Penelope Margaret Mackworth-Praed

Penelope Margaret Mackworth-Praed (born 1947) is a Swiss-English sculptor and installation artist who works primarily in complex mathematical art. Her work has been featured internationally in Italy, Great Britain, Switzerland, and Bulgaria, Canada, France, Holland, Japan, and the USA, among others.
Biography
Mackworth-Praed grew up in the Southeast English countryside. Her father was an entomologist. Educated at Wimbledon, Falmouth, and Epsom Colleges of Art, she graduated in 1976. Between 1969 and 1972 she constructed her first piece using the underlying numerical base which would become characteristic of her work.
From 1972 to 1974 she made a prolonged journey across the Middle East and South asia researching the common numerical foundations at the root of religious philosophies, art, and architecture of many different cultures.
In 1977 she married renowned composer Paul Glass and settled permanently in Carona, Switzerland, from where she works primarily in Ticino, Zurich, and Milan.
Since 1985 she has been an active and award-winning member of the Swiss Visarte Group.
Works
Mackworth-Praed has had solo exhibits in public collections in Germany, Switzerland, and Bulgaria, including the .
Her works have been featured in numerous private collections in Bulgaria, Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Italy, Japan, Switzerland, and the USA. She has had solo exhibitions in dozens of private galleries including Städtische Galerie in Freiburg im Breisgau, and Galleria Milano. Her art was featured on the television production of Amici Miei in 2000.

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