Fiamma Colonna Montagu
Works available
Stone Flower
2007
White Ceramic
3.5m high / 11ft5 3/4 ins high
Biography
(1971-)
Fiamma Colonna Montagu is best known for making large-scale ceramic forms and installations, including many major private and public commissions. In 2006 she was commissioned by the New Art Centre to create Cloud Trees, two massive ceramic forms in iridescent silver blue/bronze glaze. In 2008 she is exhibiting a new work, Stone Flower, which is hand-coiled, raw fired and glazed in white. As with much of her work, this sculpture creates a strange, dream-like mood when it is placed in the landscape, inviting the viewer to walk around it as if in a reverie or on a theatrical stage.
Half Italian, half English, Colonna Montagu grew up in London, and studied at Bryanston, a co-educational liberal arts school in Dorset, followed by Oxford University. Since then she has worked as a film maker and ceramic artist specialising in large scale ceramic work and installations.