Stephanie Davies-Arai Sculptor

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Pin-up II 2011 Portland stone 62x32x18cm

A Decade of Sculpture in the Garden 2011

New sculpture ‘Pin-up II’ has been selected for A Decade of Sculpture in the Garden at the Harold Martin Botanic Garden, University of Leicester.

The exhibition runs from June 26th – October 30th.

More information at arts-visual@le.ac.uk


Figure (Heart) at the Runnymede Gallery, Windsor

December 2010

Sculptures are currently on display at the Runnymede Gallery, Windsor, and the Lansdowne Gallery, Lewes

 


Chiddingly Festival 2010

Sculptures can be seen on the Sculpture Trail and at Farleys Barn Gallery at this year's Chiddingly Festival


Battle Contemporary Open 2010

5 sculptures have been selected for this year's Battle Contemporary Open exhibition


Cork St Open 2010

New Portland stone sculpture 'Pin-up' has been selected for the Cork St Open Exhibition2010

www.corkstreetopenexhibition.co.uk

 


Exhibitions 2010

Cranleigh Arts Centre Open Exhibition, Cranleigh, Surrey 6th-31st July

'Sculpture in the Garden', Godinton House, Ashford, Kent 23rd July-15th August 

'Art in the Garden 2010' Sir Harold Hillier Gardens, Romsey, Hants  22nd May-31st Oct          

'The Sculpture Festival', Sausmarez Manor Art Park, St Martin, Guernsey  23rd May-Oct

'Sculpture in the Garden', The Walled Garden, Sunbury on Thames 18th -31st May

'Heart Head & Hands' Sir Harold Martin Botanic Garden, Oadby, Leicester   27th June-19th Sept

 


Figure with Animal

RSPCA Commission

The sculpture 'Figure with Animal' was commissioned by the RSPCA as a centrepiece for its newly designed Memorial Garden in 2007. The sculpture was completed in December 2007 and transported to the RSPCA Headquarters in January 2008. The garden was officially opened in July 2008.

The brief stated that the sculpture needed to represent the RSPCA, as well as what the garden stands for, which is a place of remembrance for pets, or loved ones who were animal lovers. The sculpture was  designed  to reflect the nurturing relationship between animal lovers and their pets, using simplified abstracted forms which are symbolic rather than strictly representational.  The overall idea was the image of a rosebud protected by the petals curled around it. The sculpture is quiet and reflective; a point of focus for the garden without dominating it; an image to help  people to reflect and remember peacefully.

 


Sculpture at Wisley Gardens: Sitting Female

Wisley Garden Exhibition

Surrey Advertiser 5th September 2008 Arts Review:


‘Garden provides fertile ground for sculptures’

Stephanie Davies-Arai’s Sitting Female, a sinuously sculpted homage to fertility in Portland stone, is a pure abstract form that conjures an opening flower. Fertility is a very appropriate theme for garden sculpture.  (Beatrice Phillpotts)

Annual Sculpture Exhibition by over 70 members of the Surrey Sculpture Society, RHS Wisley Garden, September 2008.

 


Wrapped Around Figure

Recent Work

The artist has been working on a series of small sandstone sculptures for indoors and 'sketches' for larger works, having sourced a wide variety of different coloured and textured blocks of sandstone. 

The latest series of sandstone figures can be seen in the Smaller Sculptures Gallery.

 


Mountainous Figure at the Cork Street Open

Mountainous Figure accepted for the Annual Cork St. Open Exhibition

Recent sandstone sculpture 'Mountainous Figure' was accepted for the Annual Cork St. Open Exhibition 2009.

 


At the Cork St Open 2009 Private View with Sir Derek Jacobi

Cork St. Open Exhibition 2009

The exhibition ran from 6th - 14th August at The gallery in Cork St., London, and the Private View was opened by Sir Derek Jacobi. For more information about the Cork St. Open, visit their website at:www.corkstreetopenexhibition.co.uk