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Stand Tall Giraffe Parade - Colchester

http://www.colchester-zoo.com/index.cfm?fa=news.detail&id=831&section=6

 

Giraffe Sarasvati has been revealed as the most popular giraffe! Giraffes are on parade until 26th August when they are off to Colchester zoo for a week...then they hit London beofre being auctioned off - check out details on the website:

  

Next Mosaic Course!

18TH-19TH January 2014. Mosaic weekend makes an ideal Christmas present. Book soon as places limited.

Beautiful setting of Assington Mill, Suffok go to the website for bookings.

www.assingtonmill.com

  

Clients/ Commissions/Residencies include:

 

Channel 4's Kirsties Homemade Home, Google, HSBC, White Box, New York, Writtle College, London Zoo, Recycled Sculpture Show, European Commission, BBC2 Escape to the country, Colchester Zoo, The Gardens of Easton Lodge, Crittall Windows, Kent History & Library Centre, Research Residency - Arts Reverie, Gujarat, India, Broomfield, Essex County and Colchester Hospitals, Barratt Homes, International Symposium; Thuringen, Germany, BBC2 Fantasy Rooms, London Garden Show-Alexandra Palace (Gold and Best in Show) Braintree Museum, Hatfield Forest

  

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Anne Schwegmann-Fielding transforms functional objects. Utensils, tools, logs, and other familiar objects undergo metamorphosis, and emerge as sculptures, mosaics, jewels and ornaments.

 

This act of transformation is central to Anne’s work, making the ordinary extraordinary, she gives overlooked objects significance. Her recycling and re-use of materials began as a child, making things from whatever she found around the home. She has continued to be fascinated by materials which have had a previous life, and has an ongoing concern surrounding the disposable society in which we live and the often thin line between what is valuable and what is worthless.

 

An ardent collector, she sources objects such as old tools, wheelbarrows, mannequins and boxes which she then sets about embellishing with cup handles, broken crockery, shattered bus shelter glass and buttons. Once gathered, the selected items are laboriously cut by hand with the use of one simple tool. Tiny individual pieces are cut and shaped to requirement – each piece as important as the next, and then carefully positioned. The object is given a second skin.

 

A research residency in early 2008 in Gujarat, India saw the addition of jewelled plastic bangles to Anne’s ever growing catalogue of materials. These are also used by her guru Nek Chand, of Chandigarh’s Rock Garden, where she created a sculpture for the park.

 

Her love for decoration of the everyday and resourcefulness was echoed by the Kutchi people. The embroidery and mud and mirror work of Kutch made a huge impression on her. The intense and vibrant colours and patterns in the fabrics, the gold and mirror in many of the Jain temples and the costumes and jewellery in the film Jodha Akhbar ( in particular) have all had a profound effect on her new work. The ideas gathered from this were exhibited at her solo show in December 2008 at the European Commission.

 

Anne has been creating sculptures, panels and floorings for public spaces since 1993. She exhibits her work nationally and has work in private collections around the world.

  

:More projects and info can be found on Websites below

 

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www.hat.mmu.ac.uk/residencies (india blog)

www.wivenhoe.gov.uk/Arts/annesf.html

 

www.cade.writtle.ac.uk

www.eastonlodge.co.uk