Stoponja Marina – Earth

Born in Zagreb, Croatia, in 1959, Marina graduated in sculpture from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in 1999. In 2008 she enrolled in a specialist doctoral study at the same Academy. She has been a member of the Croatian Association of Artists and the Croatian Freelance Artists’Association since 2001, and has exhibited her work since 1992. She has organised about a dozen individual shows in Croatia and abroad, and participated in about thirty group jury exhibitions in Croatia, Slovenia, Austria, Italy, France, the Netherlands and Korea. She has also taken part in a dozen international sculpture symposia and authored about ten monuments and sculptures set in public places. In 2002 she worked with the Italian curator A. Sibilia to present selected works by Croatian artists in Forlio, Italy. Marina’s works can be found in numerous collections and she has received several awards for her output, including the special Chancellor’s Award in 1997. Apart from sculpture, she works in interior product design. She is based in Zagreb and a studio on Plješivica. Her basic medium is marble.