STUDIO 11|Owen Dixon Chambers|Beatrice Magalotti|8 March - 9 April 2021

Beatrice Magalotti

A Survey

Owen Dixon Chambers East 8 March - 9 April 2021

Melbourne based artist, I currently work mainly in bronze.

I graduated with a MA in Art and Curatorial Studies in 1994 and have exhibited professionally for a number of years, and am a member of various prominent artist and sculptor organisations.

I am currently working on a new body of work that focuses on Migration. Boats metaphorically represent the paradoxical ease and difficulty of movement and travel embodied in the experience of migration.

PRIZES & AWARDS 2020 Sculpture Prize, CSA 2020 Sculpture Prize, MSWPS 2017 Yering Station, Sculpture Prize 2017 Annie Davison Oliver Award, MSWPS ART RESIDENCY 2019 Odense, Denmark 2018 Stöðvarfjörður, Iceland 2017 Stanley, Tasmania, Australia

The Fates -Clotho-Lachesis-Atropos Bronze 32 x 19 x11.5cm

Veiled 1, 2, 3 Watercolour pencil 34 x 29 cm

Spring Bronze 31 x 34 x 28 cm

Dragon Wings Cotton & bronze Flywire 62 x 73.5 cm and detail

Wounded Dragon Bronze 19 x 34 x 18 cm

Waiting Bronze 30 x 18 x 7 cm

The Three Dancers Bronze 33 x 26.5 x 22 cm

Naiads in Conversation Bronze 14.5 x 27 x16 cm

In 2017 I participated in an art residency at the Wharf Road Studio, Stanley, Tasmania where I was mentored by Jon Eiseman, Sculptor and Anne Conron, printmaker & ceramicist.

This residency enabled me to obtain critical feedback on my work and produce a significant new body of work. Lovers is one of the works from my five week residency in Tasmania.

Lovers Bronze 28 x 25 x10 cm

The Norns The three sisters of destiny from Norse Mythology, are female beings who create and control fate.

Each sister represents a different aspect of time: Urd (the past), Verdandi (the present) and Skuld (the future).

A collection of three elements in Bronze

Left The Norns Bronze 28 x 42 x 29 cm right detail

During May & June 2018 I was one of the artists at the Fish Factory Creative Centre, a multi-disciplinary Art Residency in Stöðvarfjörður, Iceland. For two months I worked and lived with other international artists in a new and unfamiliar environment.

The Völvas is one of the works from my two month residency at the Fish Factory, Iceland.

The Völvas were the female shamans in the Viking age and very much part of Norse Mythology. The word Volvas means wand carrier or carrier of a magic staff. As part of this sculpture I have incorporated the staff and bags in which herbs were carried.

The Völvas Bronze detail

The Völvas Bronze 30 x 30 x 14 cm

Taking Flight (Valkyrie) Bronze 28.5 x 27 x 20 cm

This sculpture Valkyrie is part of an evolving theme in my work: using abstract, organic shapes to create the figurative and the anthropomorphic.

Valkyrie is one of the works which I started at the Fish Factory, Iceland.

Valkyrie Bronze 21 x 25 x 7 cm

Valkyrie Bronze 21 x 25 x 7 cm

Forest (Myrkviðr) Bronze 24 x 38 x 34 cm

Seated Valkyrie Bronze 19 x 34 x 18 cm

In 2019, I participated in an art residency at Gæsteatelier Hollufgård, Denmark.

This was an ideal environment both for working and the healthy exchange of ideas between fellow residents.

It also provided me with a fresh outlook on my work. I was able to bring back new research including photos, sketches and a number of wax models for bronze sculptures.

Arrival Bronze 13 x 37 x 10.5 cm

Precious Cargo #1,2 & 3 Bronze

Precious Cargo #1 Bronze 30 x 6.5 x 8 cm Precious Cargo #2 Bronze 30 x 8.5 x 6.5 cm

Precious Cargo #3 Bronze 30 x 6.5 x 8 cm

Migration Series #2 Bronze 41 x 24 x 11 cm

Migration Series #3 Bronze 41 x 24 x 11 cm

Studio 11 Art Exhibition|Owen Dixon Chambers East, level 11, 205 William Street, Melbourne