Mother and Child is a sculpture by prominent sculptor Ivy Zaman. She explored the purest form of bonding through this and instead of using the organic form to show love, affection, and giving nature of the relationship, she used a rigid, geometrical shape. She captured what many easily overlook. She showed power, strength, and inhuman sacrifice a mother makes for her child and celebrated her out of general “loving” portrayal.
Artist Profile
Ivy Zaman
Ivy Zaman is a renowned Bangladeshi Sculptor. She was born in 1958 in Bogra. In 1980 she received her BFA in Sculpture from Bangladesh College of Arts and Crafts (presently the Faculty of Fine Art, University of Dhaka). After that, she went to Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, India, and stayed there from 1988 to 1989 to pursue further education in Sculpture. She presented 3 solo exhibitions and has taken part in several group shows.
Mother and Child
Artist Art Style
Ivy Zaman, one of the country’s eminent sculptors, works to form a relationship between space and mass. She seeks motion in tranquility and transforms the chaos into stone, marble, or wood. Human and animal figures are common in many sculptures while others are abstract organic forms. Her paintings are mostly landscape composition. She also did some figurative paintings of Buddha.