Almuth Tebbenhoff

 

Almuth Tebbenhoff is inspired by process: she loves the way objects of beauty and intrigue can emerge from a noisy session cutting and welding steel, sparks flying in every sense, or from a quieter but no less messy afternoon pushing wet clay around.

It's the simple fact of working with her hands to distil from dull, reluctant matter pieces that are always interesting, always challenging, invariably searching, frequently witty, often profound, and sometimes breathtakingly lovely. It is this physical labour of art that draws her restless spirit to sculpture.

She was born in Fürstenau in north-west Germany. In 1969, a year after completing her secondary schooling, she moved to the UK where she studied ceramics at the Sir John Cass School of Art from 1972 to 1975. Following that, she set up a studio in London and for the next six years made studio ceramics, while she developed her ideas for sculpture.

In 1981, Almuth established her Southfields studio in a former church hall. At first she worked in clay and wood, but in 1986 she started a two-year course in metal fabrication at South Thames College, London.

Her early pieces were monochrome — mostly grey — abstract explorations of space and volume through geometric devices. Since the early nineties, Almuth has been moving towards a freer mode of expression, creating explosive forms in bright colours through a steady evolution of processes, investigating her current themes of light, space and the origins of matter.

 

Exhibitions (selection of solo and group)

1983

Emslandmuseum, Schloß Clemenswerth, Germany

1990

Before Sculpture — Sculptors' Drawings, New York Studio School, New York, USA

1993

International Art Centre, Poznan, Poland

1994

Petrified, Installation on matter in space at Jodrell Bank Science Centre, Cheshire

1995

In an Ideal World, Alternative Arts, London

2001

Royal British Society of Sculptors, London

2005

RBS Sculpture exhibition in Leicester Botanical Gardens

2005

Fe2O5, Exhibition of steel sculpture at Myles Meehan Gallery, Darlington

2006

STEEL, Group exhibition at 1 Canada Square, Canary Wharf

2006

All Female Cast, Gallery Pangolin exhibition

2007

Studio Sem artists in the Harold Martin Botanical Garden, Leicester University

2008

Burghley Sculpture Show

2009

Woburn Abbey

2009

Sladmore Gallery

2010

Artdejardin at Wingwell

2010

Crucible, Gloucester Cathedral - major exhibition by Pangolin

2010

Gallery Pangolin

2012

Two in One, Gallery Pangolin, Kings Place, London

2012

Interesting Times, Leicester University Botanical Garden Sculpture Show

2012

Sculptors' Drawings, Gallery Pangolin, Kings Place, London

2013

A Change of Heart, Leicester University Botanical Garden Sculpture Show

2013

Steel Sculptures, Chelsea Arts Club, London

2014

Crucible 2, Gloucester Cathedral - curated by Gallery Pangolin in Chalford, Stroud.

2014

Royal Academy Summer Show, Royal Academy of ARts, Piccadilly

2014

Sculpture Show Leicester, Botanical Garden of Leicester University

2014

National Open Art Competition, Somerset House

 

 

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