HAND ME DOWNS
Image: 'Little Terra and Eeffa'. Hand Me Downs series. Annie Montgomerie. Courtesy of Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
Initially studying stone carving at Weymouth College, then specialising in silversmithing and jewellery at Plymouth College of Art, it was only whilst working as an art technician, that Annie Montgomerie began working with clay and model making. Now an internationally renowned textile and mixed-media artist, a new show of her work has recently opened at Yorkshire Sculpture Park (5 November 2022-26 February 2023). Focusing on both the joy and the agony of childhood, Hand Me Downs features her signature anthropomorphic creatures, conveying magnified, childlike emotions...
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