CONTACT
info@stonelady.ch
ARTISTIC CREATION
From a young age I have had a strong bond to stone.I kept my collection of special stones and fossils in a large chest. In my childhood I found peace and inspiration in the nature for the painting and drawing. Soon it was clear that my vocation lay in creative work. This bond to stone and the joy of three-dimensional creation led me to the profession of sculptor in stone. From then on sculpting was the path which I followed with strong intention.
1997-2001 I completed my four-year apprenticeship as stone sculptor in the studio of Peter Schaerz in Baden, Switzerland. I studied at the Academy of Art in Bern (Hochschule fuer Gestaltung und Kunst). I was employed by the sculptor Andreas Wuest in Zurich for almost six years. After further short work experiences it was clear to me that I would find fulfilment in being self-employed.
Since 2008 I have been self-employed as a sculptor and freelance artist. I express myself constantly through various types of art. Photography, painting, sculpture and music are my forms of expression. I’m interested in any kind of art, because each speaks a different language to us. Art is my instrument, to set an example, or to give my feelings or my thoughts a shape, a colour or a melody. It should also be a mirror of the soul, in which we all recognize ourselves as human beings.
Mankind has no time. We live in the past or in the future, but the present is at this moment already the past. Art captures the moment, this moment for which we no longer have time. It sets up memorials that seem to last forever – works before which we must pause for a moment and look at and appreciate, to understand the language of our soul, to go the right way.
My most faithful companion is stone. It is hard, wise and beautiful. It shows you where your limits are. It helps you rediscover yourself in it. You have to feel the stone in order to understand it and create wonderful things with it.
PROFESSION
stone sculptor
COURSES
- Bronze casting with the sculptor and artist U. Gantner
- Projection drawing, figure drawing, portrait modelling at the Academy of Art in Bern and Zurich (Hochschule fuer Gestalting und Kunst)
- Glass melting in the studio of E. Widmer
PROJECTS
- 2000 Land Art, Vechingen, Bern (can be seen from an air balloon)
- 2002 Kunst und Stein, magazine of the Association of Sculpture, Report on studies of the Celtic cross in N. Ireland.
EXHIBITIONS
- 2000 Allesaberkunstpunkt, Vogelsang
- 2000 Arterien, Flösserplatz, Aarau
- 2001 Abartig, Theater am Brennpunkt, Baden
- 2003 Bildhauersymposium, Wohlen
- 2003 Afammarte, Bossardschüür, Windisch
- 2004 Caméléon, Kulturschuppen, Klosters
- 2005 Jugend Art, Olten 2005 Förderpreisausstellung, Rathaus, Olten
- 2006/07 Hotel Arte Pallas Klinik, Kongresszentrum, Olten
- 2007 Eröffnung Galerie Aeberhard, Klingnau
- 2007 Junge Künstler, Kulturzentrum, Fislisbach
- 2008 Gewerbeausstellung, Fislisbach
- 2010 Kunst Kollision, Wettingen und Ennetbaden
- 2010 Freilandkultur, Muri
- 2011 Industrie9, Regensdorf ZH
- 2012 Artefatto, Motus Urbis, Trieste, Italy
- 2012 Geografie, Sarajevo Supermarket, Naples, Italy
- 2014 The Cosmopolitan, Nest Gallery, Old Town, Geneva
- 2015 Hiver 2015 Swiss Art Space, Lausanne
SPONSORSHIP AWARD
- 2005 Sponsorship award from the city of Olten and the organization Jugend Art
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