Martin Selman

Based: Auckland

 

The work of Martin Selman engages the language of stone carving with specific focus to Carrara marble.  His commitment to the medium has involved extensive work, research and travel in New Zealand, Italy, England and Switzerland.

 

Selman works with notions of shaping a dynamic fluidity, transforming a hard and unresponsive material into an object of softness, seduction and lightness.  His choice of material and imagery are bound by their relations to the classical lexicon.

 

In 2005 Selman was invited to Switzerland to facilitate a sculpture workshop at an international arts festival.  He exhibits regularly in New Zealand, and his work is represented in private, public and corporate collections throughout New Zealand, Switzerland and the United States of America.