{"id":2,"date":"2012-06-20T10:31:42","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T10:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.louisedentice.co.nz\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-01-23T22:13:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T22:13:35","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.louisedentice.co.nz\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Based in London, New Zealand born sculptor, Louise Dentice has been exhibiting internationally since 2001. Working primarily in ceramic and bronze, she produces sculpture, medallic art and jewellery.<\/p>\n<p>Influences in her work are wide ranging; Mayan pottery through to surrealist painting are stylistically apparent in the pieces. Functional forms,\u00a0architectural features and wildlife inform shape and surface treatments. A\u00a0play with scale and physical tension is often present within the artworks and reoccurring themes are journey, fear and expectation.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-429\" title=\"Img-Aboutme-01\" src=\"https:\/\/www.louisedentice.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Img-Aboutme-01-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Louise Dentice photo\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.louisedentice.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Img-Aboutme-01-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.louisedentice.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Img-Aboutme-01.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Louise is a member of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bams.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">British Art Medal Society (BAMS), <\/a><a title=\"Medal Artists of New Zealand (MANZ) \" href=\"http:\/\/www.medalartnz.co.nz\/index.pl?page=home\">Medal Artists of New Zealand (MANZ) <\/a>group and the <a title=\"International Federation of Medal and Coin Makers (FIDEM)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fidem-medals.org\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">International Federation of Medal and Coin Makers (FIDEM)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sfsi_widget sfsi_shortcode_container\"><div class=\"norm_row sfsi_wDiv \"  style=\"width:210px;text-align:left;\"><div style='width:30px; height:30px;margin-left:5px;margin-bottom:5px; ' class='sfsi_wicons shuffeldiv ' ><div class='inerCnt'><a class=' sficn' data-effect='' target='_blank'  href='http:\/\/instagram.com\/louise.dentice_artist' id='sfsiid_instagram_icon' style='width:30px;height:30px;opacity:1;'  ><img data-pin-nopin='true' alt='Instagram' title='Instagram' src='https:\/\/www.louisedentice.co.nz\/wp-content\/plugins\/ultimate-social-media-icons\/images\/icons_theme\/thin\/thin_instagram.png' width='30' height='30' style='' class='sfcm sfsi_wicon ' data-effect=''   \/><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div ><div id=\"sfsi_holder\" class=\"sfsi_holders\" style=\"position: relative; float: left;width:100%;z-index:-1;\"><\/div ><script>window.addEventListener(\"sfsi_functions_loaded\", function()\n\t\t\t{\n\t\t\t\tif (typeof sfsi_widget_set == \"function\") {\n\t\t\t\t\tsfsi_widget_set();\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t}); window.addEventListener(\"sfsi_functions_loaded\",function(){var s = jQuery(\".sfsi_widget\");\n\t\t\t\t\tvar pos = s.position();\n\t\t\t\t\tjQuery(window).scroll(function(){\n\t\t\t\t\tsfsi_stick_widget(\"0\");\n\t\t }); }); <\/script><div style=\"clear: both;\"><\/div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Based in London, New Zealand born sculptor, Louise Dentice has been exhibiting internationally since 2001. Working primarily in ceramic and bronze, she produces sculpture, medallic art and jewellery. Influences in her work are wide ranging; Mayan pottery through to surrealist painting are stylistically apparent in the pieces. Functional forms,\u00a0architectural features and wildlife inform shape and surface treatments. A\u00a0play with scale and physical tension is often present within the artworks and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","no-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louisedentice.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louisedentice.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louisedentice.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louisedentice.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louisedentice.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/www.louisedentice.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1178,"href":"https:\/\/www.louisedentice.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/1178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louisedentice.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}