Dominique Sutton

Dominique Sutton ( Sydney , 1st January 1970 ) is an Australian sculptor .

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 * 1 Life and work
 * 2 Works (selection)
 * 3 Photo Gallery
 * 4 External link
 * 5 Sources

Life and Work [ edit ]
Sutton was born in Australia but got her education entirely in England . After high school she attended from 1989 to 1990, an art course at the West Surrey College of Fine Arts and from 1991 to 1993 she studied at the John Moore's University in Liverpool . With a scholarship she closed her education at the San Francisco Art Institute in San Francisco . They had various assignments in London and had her first solo exhibition of drawings and paintings in 1994 at the Wonersh Gallery in Surrey.

In 1996, Sutton returned to Australia, where she was appointed as a sculptor in bronze foundry . With its welding experience it was in 1998 commissioned three steel to manufacture wire sculptures for the AMP Tower in Sydney, to commemorate the 2000 Summer Olympics, the images had to symbolize the participants in the Olympic and. Paralympic Games : the gymnast, sprinter and the handicapped basketball player. The images, each 12 meters, were produced with the help of 50 welders and a helicopter mounted on the terrace situated at 250 meters altitude. [1]

The three images were reinstated after the games elsewhere.

Works (selection) [ edit ]

 * The Lovers (1995), Guildford (England)
 * Carved dancer (1995), London
 * The Sprinter (1998-99, reinstated in 2002), Sydney Olympic Park
 * The Paralympic Basketball Player (1998/99), relocated to the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) in Canberra
 * The Gymnast (1998/99), relocated to the AIS, Canberra
 * Wall sculpture (1999), Sydney
 * A Walk in Time (2003), George Street in Sydney
 * Out to sea (2004), Sculpture by the sea, Sidney
 * The Australian Railway Memorial (2005), station Werriz Creek in New South Wales [2]