Annie Montgomerie
Montgomerie is a skilled mould maker, she has a huge imagination and talent with inspiration coming from sources such as vintage photographs, old-school class photos, animal photography, vintage textiles, and flea markets. Preferring to work in three dimensions, means sculpting with clay is often her way of sketching ideas and thoughts to begin the creative process; starting with the face first, forming the expression and personality with layers of muslin and glue to create a hard outer shell before creating the body and clothes from vintage finds.
Annie Montgomerie’s work relates to childhood and the moods intertwined in that precious stage of life. Combining a love of animals, Annie creates childlike figures with expressive faces conveying a range of magnified emotions that a child may feel in different situations. Cats, lambs, foxes, and dogs often occur in her collections, each one covered in layer upon layer of fabric, strategically placed to replicate the differing directions of the fur or skin, striving to achieve that ‘loved-to-death’ look. Their bodies are vintage finds, usually from the 70’s and 80’s, which add a sense of nostalgia to each piece which often has a toy or ‘favourite’ object to cling to.
Courtesy of Yorkshire …
Montgomerie is a skilled mould maker, she has a huge imagination and talent with inspiration coming from sources such as vintage photographs, old-school class photos, animal photography, vintage textiles, and flea markets. Preferring to work in three dimensions, means sculpting with clay is often her way of sketching ideas and thoughts to begin the creative process; starting with the face first, forming the expression and personality with layers of muslin and glue to create a hard outer shell before creating the body and clothes from vintage finds.
Annie Montgomerie’s work relates to childhood and the moods intertwined in that precious stage of life. Combining a love of animals, Annie creates childlike figures with expressive faces conveying a range of magnified emotions that a child may feel in different situations. Cats, lambs, foxes, and dogs often occur in her collections, each one covered in layer upon layer of fabric, strategically placed to replicate the differing directions of the fur or skin, striving to achieve that ‘loved-to-death’ look. Their bodies are vintage finds, usually from the 70’s and 80’s, which add a sense of nostalgia to each piece which often has a toy or ‘favourite’ object to cling to.
Courtesy of Yorkshire Sculpture Park
