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STUCK FOR CHRISTMAS PRESENT IDEAS? .......BOOK A MOSAIC COURSE!

28TH-29TH Jan 2012
Beautiful setting of Assington Mill in Suffok go to the website for bookings.
www.assingtonmill.com


AWARDED COMMMISSION FOR NEW LIBRARY AND ARCHIVE CENTRE IN KENT. COLLABORATION WITH METAL SCULPTOR MICHAEL CONDRON

SUMMER PROJECT IN GERMANY WHERE I MOSAICED A TRABANT NOW STANDING IN THE GROUNDS OF A CASTLE

INSTALLED PHOENIX AT BROOMFIELD HOSPITAL IN CHELMSFORD

NEW YORK EXHIBITON TO TOUR TO CANADA

CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW - MIRACLE GROWERS LEARNING JOURNEYS GARDEN - SILVER GILT

GARDEN TOOLS MADE WITH LONDON SCHOOL CHILDREN FOR GEOFF WHITTEN'S MIRACLE GRO GARDEN.
FOLLOW THE LINK FOR PICTURES - YOU CAN JUST ABOUT MAKE OUT THE WATERING CAN AND TROWEL!

www.lovethegarden.com/blog/royal-visitors-to-the-miracle-...

FOLLOW THE LINK TO CHANNEL 4 ON DEMAND KIRSTIE'S HOMEMADE HOME FROM NOV 2010 TO SEE ANNE HELP A COUPLE IN AYLESBURY MOSAIC A GARDEN BENCH!

www.channel4.com/programmes/kirsties-homemade-home/4od#31...





Anne Schwegmann-Fielding transforms functional objects. Utensils, tools, logs, and other familiar objects undergo metamorphosis, and emerge as sculptures, mosaics, jewels and ornaments.

This act of transformation is central to Anne’s work, making the ordinary extraordinary, she gives overlooked objects significance. Her recycling and re-use of materials began as a child, making things from whatever she found around the home. She has continued to be fascinated by materials which have had a previous life, and has an ongoing concern surrounding the disposable society in which we live and the often thin line between what is valuable and what is worthless.

An ardent collector, she sources objects such as old tools, wheelbarrows, mannequins and boxes which she then sets about embellishing with cup handles, broken crockery, shattered bus shelter glass and buttons. Once gathered, the selected items are laboriously cut by hand with the use of one simple tool. Tiny individual pieces are cut and shaped to requirement – each piece as important as the next, and then carefully positioned. The object is given a second skin.

A research residency in early 2008 in Gujarat, India saw the addition of jewelled plastic bangles to Anne’s ever growing catalogue of materials. These are also used by her guru Nek Chand, of Chandigarh’s Rock Garden, where she created a sculpture for the park.

Her love for decoration of the everyday and resourcefulness was echoed by the Kutchi people. The embroidery and mud and mirror work of Kutch made a huge impression on her. The intense and vibrant colours and patterns in the fabrics, the gold and mirror in many of the Jain temples and the costumes and jewellery in the film Jodha Akhbar ( in particular) have all had a profound effect on her new work. The ideas gathered from this were exhibited at her solo show in December 2008 at the European Commission.

Anne has been creating sculptures, panels and floorings for public spaces for 18 years. She exhibits her work nationally and has work in private collections around the world.


Email Anne at: anneschweg@gmail.com

Clients/ Commissions/Residencies include:

Channel 4's Kirsties Homemade Home, Google, HSBC, White Box, New Yord, Writtle College, London Zoo, Recycled Sculpture Show, European Commission, BBC2 Escape to the country, The Gardens of Easton Lodge, Crittall Windows,
Research Residency - Arts Reverie, Gujarat, India, Broomfield, Essex County and Colchester Hospitals, Barratt Homes, International Symposium; Thuringen, Germany, BBC2 Fantasy Rooms, London Garden Show-Alexandra Palace (Gold and Best in Show) Braintree Museum, Hatfield Forest



Websites:
www.anneschwegmannfielding.com is under construction due to complete sometime soon I hope!!
More work/information can be seen at the websites below:

www.myspace.com/anneschwegmannfielding
www.hat.mmu.ac.uk/residencies (india blog)
www.wivenhoe.gov.uk/Arts/annesf.html

www.cade.writtle.ac.uk
www.eastonlodge.co.uk