Lurcher Ceramic Dog Sculpture - Gemma Rees

Gemma Rees Mixed-Media Artist

Gemma Rees is a Sussex based artist specialising in creating highly textured canine sculptures.

After a career as a professional graphic designer, she experimented with 3D materials and from there her passion for making animal sculptures grew. Her specialism is dogs and how their quirky characters evolve through the process of doing a drawing, making a wire armature and then working with paper clay and resin to create the surface. Some sculptures are very labour intensive, taking weeks to build. Her aim is not to shape a realistic canine, but instead interpret its personality through the materials and gestural form.