Artist     Greta Berlin
Title      The Prisoner
Date      no information
object    Sculpture
Media    bronze
Size       to be measured
Ref          101

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The Prisoner
Greta Berlin was born in St Ives in 1942 and brought up in the artist and fishing communities of West Cornwall. She recalls being inspired by the potter Bernard Leach and her father Sven Berlin, the sculptor

After emigration as a young adult and years of travel with a young family, she settled in the New Forest to teach ceramics, making and showing her ceramic sculpture from 1974. Her work in three-dimensions took her onto stone carving and welded steel structures, offering her the freedom to work on a larger scale. In 1992 she moved to West Dorset. In 2005 she was short listed for the Shirt Factory Working Women sculpture project, Derry, Northern Ireland, and has shown regularly in Lyme Regis, Broomhill Sculpture Park, Barnstaple; Bridport Arts Centre, and at Arts Way, New Forest. In 2002 her sculpture was featured at the Sherborne House during Dorset Arts Week which was opened by Sir Anthony Caro.

Of her work it has been written (1):

“In her sculpture she reflects the dichotomy of our inner lives; a woman needing a creative life, maybe, yet fearing her ability to give her children all they need as well. The anomalies of the world around us; The ‘have and have-nots'. The innocent victims of conflict. And, in a lighter mood, the exuberance of a youth on a skateboard.

So far, in painting, it is about colour. Putting colours together that shimmer with energy. Her strengths lie with the figure, which she has drawn and sculpted for more than 40 years. Though, in two dimensions she also has the journey into landscape and context.”

(1) Extract taken from artsist’s page on: www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/yourgallery/artist_profile

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