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Flor Kent was born in Puerto La
Cruz, Venezuela, in 1961. She lives and works in London.
Kent first interest in sculpture
dates back to her childhood when her mother took her for extra
curricular classes. But Kent the sculptor had to wait a few years
to come out: she first gained her first university education
as Bachelor of Sciences and later a Degree as Doctor in Dental
Surgery in Caracas and Chicago. She travelled the world and earned
her living as a very successful dental surgeon. Kent always found
time to continue developing her art. While living in Bahrein
she organised and exhibited continuously. Timber and clay was
then her choice of material.
Once she moved to London, she gained
her BA in Arts, and later a MA in Arts for Site-Specific Sculpture
in Wimbledon School of Art. With her public art project "Für
Das Kind" signalled the conclusion of her studies. Her piece,
located in Liverpool Street Station, installed in association
with the Museum of London and the Imperial War Museum and supported
by the Jewish Community, is an homage to the children saved from
Nazi Germany that made the faithful journey from Berlin to London,
arriving at the save - heaven of Liverpool Street Station. The
piece, comprising a glass cabinet that resembles a giant suitcase,
contains real objects belonging to the some of the rescued children.
The bronze figure, is actually a life cast, aged 8 and dressed
with contemporary clothes, of the grandchild of one the rescued
girls.
Public Art in:
2006 Memorias del Valnegral,
Madrid, ARCO, with Renata Fernandez (proposal)
2003 Für Das Kind, Liverpool Street Station, London
2002 Nativity, Matterhorn Glacier, Zermatt (Switzerland)
2001 Memories of a Seagull, Tout Quarry, Portland (UK)
2000 Iris After the Flood, Cannizaro Park, London |
