Dorothea Magonet

ABOUT

Dorothea’s love for making sculpture began with stone and wood carving. Now she works with all sorts of media, often exploring the tension between traditional materials and a variety of ‘lowly’ every-day or found stuff.

Her installations point towards architectural, historical and environmental concerns. She creates sculptures, re-evaluating the human form and investigating our contemporary engagement with the body. In other works, either the material qualities drive the theme of a work or the material is chosen to fit the concept, enquiry, issue and observation.

Inspired by her frequent travels to Japan, her explorations include assemblages on paper and on traditional Japanese scrolls, wood block printing, and etching. She has also designed book covers.

She has a studio practice at Queensrollahouse, West London, and has exhibited through Suffolk and Kingsgate Workshops Open Studios as well as in group and solo shows in London.

In addition, since 1984 Dorothea has been teaching the Alexander Technique to music students at the Royal Academy of Music and in her private practice in London and abroad.