Christine Kowal Post
I prefer to work with wood, using a mallet and chisel. I carve relief panels as well as directly from the log. My sculptures are figurative and narrative. I explore certain themes concerned with the lives of women – how they have been represented and the influence of biology, but I also investigate our relationship with the world around us to examine issues and attitudes which help us understand the human condition. Although Expulsion is a biblical theme, here I am exploring the idea of our destruction of the environment, of animals expelled from their paradise. Sticklebacks are simply there in my pond, and I love them.
'Expulsion 1' Oil colour and gold leaf on sweet chestnut relief. (detail)
Christine Kowal Post
'Sticklebacks' Oil colour on sweet chestnut relief.
Biography
1970-74 University College of Wales, Aberystwyth; B.A. Joint Hons. Fine Art/Italian
1972-73 Accademia delle Belle Arti, Florence
1997- Studio in East Sussex
2005 Elected to Royal Cambrian Academy of Wales
2014 Elected member of Royal Society of Sculptors
Recent Solo Exhibitions:
2017 ‘They think they are Fallen Angels’ Royal Cambrian Academy, Conwy, Wales
2011 ‘They think they are Fallen Angels’ Hop Gallery, Lewes
2008 Farley Farm House, Chiddingly
2006 Worthing Museum & Art Gallery
2005 20-21 Visual Arts Centre Scunthorpe
2004 Thebes Gallery, Lewes
2002 Stadtmuseum Beckum, Germany
Kulturforum Rheine, Germany
Selected Recent Group Exhibitions:
2017 ‘Dreams and Fears’ Kontur at Gustav Siegle Haus, Stuttgart, Germany
2017 ‘Strong’ Naked Eye Gallery, Brighton 2017
2017 Invited guest artist for Tate Modern Workshops ‘Movement and Sculpture’ with
choreographer Freddie Opoku Addaie
2016 ‘Corpus’ Blackheath Gallery, London
2016 ‘Fabelhaft’ Kontur Stuttgart at Kunstvertein Landshut, Germany
2013 Fresh Air at Quenington
2012 Royal Cambrian Academy Summer Exhibition
2010 ‘Weiss’ KISS Schloss Untergroningen, Germany
2008 Wales Portrait Award and Tour
'Expulsion 1', Oil colour and gold leaf on sweet chestnut relief.
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