Dance

Shona Nunan

2009

bronze

edition 2 of 8

49 x 18 x 10 cm

Dance comes from a story told by a wonderful Camaroon woman we met when we were traveling in China. In her home village, when a woman was beaten by her husband, or lost her child, or any other intolerable emotions she was enduring, her women friends would gather around her and tell her not to cry tonight, wait for tomorrow, tonight we dance. And they would dance all night till her strength came back to her spirit. In the morning it was all easier to bear. This is the woman’s dance.

Guardians on the Hill

Shona Nunan

1994

bronze, unique

20 x 21 x 15 cm

Woman by the Sea

Shona Nunan

2005

bronze edition 2 of 8

88 x 32 x 12 cm

She is reminiscent of the women waiting by the sea for the fishermen to return. She carries the boat-like tray on her head,

waiting for the gifts or the losses from the sea that day. She belongs to my Harvest series.

Her form is like an amphora. She is also inspired by the stories of old Italy, those gracious women in their long skirts

hitched up as they laboured in the fields or on the seashore, carrying great loads on their heads.

Harvest

Shona Nunan

original 2003*

bronze edition of 6

155 x 52 x 19 cm

*2016 second state

Sentinel at Arezzo

Shona Nunan

2014-2015

height 240 cm unique

Swires, Arrezzo residence, Hong Kong

Sentinel – Alassio

height 240 cm unique

Swires Properties Arezzo in mid Levels, Hong Kong

Neilma and Cassandra Memorial sculpture at Sorrento cemetery

The two figures carved by Shona in Carrara marble and the Boat carved by Michael in Carrara marble and sea in Maquina Spanish Black.

Neilma and Cassandra Memorial Sculpture – private garden

The two figures carved by Shona in Carrara marble and the Boat and sea carved by Michael in Maquina Spanish Black.

Woman in the Field

Shona Nunan

2005

Bronze Edition 2 of 8

81 x 32 x 15 cm

Woman in the field is part of my Harvest series of work. This particular sculpture comes inspired by old Italy. In our early days living in Pieve di Monti di Villa, above Bagni di Lucca, we met an old Italian man who returned to his village each year from America. He made good in America with his plaster figurines, a speciality of his home region in Tuscany, creating a whole industry of lamps from the figurines. One of his many wonderful stories of his youth included his memories of his mother, swaying gently up the hillside each day in her long skirts, on her head a platter filled with the lunch of the day for her family up working in the fields. She was such a welcomed and loved sight. Somehow I wanted to incorporate this feeling of gentle abundance in her amphora like form.

Three

Shona Nunan

1993

bronze 1 of 8

96 x 74 cm

Three, three women, guardians of the cave.