Maria Primolan

Sculptor and Architect
She creates mainly wooden, bronze or terracotta sculptures

Place: Turin, Italy

Maria Primolan was born in 1971 in Turin;
In 2016-2017 she startes several works inspired to the great musician and artist David Bowie, who died in January 2016, committing herself to the lime wood sculpture “The Angel’s Gift”.

In 2017 Maria creates“Bowie Bust of Beckenham-Bromley”, lime wooden bust dedicated to David Bowie entitled “Goodbye Mr Bowie”, exposed at the Library of Beckenham, Borough of Bromley, London.

In 2018 she ends two bust of terracotta dedicated to David Bowie inspired to Scary Monsters Record images, and Space Oddity Cover Record.

In 2018-2020 she created many sculptures portrait dedicated to David Bowie made of clay and raku ceramic.

Attended Vittorio Veneto Art School in the Piedmontese state capital, then she graduated in Architecture at Polytechnic of Turin.

Recent exhibitions
Group: 2019, “La Terra Degli Dei”, Gli artisti della ceramica nel Centro Storico di Avigliana, Chiesa di Santa Croce, Avigliana, Turin, Italy
Group: 2019, “#Artslab50”, David Bowie: tribute in paint and sculpture by Sara Captain and Maria Primolan, Ripley Arts Centre, Bromley, London, UK
Group: 2020, “Silhouttes & Shadows”, with Sara Captain, Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin, Ireland, Dublin Bowie Festival 2020
Solo 2020, “Word On A Wing”, Exhibition of David Bowie Sculptures, Westminster Library, London, UK
Group: 2020, “The Wall”, Meander and Mooch Art Gallery, Newark, UK