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Sonja Landweer (Dutch, 1933-2019) Turquoise bowl of stepped form 16 cm. (6 1/4 in.) diameter
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Dublin 2, Europe
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Sonja Landweer (Dutch, 1933-2019) Turquoise bowl of stepped form earthenware with nickel glaze 16 cm. (6 1/4 in.) diameter Footnotes: Provenance The Estate of the Artist and thence by family descent Private Collection, Ireland Landweer's connection to Ireland came about as a result of a 1961 Irish Export Board report on the state of Irish design which concluded that it was a wholly neglected area, badly in need of revitalisation. As a result of this report the Irish government of the day established a series of residencies for international artists and Landweer came to Ireland to teach ceramics at the Kilkenny Design Workshops. Her work came to the attention of Irish gallerist David Hendricks, and she held many successful solo exhibitions of her unique ceramics in his Dublin gallery from the 1960s to the 1980s. It was also in Ireland that she met and fell in love with the English artist, Barrie Cooke who had moved to Ireland in the 1950's. Together with Cooke, she founded the Kilkenny Arts Festival (formerly the Kilkenny Arts Week) and hosted many Irish and international writers, poets, and artists, including Seamus Heaney. In 1995 when accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature, Heaney read his poem To a Dutch Potter in Ireland, inspired by his friendship with Landweer. As an artist, Sonja developed a very personal and experimental artistic vocabulary in a variety of mediums, and her work often incorporated found objects, slate, bone, beads, wood, paper and other fibres. Her fearlessness in her creative expression and her desire to explore and push creative boundaries is perfectly captured by the Irish Times art critic, Aidan Dunne, in his review of her retrospective exhibition at Visual Carlow when he said that 'she is not afraid to harness wild, almost uncontrollable processes and materials in pursuit of elegantly poised forms and surfaces'. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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Sonja Landweer (Dutch, 1933-2019) Turquoise bowl of stepped form earthenware with nickel glaze 16 cm. (6 1/4 in.) diameter Footnotes: Provenance The Estate of the Artist and thence by family descent Private Collection, Ireland Landweer's connection to Ireland came about as a result of a 1961 Irish Export Board report on the state of Irish design which concluded that it was a wholly neglected area, badly in need of revitalisation. As a result of this report the Irish government of the day established a series of residencies for international artists and Landweer came to Ireland to teach ceramics at the Kilkenny Design Workshops. Her work came to the attention of Irish gallerist David Hendricks, and she held many successful solo exhibitions of her unique ceramics in his Dublin gallery from the 1960s to the 1980s. It was also in Ireland that she met and fell in love with the English artist, Barrie Cooke who had moved to Ireland in the 1950's. Together with Cooke, she founded the Kilkenny Arts Festival (formerly the Kilkenny Arts Week) and hosted many Irish and international writers, poets, and artists, including Seamus Heaney. In 1995 when accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature, Heaney read his poem To a Dutch Potter in Ireland, inspired by his friendship with Landweer. As an artist, Sonja developed a very personal and experimental artistic vocabulary in a variety of mediums, and her work often incorporated found objects, slate, bone, beads, wood, paper and other fibres. Her fearlessness in her creative expression and her desire to explore and push creative boundaries is perfectly captured by the Irish Times art critic, Aidan Dunne, in his review of her retrospective exhibition at Visual Carlow when he said that 'she is not afraid to harness wild, almost uncontrollable processes and materials in pursuit of elegantly poised forms and surfaces'. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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