Author: Tadd Hartland

A specialist in portraiture and contemporary figurative sculpture, Keziah is inspired by the tenderest moments of human interaction.  Her practise is focused on exploring the intangible qualities of the human experience, rendering private intimacy and fragility in raw clay and bronze.  Her sculptures evoke timeless themes of love, harmony and the search for balance in our lives.

Inspired by her own experiences living with Ehlers Danlos in a fragile body, Keziah’s work seeks to elicit the viewer’s empathy and tenderness, to engage them in connecting with their own place in the wider world, and to refocus them on the innate value of their connections with others and nature. 

Keziah has exhibited across the UK and Germany and has work in collections in the UK, USA, and Europe. Most recently her sculpture ‘Serenity’ was exhibited at the Mall galleries in the Royal Society of British Artists Annual show 2021. Her bronze portrait Tondo of world renowned chemist Rosalind Franklin who identified the double helix structure of DNA, and commissioned for Hampstead Heath Manor, has been selected for the Society of Portrait Artists exhibition this year. 

Notable sitters:
General Susan Ridge first female general in British Military History
Laura Bates celebrated Feminist Author
Menna Fitspatrick MBE and Jen Keho MBE Paralympic Gold medal winning ski Team.  
Mary Beard Cambridge Classicist and author
Hollie McNish Ted Hughes award winning poet
Max McMurdo Designer and engineer

GLENN MORRIS. BA (Hons), P.G.C.E., F.R.G.S.

As a professional sculptor with a keen and active interest in the environment, my work is informed by and concerned with the human relationship with time and the natural environment.
I have spent extended periods of time in the Arctic, travelling and living with the Inuit of Northern Greenland and Arctic Canada. I was also the leader and organiser of the ‘Arctic Voice’ project – an initiative that linked communities throughout the Arctic regions with schools in the UK. This involved an unsupported journey by canoe, kayak and dog sledge of over 3,000 miles. My interest and concern for the environment stems from my work in these regions, when I interviewed Inuit elders and scientists, as part of the Arctic Voice Project.

The times spent in the Arctic have had a profound effect on me and how I view our world and society. I have become acutely aware of the fragility of life and the environment and the tenuous path that humans follow through life. As a result, my work is both inspired and informed by the combination of beauty and harshness of the environment in the far north but perhaps, more importantly, by our relationship and response to the loss of things that possess beauty in any form.

I work predominantly in stone and mixed media using traditional carving techniques to create forms that at first sight appear abstract but are often based on very real encounters in the Arctic, or are informed by my environmental concerns. The forms and works tend to follow two or three lines of exploration: the sensual and feminine, the masculine, industrial form and more objective comments on things environmental.

I have a first-class degree in sculpture and have had work exhibited in public areas and also at the Royal Academy. I am a qualified teacher and spent a number of years teaching pottery. In addition to being a member of Sculpture Cymru, I am also a member of ‘Arts Alive Wales’ and the environmental and not-for-profit artist’s collective ‘Vulgar Earth’

Glens sculptures are available to see here