Anne Schwegmann-Fielding (born 1967) is a British sculptor and

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artist, who has been producing artworks made from recycled materials since the early 1990s. Schwegmann-Fielding established her studio in

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, Essex in 1993, a couple of years after graduating in Fine Art at

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. Her work is informed by the discarded resources of daily life, especially with respect to the re-use and recycling of obsolete materials. This is reflected in her transformation of objects such as old tools, implements and vehicles into sculptures through the application of broken tableware, shattered glass and jewels to their surfaces. In 2008 Schwegmann-Fielding received an 'International Research Fellowship for The Contemporary Crafts' and travelled to India where she met and worked with

Nek Chand Nek Chand Saini (15 December 1924 – 12 June 2015) was a self-taught Indian artist, known for building the Rock Garden of Chandigarh, an eighteen-acre sculpture garden in the city of Chandigarh. Early life and background Nek Chand hailed fro ...

at the

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in India. She cites Chand as having had an influence on her practice along with the work of the kutchi Artisans of India. Of her own sculpture Schwegmann-Fielding says that "adornment is central to my working process, essentially giving an unwanted object a second skin. Covering abandoned tools and utensils amongst other things, with broken crockery, glass and jewellery." She has worked with

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, Kunstsymposium, Kleinbreitenbach, (1999, 2006, 2012) – Schloss Elisabethenburg, Braintree Museum,

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, Symington Building, Writtle College, Vorsicht Kunst,

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and Arts Reverie,

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, India and is a professional member of BAMM (The British Association for Modern Mosaic).

Selected collections

*Chelmsford Museums *East Contemporary Art Collection *

, India

Awards

Anne Schwegmann-Fielding, Balkerne Star, Colchester, 2006

*(2008) International Research Fellowship for The Contemporary Crafts *(2005) Leverhulme Trust Award

References

External links

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Public Art

East Anglian Artists
{{DEFAULTSORT:Schwegmann-Fielding, Anne 21st-century British artists 1967 births People from Colchester English women artists English sculptors Mosaic artists Living people Alumni of the University of Wolverhampton 21st-century English women 21st-century English people