MARIE ACKERS Press Kit
Toro
A R T I S T
B I O G R A P H Y
Marie Ackers is a French contemporary sculptor based in England, working in bronze and resin. Self-taught, she has developed a singular sculptural language that distils animal presence to its most essential form, inding the geometry, line and curve that reveals the soul of each subject.
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In luenced by the French Animalier tradition of François Pompon, the geometric modernism of Lynn Chadwick, and the reductive philosophy of Brancusi, her work spans across ive distinct collections: Horses and Riders, Essence of the Wild, Bulls and Bears, Inspired by Birds, and Independent Studies. Each sculpture moves through a rigorous process of clay explora on, resin and nally bronze. Her work is exhibited in galleries and interna onal exhibi ons across Europe, and is collected privately in the UK, Europe, and beyond.
The Small Walking cheetah
A R T I S T
B I O G R A P H Y
I have always been drawn to animals, not to their surface or their beauty, but to something deeper. The
essential presence that makes each creature unmistakably itself.
I don't impose a single language on every animal I sculpt, I listen to what each one needs and ind the geometry, the line, the curve that reveals its soul, its presence, its attitude. The horse demands lowing line and mythic stillness. The rhino demands geometric mass, the architecture of an animal unchanged for millions of years. The leopard demands concentrated power held in perfect balance. In a world that never stops adding noise, my work tries to do the opposite , to strip each animal down to its most powerful essential form. To ind the stillness at the centre. To make visible what has always been there, waiting to be seen. I N F L U E N C E S
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François Pompon — The French Animalier Tradition Growing up in France, the great Animalier tradition and Pompon above all, shaped Marie's instinct that animal form could be reduced to its most essential and most powerful presence without losing its soul. Pompon's pursuit of the irreducible, his ability to strip an animal down to pure form while keeping it completely alive, remains the deepest root of her practice. Constantin Brancusi — Simpli ication as Revelation From Brancusi, the understanding that simpli ication is not subtraction but revelation. That the essential form of a subject is more true and more present than any surface detail could ever be. That less, pursued with rigour and honesty, becomes more. Lynn Chadwick — Geometric Modernism From Chadwick , whose work Marie loves with an immediacy that has always felt like recognition rather than admiration. She found the geometric language that makes her work fully itself. The angular planes, the sharp edges catching light, the ability to make a relatively small bronze feel monumental.
The Walking Cheetah 2022 · Bronze 46 × 100 cm · Edition of 8
Spirit of Savannah 2024 · Bronze 45 × 29 cm · Edition of 8
The Three Riders 2020 · Bronze 88 × 70 × 30 cm · Edition of 8
Toro 2026 · Bronze resin ( Cold cast bronze) 65 cm x 50cm Size on its plinth is 1m75· Edition of 12
The Bull Head 2021 · Bronze 35 × 27 cm · Edition of 8
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E X H I B I T I O N S
2025 – 2026 — AppArt Exhibition, UK (April 2025) — Sculpture by the Lakes — Into the Wild, Gallery by the Lakes, Dorchester — Sculpture by the Lakes — FORM 2025, Dorchester 2024 — Winsor Birch — The Little Gallery, Marlborough, UK — Sculpture by the Lakes — Into the Wild, Gallery by the Lakes, Dorchester — Sculpture by the Lakes — FORM 2024, Dorchester — Winsor Birch — Permanent Sculpture Park Exhibition, Cheshire — Cotswold Contemporary, Cirencester 2023 — Sculpture by the Lakes — FORM — Cotswold Sculpture Park — Group Exhibition — SAB Expo Animalier, Brussels, with Galerie Philippe Heim 2022 — Sculpture by the Lakes — FORM — Cotswold Sculpture Park — Group Exhibition — Wild, ArtClub Gallery, Paris — Fresh Art Fair, Ascot, with Sheridan Russell Gallery — Luckham Park with Muse Sculpture Company — Ascot Races with Muse Sculpture Company Earlier — Affordable Art Fair Battersea with Catharine Miller Gallery (2018, 2019) — Affordable Art Fair Hong Kong & New York with Linda Blackstone Gallery (2014) — EQUUS, Gallery at Sculpture by the Lakes (2015) — RHS Wisley Sculpture Trail (2017) — Society of Equestrian Artists, Mall Galleries, London — Society of Women Artists, Mall Galleries, London — Biennale de Sculpture Anim li re, Rambouillet, France — Salon National des Artistes Animaliers, Bry-sur-Marne, France A W A R D S
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— Valiant Stakes Prize, Ascot (2011) — Salon des Artistes Français — Gold Walking Cheetah and Small Sitting Cheetah accepted (2020)
The Amazone and the green horse - close up
Marie Ackers Sculpture Website
www.marieackers.com
marieackersart@icloud.com
Phone
+44 (0)7803 750 949
Instagram @ackerssculpture
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Animal presence distilled to its most powerful essential form.
Exhibited & Collected Interna onally © Marie Ackers Sculpture 2026