Daisy Boman

Daisy Boman is an established Belgian artist & sculptor with an international career spanning over four decades.

Initially, Daisy Boman studied art at the Sissa school in Antwerp and then interior design and ceramics at the Academy of Fine Arts in Mol. During a residency in South Africa from 1981-1986 she studied ceramic art and it was in her atelier in Johannesburg that she developed her own personal style.

She was selected to become a member of ‘The Association of Potters of S.A’ and the ‘Artist Under the Sun Association’ and was selected multiple times for the National Ceramic Exhibition in Johannesburg.

On returning to Belgium in 1987 her creative practice in ceramics developed into the primitive, square-headed simplified human figures or ‘Bo-Men’ Bo-mannetje (mannetje = little man). As Daisy Boman personalised man in his most primitive form. His structure is rudimentary, and curiously, he is without a face and each man appears the same, and yet so different.

Square in face, their heads symbolise an unbending resistance to life’s challenges. Boman believes we are all ‘from the same mould’, injured by the society in which we dwell. At first glance they anatomically alike and uniformed and yet Daisy’s unique manipulation of each figure starkly portrays the human condition in all its richness and fragility.

Her work depicts a collective goal, evoking a sense of belonging, a united community, or destiny. Sometimes dozens of her ‘Bo-men’ characters strive, climb and struggle for the same goal. In contrast, a lone ceramic figure, or pair of figures are distanced by white space, powerfully communicating emotions of the need for human trust or togetherness.

Her art is appreciated by an international public and her work can be found in private collections in Australia, New-Zealand, South Africa, U.S.A, Canada, Hong Kong, Germany, France, the Netherlands and U.K.

The Nordic Art Agency are delighted to represent Daisy Boman exclusively in Scandinavia.