User:SollaiCartwright

Sollai Cartwright is a marble sculptor, born in 1988, countryside Victoria, Australia. Sollai studied carving in Pietrasanta Italy, under the tutelage of Italy’s Artigiani. He returns to this art mecca annually to collect marble from the queries and has them sent to his permanent studio in Berlin, Germany where he lives with his wife and Muse, Contemporary - Danica Hilton.

Sollai takes his inspiration from nature, his greatest teacher, but also frequents the many art masters housed in museums world wide; he is particularly fond of old masters such as Moore, Brancusi, Marini, Picasso, Matisse, but is, inevitably influenced by all things that make the heart yearn.

For Sollai, carving and making Art is a pursuit in connecting with the universe, "I carve because it takes me away from ego, and connects me to the Universe and beauty in a productive way.”

Many of Sollai’s sculptures are purely explorations of form and light. His works are a journey to the beholder as well as to himself and he would say that he is in collaboration with the marble itself and the materials desires are as important as his own. The works therefore establish themselves in very organic and evocative forms.

Sollai has had exhibitions in Australia House, London, celebrating the centenary of the buildings construction on the Strand, 2018. Art Central Hong Kong with MARS Gallery of Melbourne, 2018. He has a major piece in esteemed Bei Wu Sculpture Park Germany and showed for the opening in 2016. Sollai has had solo exhibitions with MARS gallery Melbourne, 2016, Hardman Gallery Berlin 2018, private shows in collectors gardens and salons in Hong Kong and Berlin. Sollai is placed in major private collections, such as with the late Art Collector, Neilma Gantner. He otherwise has works collected in Melbourne, Sydney, Hong Kong, London, Amsterdam, Berlin, Tuscany and Montreal.