Tag: Pietrasanta

Emma Elliott: ‘Being human is the most important thing. Just being human and not fighting’

The Passion For Freedom ambassador talks about her current project, which brings together the stigmata of the crucifixion and the Holocaust, seeking to create a dialogue of unity and reconciliation within a fractured society
Helaine Blumenfeld: ‘Beauty has no real meaning any more’

The sculptor talks about her ideas of beauty and pain, and how she learned to express these through a visual language
Almuth Tebbenhoff: ‘I’m wrestling with ideas that are way out of my control’

The sculptor talks about the perpetual puzzle of the cosmos and its vastness, eternity and the meaning of life – all themes running through her work, no matter what its scale
Alice Cunningham: ‘The quarries were my biggest inspiration’

The artist talks about her experience of learning to work with marble from Michelangelo’s preferred quarry and her determination to remain sensitive to the form and the surface as a whole