Sonja Landweer (b.1933)
Elongated Ovoid
Ceramic, 23 x 35 x 20cm (9 x 13¾ x 8")
Inscribed on artist's label to base

 

Sonja Landweer was born in Holland and trained there as a ceramic...

Sonja Landweer (b.1933)
Elongated Ovoid
Ceramic, 23 x 35 x 20cm (9 x 13¾ x 8")
Inscribed on artist's label to base

 

Sonja Landweer was born in Holland and trained there as a ceramic artist, achieving early international renown as one of the finest artist-potters of her generation, before being recruited to come to the Kilkenny Design Workshops in the 1960s as an art expert. Prior to that, she had shown her ceramics in Holland, Japan, West Germany, Argentina, USA, Italy, Yugoslavia and Ireland and had been featured in publications on the top contemporary ceramic artists of the world. She also had a keen interest in ethnic art from many cultures and collected fine examples, as well as diversifying her art practice to make avant-garde jewellery and sculpture using indigenous materials. With painter Barrie Cooke she was central in organising fascinating exhibitions of international applied arts as part of the Kilkenny Art Festival for many years. In recent years, she has begun to cast her ceramic sculptures in bronze. Her forms are inspired by natural shapes such as exotic seeds and organic objects and she is celebrated for her innovatory glazes and subtle patinas. She has shown her art worldwide and is included in many prestigious private and public collections, including the Stedelijk van Abbe-Museum in Eindhoven, the National Self-Portrait Collection in Limerick and the Ulster Museum in Belfast. She is a member of Aosdána since its inception and has shown regularly at the Hendriks Gallery and the Peppercanister Gallery in Dublin, as well as in many group and museum exhibitions internationally.

 

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