Ama Menec - Sculpture
Fine art foundry bronze & stoneware ceramic sculpture.
Sculpted & cast in the West Country, UK.
My studio is at The Happy Crab Gallery 20A Gloucester street, Weymouth, Dorset, DT4 7AW and we welcome visitors! We are open 10.30am to 5.30pm Tuesday to Saturday. As well as the gallery area, we also have a small Sculpture Garden where you can see my ceramic garden sculptures surrounded by flowering plants. All the sculptures at the Happy crab Gallery are available to buy. You can also order work online, and I am currently taking orders for the life sized Badger 'Persecuted' and I am taking expressions of interest in the current piece I am working on of a Pine Marten.
The Happy Crab Gallery is now a stockists for Evolver Magazine
Current & forth coming Exhibitions:
9th November - 8th December Winter Art Exhibition, Dorset Wildlife Trust Wild Chesil Centre, Portland Beach Road, Portland, Dorset, DT4 9XE
22nd November- 1st December Winter Exhibition 2024, Art In Poundbury, Jubilee Hall, Great Cranford Street, Poundbury, Dorchester, Dorset, DT1 3BW
2024 Exhibitions:
Natural Order Exhibition, Macc Art Lounge, Cheshire
Society of Wildlife Artists Exhibition 2024, Birdscapes Gallery, The Barns, Manor Farm, Glandford, Holt, Norfolk
Dorset Art Weeks, The Happy Crab Gallery, Weymouth, Dorset
Chelsea Arts Society Summer Exhibition 2024 London
Sculpture by the Lakes Summer Festival, Dorchester, Dorset
Global Birdfair, Oakham, Rutland
Dorset Food and Arts Festival, Poundbury, Dorset
Purbeck Valley Folk Festival, Dorset
Shrewsbury Folk Festival, Shropshire.
Wildlife Sculpture Exhibition, Birdscapes Gallery, Norfolk,
2023Exhibitions:
Natural Eye 2023, Soc. Wildlife Artists, Mall Galleries, London
Ascott House, Wing, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire
Compton Acres Gardens, Poole, Dorset
Purbeck Valley Folk Festival, Wareham, Dorset
Royal Ulster Academy of Arts, Belfast
Shaftesbury Arts Centre, Shaftesbury, Dorset
Sou' Sou' West Gallery, Symondsbury Estate, Bridport, Dorset
White Chalk Gallery Summer Show, Devizes, Wilts
Selected Recent Exhibitions
Altered States, Shaw House, Church road, Newbury, Berkshire.
Artists For Conservation International Exhibit of Nature in Art
Artist in Residence, Nature In Art, Wallsworth Hall, Gloucs
Battersea Affordable Art represented by Hayloft Gallery
Bronze Raptors at the Oxford Natural History Museum
Delamore Arts, Delamore House, Devon.
Edinburgh Art Fair, with Hayloft Gallery, Scotland
EWAAC, La Galleria, Pall Mall, London
Fresh Air Art Fair Ascot with Hayloft Gallery, Ascot, Berkshire
Fresh Air Contemporary Art Fair Cheltenham Race Course
Fresh Air Sculpture Show, The Old Rectory, Quenington
Heart of the Tribe Gallery, 74 High Street, Glastonbury
Marks Hall Gardens & Arboretum Sculpture Show, Essex
Mythic Garden, Stone Lane Gardens, Devon
One woman show, Wild & Arcane, Turrill Sculpture Gardens, Oxford
Royal Academy Summer Open, Burlington House, London
Royal Scottish Academy Open, Edinburgh, Scotland
Royal Ulster Academy Open, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Sculpture in the Garden, Godinton House, Ashford, Kent
Society of Women Artists, Mall Galleries, London.
Society of Wildlife Artists, Mall Galleries, London
South West Academy, Exeter Castle, Exeter
Sou' Sou' West Gallery, Manor Yard Symondsbury, Bridport
The Sculpture Garden, Cookham Festival of the Arts, Berks
TWASI at Nature In Art, Twigworth, Gloucestershire
WWT Slimbridge Wetland Centre, Gloucestershire
Stockists Include:
Beach and Barnicott, 6 South Street, Bridport, Dorset.
Birdscapes Gallery, The Barns, Manor Farm, Holt, Norfolk.
Clovelly Pottery, Clovelly, Bideford, North Devon.
Southwest Crafts, 3a Church Ln, Tavistock, Devon.
Sou' Sou' West Gallery, Manor Yard Symondsbury, Bridport.
Awards
Wildlife Art Society International at Nature In Art, best sculpture in show for bronze Female Red Kite 2014
Awarded the Tate St Ives Prize for bronze Female Buzzard at the Royal Scottish Academy 2015.
Awarded the Brownston Gallery prize for bronze Female Red Kite, South West Academy 2016.
Awarded the Grand Prize for bronze Female Buzzard at East West Art Award Competition 2016
Recent publications and interviews Include:
Weymouth's Ama Menec's sculptures in prestigious exhibition, re 3 bronzes in the Mall Galleries Natural Eye 2023 exhibition. Dorset Echo 25th October 2023
Nile Goddess featured on the front cover of The Goddess Bible by Ashra Ball March 2023
Article on Focusing on Wildlife on 'Persecuted' and the British Badger Cull 16th February 2023
Article in Diva Magazine online "On why Anne Lister should have her own statue" Dec 2018 Diva-Magazine
Little badger featured in the Artists For Conservation International Exhibit of Nature In Art page 146, 2017
Contemporary Wildlife Art by Cindy Ann Coldiron. Pages 78 to 80 inclusive, published Schiffer Publishing 2015