Femme de Rocher, bronze edition 6 (cast from bronze) 1994, 50.8 x 63.5 x 25.5 cm

Dawn Rowland FRSS

British, b. 1944

Born in London, Dawn has worked as a sculptor in San Francisco, London, and Manchester. Her sculptures are primarily carved in stone, but they are also made in bronze, wood, terracotta, plaster, and silver Dawn’s drawings are also part of her artistic language.

As a sculptor, she explores the interdependency and fragility of human relationships and how these fit into the world around us. As a woman, she expresses her own experiences . However, her work speaks to underlying feelings and emotions which are universal.

As a stone sculptor she carves directly into the stone enjoying the physicality, freshness, fluidity, and sensuality that comes from working this most wonderful of material. Although working mainly in stone she also enjoys the differences that come from making a sculpture in bronze. The way the light bounces off the finished bronze creates a very different mood to stone.

Elected a member of the Royal British Society of Sculptors in 1991, Dawn was made a Fellow of the Society in 1994. She has served on the Council of the Society many times and is also a member of the Manchester Academy of Art. She has had exhibitions in the UK and Japan and her sculptures and drawings are in private collections in the UK, Europe, Japan, the United States, Australia, and Canada.

She now lives and works in London