Adam's The Antoinette and Patrick J.Murphy Collection 23rd October 2019

84 70 SONJA LANDWEER (B.1933) Elongated Ovoid Ceramic, 23cm high x 35 x 20cm (9 x 13.7 x 7.8“) Inscribed on artist’s label to base € 1,500 - 2,000 Sonja Landweer was born in Holland and trained there as a ceramic artist, achieving early international renown as one of the finest artist-potters of her gen- eration, before being recruited to come to the Kilkenny Design Workshops in the 1960s as an art expert. Prior to that, she had shown her ceramics in Holland, Japan, West Germany, Argentina, USA, Italy, Yugoslavia and Ireland and had been featured in publications on the top contemporary ceramic artists of the world. She also had a keen interest in ethnic art from many cultures and collected fine examples, as well as diver- sifying her art practice to make avant-garde jewellery and sculpture using indigenous materials. With painter Barrie Cooke she was central in organising fascinat- ing exhibitions of international applied arts as part of the Kilkenny Art Festival for many years. In recent years, she has begun to cast her ceramic sculptures in bronze. Her forms are inspired by natural shapes such as exotic seeds and organic objects and she is celebrated for her innovatory glazes and subtle pati- nas. She has shown her art worldwide and is included in many prestigious private and public collections, including the Stedelijk van Abbe-Museum in Eindhoven, the National Self-Portrait Collection in Limerick and the Ulster Museum in Belfast. She is a member of Aosdána since its inception and has shown regularly at the Hen- driks Gallery and the Peppercanister Gallery in Dublin, as well as in many group and museum exhibitions internationally. 71 SONJA LANDWEER (B.1933) Conker Bronze on limestone base, 22cm high overall, 17 x 19cm (6.6 x 7.4“) Provenance: With the Peppercanister Gallery, Dublin. € 1,200 - 1,600