Gunvor Anhoj

Gunvor hails from a family of engineers and priests so perhaps it is no surprise she ended up a sculptor. Her first memory of metal was it’s distinct smell visiting her granddad’s workshop on the West Coast of Denmark. Her first meeting with iron as a tool, was when required to plough the fields the old way with horses and a one-furrow plough. Gunvor composes her sculptures using a minimal amount of components which she assembles in a way that suggest a childish or informal creation. Her work is dramatic yet playful. To retain a sense of the human touch – which can be otherwise absent in large scale metal sculpture – Gunvor purposely leaves her maker’s marks in the form of heavy surface texture.

Higher National Diploma in 3D design crafts / blacksmithing at the Hereford College of Art & Design 1998-2001

Exhibition Crux at: glór Gallery Ennis, Burtown House Gallery Athy, Custom House Gallery
Westport, Siamsa Tíre Arts Centre Tralee. Vanishing Art - a Celebration of Irish Sculpture, The
Kildare Gallery (2016 & 17); Russborough Sculpture Exhibition by Gormley’s Gallery (2014);
Forged - 20 years of Blacksmithing, Hereford College of Arts, England (2013); Group Show at
The Andrews Gallery, Titanic Experience, Belfast (2012); Contemporary Sculpture in Irish
Gardens, Ballintubbert Gardens, (2011); Sculpture in Context, National Botanic Gardens, (2009
- 19); RDS Crafts Competition & Winning Entries Travelling Show, (2011 & 12); The Chelsea
Flower Show, (London 2003-2005) and New Designers Show, Islington, (2001)