Featured Artist: Marian Fountain

{ Issue Ten }

 

1Anger1

Anger: “Grapes of Wrath” (silver, 3 x 5cm, 2012)


 
1Anger2

Anger: “Occupy” (bronze, 9.5cm diam. x 3cm, 2012)


 
2.Sloth1

Sloth: “Dog Dreams” (bronze, 9cm diam., 2013)


 
2Sloth2

Sloth: “One Tremor” (8 x 6.5cm, 1990)


 
2Sloth3

Sloth: “Small Bookends” (9.7 x 8 x 2.7cm, 2009)


 
2Sloth4

Sloth: “Shelter II” (15 x 6 x 3cm, 2008)


 
3Gluttony1

Gluttony: “Squeeze” (80 x 25 x 20cm, 2001)


 
3Gluttony2

Gluttony: “Woman Spoon” (18.5cm, 1985)


 
3Gluttony3

Gluttony: “Chrysalid” (wax for bronze, 12.5cm high, 2001)


 
4Pride1

Pride: “Muse de Bureau” (24 x 10 x 9cm, 2002)


 
4Pride2

Pride: “Nude (Nu)” (37 x 17 x 10cm, 1999)


 
4Pride3

Pride: “We Are Many” (bronze, 12.5 x 27.5 x 5cm, 2011)


 
5Lust1

Lust: “Triangolo” (13cm diam., 1985)


 
5Lust2

Lust: “Scroll” (29 x 24.5 x 3.5cm, 2005)


 
5Lust3

Lust: “Bedrock” (41 x 32cm, 1992)


 
5Lust4

Lust: “Bananas” (21cm h, 2000)


 
5Lust5

Lust: “Free Range (Freilauffen)” (16.5 x 11.5 x 6cm, 1990)


 
6Greed1

Greed: “Pill 2” (18 x 8.5cm, 2009)


 
6Greed2

Greed: “Possession” (22 x 10 x 10cm, 1997)


 
7Envy1

Envy: “Germe I” (12.5 x 17.5 x 10.5cm, 1995)


 
7Envy2

Envy: “Predator (Scorpion)” (41 x 22 x 14cm, 1997)


 

Marian Fountain

Marian Fountain is a New Zealand artist who has lived in Paris for 22 years and returns regularly to the country of her birth. She takes her inspiration from simple and recognisable forms in nature: a fish, a leaf, a pea pod – food from the earth. And on the surface of these forms the traces of underlying life – movement and energy are evoked with fine reliefs of waves, camouflages or tattoo. Her work has been exhibited at the British Museum, The National Gallery of Scotland, the Museo Archeologico of Milan, York Museum, Auckland Museum, and the French Mint. Some of her creations include the winners’ medals for the Commonwealth Games in 1990 and the America’s Cup in 2003, and the “Entente Cordiale” centenary medal in 2004.

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