Shimon Drory

The main theme in my artwork is the human image. Part of the figures are abstract, made of Carrara marble and Marmara marble. Those material are my favorite as i learned to like them while working in workshops in Carrara, Italy. Another part is formed of metal, clay & concrete. In my work i strive to express the woman's beauty, tenderness & gentleness, much more than the man's strength. While visiting Florence, Venice, Athena, Paris, Luxembourg, i realized that placing human shaped sculptures in empty spaces in nature or in the town square, enables each person there & than to have an emotional experience.



He developed working skill with blocks of Rocks, forming a human figure that emerge out of the stone, revealing the sculpture that was hidden wrapped inside. A rock that is holding within it variety of forms and processes as they are kept frozen out of feeling deep love to life and to the forms in nature. My belief is full with hope and the yearn for creativity has no limits.



Achieving perfection will be accomplished through hard work, caused by the constant need to know and understand all the possibilities and limits of the material and the plasticity laws. As a sculptor i situated always with the dilemma betwee...

- MA in social work, Hebrew university of Jerusalem, 1983
- BA of Arts, Haifa University, 1973

1967 "Narkis" center single Q.Tivon, Isreal
1968 Hamelin House, Hapoel group Tel-Aviv, Israel
1970 Lesin House group Tel-Aviv, Israel
1970 HaHistadrut House single Q. Tivon, Israel
1970 "Rama" camp. N.Y. group NewYork, USA
1975 Comm. Center Hadagnyot single Q. Tivon, Israel
1980 Haifa University single Haifa, Israel
1980 Bismut House single Q. Tivon, Israel
1980 Comm. Club artists Q. Tivon, Israel
1983 Farmers House single K. Tabor, Israel
1984 Comm.center Berkovitz single NIllit, Israel
1985 Yad labanim single K. Tivon, Israel
1985 City Hall artists Jerusalem, Israel
1993 Technical school N. David single Haifa, Israel
1993 Laborer council single Tiberias, Israel
1993 Beytenu center single Yavne`el, Israel
1994 Culture Hall single Yavne`el, Israel
1995 Kaduri center single Kineret, Israel
2003 Ako Auditorium group Ako, Israel
2003 Kastra Center group Haifa, Israel
2004 Maalot symposium group Maalot, Israel
2005 "Chiaro e scuro" group Pennsylvania, USA
2009 Bet Gabriel single Kineret, USA