Anne Curry ARBS
Anne Curry’s monumental sculptures fuse the ancient and modern and convey the immense internal energy found in nature. Her unfurling leaves and bursting seed pods are a powerful exploration of the mathematical rules that underpin the process of growth, informed by the clean lines and pared down aesthetic of ancient Egyptian sculpture.
Her ability to communicate the extraordinary and pregnant power of nature has attracted an international following of private collectors and invitations to international exhibitions including the Venice Biennale, the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew in London, the Royal Enclosure at Ascot.
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French born, Anne has lived in England since studying for her doctorate in Eyptology at Oxford University at which time she discovered the power of sculpture and the seed was sown for her future career. French born, Anne has lived in England since studying for her doctorate in Eyptology at Oxford University at which time she discovered the power of sculpture and the seed was sown for her future career.
Anne was first a painter and has exhibited with the Royal Institute of Watercolours.
A passionate gardener, she is profoundly aware of the mathematical rules that underpin the process of growth in the natural world. Fascinated by plant development, she recorded her vegetable garden in a series of paintings for a solo exhibition “Le Potager” in Paris in 1998.
At the same time, Anne began to explore sculpture. In 1989, she started studying with Rosemary Barnett, until recently Head of the Frink School of Figurative Sculpture. She was quickly recognised as an accomplished portrait sculptor at home and abroad: her high profile commissions have included the busts of Roy Jenkins, Michael Heseltine, and John Major, for the House of Commons collection of leading statesmen.
After working for several years on the human figure, Anne once again found inspiration in nature and embarked on a new journey of discovery. Cultivating her garden she closely observing plants and captivated by life unfurling and developing in the form of flower buds, leaves and seed pods, she translates this extraordinary process, on a monumental scale, into bronze or resin.
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2019
Royal Enclosure, Ascot
Cotswold Sculpture Park
Marks Hall, Essex
2018
Royal Enclosure, Ascot
Doddington Hall, Lincolnshire
2017
Sculpt at Kew, Kew Gardens, London
Venice Biennale, 57th International Art Exhibtiio
2016
West Lavington Manor, Wiltshire
Kew Gardens
2015
Newby Hall Gardens, North Yorkshire
2014
Duin & Kruidberg Estate in Santpoort, Netherlands
Beddington Fine Art in Bargémon in Var, France
2013
Cookham Festival with Barn Galleries, Henley on Thames
Beddington Fine Art in Bargémon in Var, France
Summers Place Auctions in association with Sotheby’s
2012
Burghley House Sculpture Garden, Lincolnshire
Beddington Fine Arts Garden Sculpture, Var, Franc
Summers Place Auctions in association with Sotheby’s
2011
Sir Harold Hillier Gardens, Hampshire
Painswick Rococo Garden, Gloucestershire
2010
“Natural Sources”, The Cartshed Gallery, Dorset
“Sculpture in the Garden”, Newland End Gardens, Essex, featuring her latest large scale sculptures based on organic shapes
2009
Newby Hall Gardens, North Yorkshire
2008
Levens Hall, Cumbria
2007
Arndeane Gallery, London. Solo sculpture exhibition of portraits, nudes and stone carvings of plant forms
2006, 2002, 1999, 1997
Society of Portrait Sculptors, London
2005
- Olympia Antiques Fair, and BADA Fair, London, with Stephen Jack Fine Arts: portraits and nudes
2004, 2003
Art London, with Fine Art Commissions: portrait
2002
Arndean Gallery, London, with Fine Art Commissions: portrait
2001
Clotilde Vulliemin – Geneva
1998
- Royal Society of British Artists, London: stone nude
1995
- National Portrait Gallery, London; “Breaking the Mould: Material and Methods of Sculpture.”
1991
Starts working on commissions
1991-1989
Studies sculpture under Rosemary Barnett, until recently Head of the Frink School of Figurative Sculpture in Stoke-on-Trent
1972
Moves to East Anglia, brings up a family and creates a garden.
Publishes The Egyptian and Egyptianizing Monuments of Imperial Rome (under her maiden name A. Roullet) – Leiden 1972
1971-1968
Assistant Editor for La Revue de l’Art, in Paris
1968-1961
Doctorate in Egyptology (Oxford)
Degree in History of Art (Sorbonne, Paris)
Degree in Political Science (Bordeaux University)
