Canadian born, Sheila Vollmer has made London her home since 1987 after a post graduate in Sculpture at St Martin's School of Art. In Canada she completed a BA in Visual Art at the University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, 1985. She has exhibited widely in Britain and undertaken commissions nationally and internationally. She has also been featured in group exhibits in…
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Canadian born, Sheila Vollmer has made London her home since 1987 after a post graduate in Sculpture at St Martin's School of Art. In Canada she completed a BA in Visual Art at the University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, 1985. She has exhibited widely in Britain and undertaken commissions nationally and internationally. She has also been featured in group exhibits in Eire, Canada, United States. Recent exhibitions have included: travelling exhibit Fe2 05 of 5 women sculptors working with steel in Darlington and Canary Wharf, London; Royal West of England Open Sculpture exhibit 2007; and Sculpture in Paradise Chichester Cathedral cloisters.
Awards have included The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, British Council Travel Grant, A4E Express lottery Grant for Forms in Flux group's inaugural exhibition and an Ontario Arts Council Grant. Jobs supporting her art have included being painter Euan Uglow's model 1987-89, Anthony Caro's technician 1990-91 and presently Head of Sculpture, Drawing & Painting at Morley College, London.
'My sculptural work is primarily with geometric shapes in the abstract with references to the architectural, spiritual and constructed world. The materials and processes that I work with are various, but at present I am concentrating on steel and casting. I explore the poetic emotional responses triggered by an object and its scrutinized detail and colour. Architecture is also an influence particularly for the poetry and symbolism of spaces and the shared human experience our physical and emotional selves have to the spaces around us. My aim is to stay true to the material I am working with, while creating an image with a breath and meaning of its own.'
