TERESA WELLS

Teresa Wells
by Artisanry Co., 2020

Teresa Wells explores the tenuous relationship between humans and society through the medium of sculpture. She possesses an ethical consciousness along with a fascination for the question, “How do Humans Behave?” There is a need for her to express this in ways that reach out for a shared experience. Employing an illustrative and baroque style to the recreation of the human form, she offsets emotional theatrical posturing against strong geometric steel shapes, to illustrate that when we are alone, unsure and vulnerable that is when our true humanity comes through. We survive despite our flaws and it is our whole selves that make us beautiful. She obtained a first-class honours degree in Fine Art from Nottingham Trent University, 1996, and undertook postgraduate studies at Loughborough University, where her tutors included John Atkin FRBS and Dan Archer FRBS. The work ranges in size from 30cm high to 4 meters in bronze that celebrate man’s physical and emotional survival over adversity, inspired by the dynamic movements and resulting shapes produced by the human body particularly from athletes and dancers. An international multi-award-winning sculptor, Teresa works to commission and sell work through various gallery platforms in the UK, The Netherlands, and the USA. More recently she was commissioned by BBC1 and Netflix to produce a sculpture for the highly acclaimed fictional drama ‘Dracula’ by Stephen Moffat and Mike Gatiss. With numerous TV appearances and features in monthly periodicals including Flux Review, ITV Meridian, and BBC1, her work has recently been acquired by The Robert T Webb Sculpture Garden, Georgia USA, and sits in their permanent collection alongside the work of Isamu Noguchi.

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