Pacheco, Ana Maria (b.1943)

Creator details

Name
Pacheco, Ana Maria (b.1943)
Nationality
Brazilian
Biography
Ana Maria Pacheco (born 1943) is a Brazilian artist who works in the United Kingdom. Following degrees in both Sculpture and Music in Goiás and Rio de Janeiro, she taught and lectured for several years at Universities in Goiás before she moved to London in 1973 to study at the Slade School of Art; from 1985 to 1989, she was Head of Fine Art at the Norwich School of Art. Despite also being a painter and printmaker, Pacheco is best known for her multi-figure groups of polychrome sculptures carved from wood. These are typically exhibited as installation pieces and include Man and his Sheep (Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery) and Dark Night of the Soul (1999), created during her residency at the National Gallery, London as a response to The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian by the Pollaiuolo brothers.

Assets (121 in total)

Shadows of the Wanderer (detail), 2008 (polychrome wood)
Dark Event VII, 2007 (drypoint)
The Longest Journey, 1994 (polychrome wood)
The Rise and Fall of a Tyrant II, 1982 (graphite & charcoal on paper)
Enchanted Garden, 2011-15 (polychrome alabaster)
'The Turning World' (I), 2012 (polychrome wood & mixed media)
Domestic Scenes 2, 2000 (etching, hand coloured by the artist in tempera)
Drawing Study for Sculpture – The Banquet, 1983 (charcoal, graphite & pastel on paper)
Domestic Scenes 5, 2000 (etching, hand coloured by the artist in tempera)
Untitled, 2011 (polychrome wood)
Domestic Scenes 9, 2000 (etching, hand coloured by the artist in tempera)
The Banquet (detail), 1985 (polychrome wood )

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