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Althea Wynne

Althea Wynne is best known for her serene sculptures produced in ceramics by the coiling technique. However her work in other two and three dimensional media shows that she can also portray lively movement and vitality as well.

Whether in sketches of a model or in the elegant forms of her sculptures, all of Wynne's work is heavily informed by studies of femininity. Aside from her realist female sculptures, her more abstracted designs and even her 'non-female' subjects, such as ammonite shells and centaurs, are also composed of sensual curves and natural, flowing lines.

Althea received her degree from The Royal College of Art and has won several important commissions in the last couple of decades. Her work appears in many public spaces in Britain and in sculpture parks across the world. In 1999 she exhibited pieces in 'Shape of the Century: 20th Century British Sculpture', a major retrospective held across public spaces in the city of Salisbury, UK.