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architectural ceramics
art
Author_Amy Dempsey
Bexhill
carving
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ceramics
Church Hall
Contemporary art
corten steel
creativity
drawing
earthenware
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female
fired clay
geometry
German-British
granite
Italy
life drawing
London sculpture studio
maquettes
marble
metal fabrication
models
oilstick drawing
painted steel
paper-light steel
Pietrasanta
sculpture
Sir Eduardo Paolozzi
steel
stoneware
Studio Sem
surreal
Tuscany
Unsentimental Beauty
watercolour
welding
wire
woman
works on paper
Product details
- ISBN 9781916846708
- Dimensions: 230 x 240mm
- Publication Date: 17 Jun 2025
- Publisher: Unicorn Publishing Group
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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'It seems that making art is chasing after an elusive dream of perfection that sits somewhere in my head. It will not go away, even after fifty years of trying. After all this time the process of holding materials, rubbing, crushing, cradling or just placing them violently or tenderly, is what it's about. Every action is a stream of discovery of something that hasn't existed before - it's a miracle and a bloody disaster. And so every sculpture leads to the next piece in the great puzzle. Much of this work is initiated in the subconscious. The different processes connect me with something physical or metaphysical that needs to be understood. In this way I discovered and dealt with past trauma. Things that didn't make sense but once transposed into clay became obvious. In this way personal experiences were opened out into universal experiences.'
Amy Dempsey is an art historian and writer with experience working and writing for different audiences and media, writing books and online texts for the general public, experts and children. Her experience spans the academic, museum and commercial art worlds in London, New York and Washington DC. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
