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Ailsa Magnus

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Ailsa Magnus is a professional sculptor, a graduate of Edinburgh College of Art. Working over 30 year on public art commissions throughout the UK. She is a member of the Royal Society of Sculptors.
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Ailsa Magnus MRSS graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 1989. After completing postgraduate studies at Gray's School of Art, Robert Gordon's University, Aberdeen, she spent 4 years at the Scottish Sculpture Workshop. During this time she concentrated on exhibiting and building on her skills, developing a portfolio of work. Ailsa moved to Selby from her native Scotland in 1994. After 22 years Ailsa has now relocated back to Fife.

Ailsa has established a solid reputation in public art. In addition to carved wood and stone sculptures, her public commissions across Northern England, London,Wales and Scotland have included carved brick relief walls, cast relief floor-scapes and decorative paving. Her most recent works have been cast in iron both free-standing and ground based. In 2010 she was made an Associate of the Royal Society of British Sculptors. 

Artist's Statement: The motivation for the work is the opportunity to make and place works of an enduring quality, both aesthetically and literally, in the environment. Works which enhance, inform, cause discussion or debate and have a relevance to the lives of the community. This is what Istrive to develop with every new project that presents itself.

 

Whitburn

Bondgate Bench 1

In The Beginning

Seen Through Hand and Heart

Knotrope

Stepping Stones

Fingertip Search

Durham Time Line

Scatter

Memory Map

Conversation Piece

April Showers Bring May Flowers (Droplet 2)

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