JENNIFER MANN SCULPTOR
Jennifer Mann
SCULPTOR
About
Jennifer Mann is a sculptor living and working in the Macedon Ranges in Australia with a body of work comprising portraits, figurative sculptures and bronze statues. Working in bronze (lost wax casting method), terracotta, marble, plaster and resin, she has commissioned works on permanent public display in Melbourne and Sydney, and privately commissioned portraits in Australia and Italy.
She has travelled regularly over many years to the USA, Italy and the UK to refine her sculpting skills in portraiture, traditional Florentine terracotta sculpture, and marble carving in Pietrasanta, Italy. Seeking a deeper understanding of facial anatomy to hone her portrait and figurative sculpture skills, she also trained at the Universities of Texas (USA) and Dundee (UK) in anatomy and forensic facial reconstruction sculpture and currently holds the position of Forensic Sculptor at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine.
Jennifer’s sculptures reflect her intense interest in faces and portrait sculpting. She aims to sculpt deeply nuanced and sensitive portraits that suggest an inner life of her subjects and capture a true likeness. Her sculptures engage the viewer in a uniquely personal way and incite curiosity on an emotional, psychological and empathetic level.
She has travelled regularly over many years to the USA, Italy and the UK to refine her sculpting skills in portraiture, traditional Florentine terracotta sculpture, and marble carving in Pietrasanta, Italy. Seeking a deeper understanding of facial anatomy to hone her portrait and figurative sculpture skills, she also trained at the Universities of Texas (USA) and Dundee (UK) in anatomy and forensic facial reconstruction sculpture and currently holds the position of Forensic Sculptor at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine.
Jennifer’s sculptures reflect her intense interest in faces and portrait sculpting. She aims to sculpt deeply nuanced and sensitive portraits that suggest an inner life of her subjects and capture a true likeness. Her sculptures engage the viewer in a uniquely personal way and incite curiosity on an emotional, psychological and empathetic level.
The road to statue equality
As long as I can remember I have been fascinated by faces and sculpting portraits. I think that making portraits and portrait statues is a uniquely human art form that needs both skill and empathy. It stands independently of and alongside the prevailing contemporary art of any given era. Statues have a role to play beyond aesthetics and statements of power. Figurative and portrait sculpture should belong to everyone, and my aim is to create sculptures of people whose lives and personal values we would like to honour and to inspire generations to come.
I am working towards statue equality – to create sculptures of women in our urban landscape to balance our existing historical and contemporary statues of which less than 15% are of women. My goal is to make high quality statues in public spaces in Melbourne and Australia of historical and contemporary women (including First Nations, colonial, immigrant, trans, disabled women and women of colour) who epitomize the values we most admire and celebrate as a society. A body of figurative works that reflects who we are and what is important to us. Works that generate empathy and curiosity in us, inspire, motivate and educate us now and in the future.
I am working towards statue equality – to create sculptures of women in our urban landscape to balance our existing historical and contemporary statues of which less than 15% are of women. My goal is to make high quality statues in public spaces in Melbourne and Australia of historical and contemporary women (including First Nations, colonial, immigrant, trans, disabled women and women of colour) who epitomize the values we most admire and celebrate as a society. A body of figurative works that reflects who we are and what is important to us. Works that generate empathy and curiosity in us, inspire, motivate and educate us now and in the future.
I live and work on the unceded sovereign lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation. I pay my respects to elders past and present and acknowledge that this always was and always will be Aboriginal land.
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