Fiamma Colonna Montagu
Ceramic sculpture
FIAMMA COLONNA MONTAGU is an artist specialising in large-scale ceramic sculpture and site-specific commissions. Her vessels and small maquettes, often the first stage for large-scale work, are available alongside major pieces at Sladers Yard, set in the Dorset landscape that inspires her. We are also delighted to organise site-specific commissions.
Fiamma’s sculptures are made combining numerous high-fired stoneware clays with porcelain – black, red, buff and stone grey – and oxides. Each ‘element’ is thrown, shaped or hand carved, before being assembled into the piece, The result is to create sculpture with strongly contrasting elements, the delicate qualities of porcelain against the rough and powerful stoneware.
We are delighted to show Fiamma Colonna Montagu work. Any enquiries please contact us on t: 01308 459511 or email: gallery@sladersyard.co.uk
If you are thinking of a larger commission, examples of Fiamma’s site-specific large-scale sculpture can be seen further down this page.
3. Meditation Totem: ‘In Praise of Worlds’ stoneware and porcelain sculpture on metal base 206 x 40cm £8,200 
9. Circle of Life ‘Contrasting Elements’ stoneware and porcelain sculpture on metal base. H71 x W58cm including base £3,400 
11. Meditation Totem ‘The Queen and the Sacred Moon’ stoneware and porcelain sculpture on metal base. 51 x 14cm £1,200 
15. Meditation Totem on Creation stoneware and porcelain sculpture on metal base. 33 x 11cm £600 
18. Deep Seascape Bowl. 10 x 41cm Stoneware with Cobalt and Oxide Glazes £465 
24. Landscape Vessel 19 x 18.5cm stoneware and porcelain £400 
25. Landscape Vessel H16 x W16cm black stoneware and porcelain £375 
26. Landscape Vessel H13 x W16.5cm black stoneware and porcelain. £375 
Biographical details
Since 2000 she has been making large-scale sculptures commissioned by art collectors, notably a series of circles or ‘Portals’ up to 3m in diameter and a series of ‘Meditation Totems’. These beautiful works do not fail to engage us both in the landscape and in the interiors where they are placed. In 2023, she completed ‘Blue Sky Dreaming’, a large portal for a private garden in the Algarve and two ‘Open Sanctuary’ sculptures, meditation spaces made with artist Sam Selwyn Bazeley, which were commissioned by clients in Portugal and Hampshire.
In 2014 she produced the acclaimed ‘Blood Swept Fields’ poppy installation in commemoration of the WWI centenary at HRH Royal Palaces at the Tower of London, overseeing the making of 888,246 ceramic poppies for the largest single art installation staged internationally.
Fiamma’s ceramics are made using porcelain and stoneware high-fired with cobalt and iron oxides to create subtle natural colours and finishes on strong elemental forms. Now living with her family in West Dorset, Fiamma Colonna Montagu grew up in London. She studied at Bryanston, a co-educational liberal arts school in Dorset, followed by Oxford University.
Recent exhibitions include Robert Bowman, Mayfair 2022; West Downs Gallery, Winchester 2022; Rebecca Willer, London; New Art Centre, Roche Court and Sladers Yard gallery in Dorset.
We are delighted to discuss commissions for Fiamma’s portals, vessels and totems. For more information please contact Anna Powell on 01308 459511 or email: gallery@sladersyard.co.uk
A look at some major works Fiamma has made to commission.
Please contact us on email: gallery@sladersyard.co.uk tel: 01308 459511 if you would like to discuss commissioning a site-specific sculpture from Fiamma.
Portals
‘Blue Sky Dreaming’
‘Blue Sky Dreaming’ Portal
Ceramic boulders, discs and carved components
2.5m x 0.50m x 2.5m
2023 – Private Commission – Portugal, Algarve
Sphere Portals
‘World enough’ Portal
Stoneware and porcelain spheres
2.5m x 50cm
Private Commissions – United Kingdom
Genesis Portal
‘Genesis’ Portals
Stoneware and porcelain spheres
2.5m x 50cm
Private Commission – United Kingdom
World Enough and Time Portal
‘World Enough and Time’ Portal
Stoneware and porcelain discs
2.5m x 50cm
2018 – Private Commission – The Rodens – Wiltshire, UK
Totems
Totems for interiors
Porcelain, black and natural stoneware
Sentinel Totems – 1.60mx 0.30m
Meditation Totem – 2m x 0.50m
2023 – Private Commissions – London, United Kingdom
Sculpture Gardens and Large-Scale Installations
Vessels
Weston Vessels
‘Weston Vessels’
Ceramic Hand Coiled Vessels with metallic lustre glaze
1.8m and 1.6m and 1m x 1.65
Sladers Yard 
: Stunning-Creations.
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