This stunning marble work is the perfect example of Almuth Tebbenhoff's work. Uplifting and irresistably tactile Tebbehoff has released the inner beauty of the marble with 'Joy'. Working every summer in the marble studios in Pietra Santa, Italy Tebbenhoff has truly honed her skill in carving over the past decade and this piece with its delicate and slightly translucent fins is perhaps her most challenging marble work to date.

Born in Fürstenau in north-west Germany, Tebbenhoff moved to England in 1969 where she studied ceramics at the Sir John Cass School of Art from 1972 to 1975. Following that, she set up a studio in London and for the next six years made studio ceramics while she developed her ideas for sculpture.

In 1981, Almuth established her Southfields studio in a former church hall. At first she worked in clay and wood but in 1986 she started a two-year course in metal fabrication at South Thames College, London. Her early pieces were monochrome - mostly grey - abstract explorations of space and volume through geometric devices. Since the early nineties, Tebbenhoff has been moving towards a freer mode of expression, creating explosive forms in bright colours through a steady evolution of processes, investigating her current themes of light, space and the origins of matter.

Tebbenhoff is a Fellow of the Royal British Society of Sculptors and has exhibited widely in Britain and Europe. In 2009 she created the ‘Star of London’ award for the BFI Film Festival and in 2013 curated the annual sculpture exhibition at the University of Leicester and was awarded an honorary doctorate. In 2019, she was elected as Vice President of the Royal Society of Sculptors. Her work The Red Head Sunset Stack was on show in Sculpture in the City in 2022 and she currently has a major solo show at Gallery Pangolin.