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Picture This: The Space Between, Pangolin Gallery London
Nest 5, 2019 and Flight II - both bronze

EIGHTY years ago, fleeing impending nazi occupation, 10-year-old Charlotte Mayer arrived in Britain from Prague.

Her life had been turned upside down, so perhaps it is not coincidental that through her abstract work Mayer seeks, and finds, serenity in an exhilarating equilibrium of forms, where the mathematics of the spiral are the enduring vocabulary.

Monumental Turning, 2016 and Sea Scarf - both bronze
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