

Bronwyn Sibley
Artist / Sculptor
New Zealand born, settled in the UK in 1989, Bronwyn's biggest influences of her art come from her love for nature, natural forms and spiritual awareness.
Growing up in New Zealand gave her a life immersed in nature and symbology which is where her inspiration derives from. She carves a lot of symbols from her New Zealand heritage and brings the meanings of them into her work. She also loves the flow within the music symbols and bringing them to life in the 3D form of sculpture.
Her work expresses the power of the nature and the calmness of the divine underlying all that is by capturing the belief that nature is imperfectly perfect. Believing that this is true to all of life, she represents it in her sculptures by allowing the shape of the stones to form the designs and keeping as much of their natural roughness to keep them as close as possible to their natural states.
The majority of her work is carved out of up-cycled building blocks, therefore repurposing old Ytong blocks destined for landfill into beautiful sculptures for both the home and garden. Working with the broken and discarded blocks reinforces that anything and everything can be perfectly imperfect as she incorporates some of the defects into the sculpture.
Bronwyn loves working on commission pieces and in 2023 she was commissioned a piece which was presented to HRH Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh. So a once, abandoned block now stands proud in the home of HRH in the form of a Koru. A symbol representing new beginnings, love, strength and peace as well as moving forward harmoniously into a new phase of life.
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