Dumančić Hrvoje – Lucija

Born in Zagreb, Croatia. Hrvoje completed the School of Applied Arts and Design in 1994 and graduated in sculpture from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in 1998. He has been a member of the Croatian Association of Artists since 1998, and of the Croatian Freelance Artists’Association since 2004. He has exhibited in about thirty group and ten individual art shows in Croatia and abroad. He received the Aramis award for sculpture at the Tenth Salon International de Saumur in France in 2002. That award enabled him a study visit to the art house Le Colombiere in Saumur. He is also a member of the Society of Equestrian Artists in London, and has participated in international art shows in Paris. He was invited to hold an exhibition in Szarvas in Hungary during the third world horse riding festival. This year his sculpture has been selected for the international art show organised by ArtAnima from Paris. Hrvoje won the first award for sculpture at the Horse in Art exhibition show at Mall Gallery in London. Horses are the main motif of his work, which aims to popularise use of horse motifs in art.