronze Nude Woman statue Contemporary Nude Bronze Posturing Contemporary Nude Woman sculpture Fat Bronze Female Nude statuettes Modern Bronze Fat Nude Naked Bronzes Nude Fat Jolly Female statue Small Bronze Nude sculptures Small Nude Fat Woman statue Bronze Nude Earth Mother sculpture Contemporary Nude Woman Bronze Dancing Nude Gaia sculpture Happy Fat Nude sculpture Joyful Chubby Nude sculpture Naked Fat Venus Bronze nude Small Naked Dancer statue Small Naked Happy Woman statue Table Top statues Fat Naked Female & Horse statue Fat Nude & Horse statue Female sculpture Happy Nude & Horse sculpture Horse & Human statue Horse & Nude sculpture Horse & Nude woman sculpture Little Nude & Horse art Nude & Equine sculpture Contemporary £ Graces Nude figurine Contemporary Bronze 3 Graces Indoor Bronze Nudes statuettes Little 3 Graces statue Little Bronze Nude sculpture Small 3 Graces sculpture Small Bronze Nude statue Three Graces Bronze statue Three Naked Graces statue Bronze Nude Dance sculpture Fat Happy Nude Dancers statue Fat Naked Dancers statues Fat Nude Dancer Bronze sculpture Happy Nude Dancers sculpture Jolly Women Naked Dance statues modern Nude Dance sculpture Naked Dance statue Nude Girl Dance sculpture