Kerry Anne Boer was born in 1957, grew up in the Northern suburbs of Sydney and was educated in the public schools system of New South Wales. She has worked directly with her husband in the Sydney stone industry for over 40 years.
On Xmas Eve 2011 her love affair with natural stone sculpture began when her Brookvale stonemasonry business imported Australia's first state-of-the-art 7 axis robotic stone milling machine. She now sculpts with all types of natural stone including marble, limestone, granite, sandstone, bluestone & onyx.
Kerry is a self-taught, Australian “Cyber Sculptor”, creating concepts using inspiration from life and then sculpting them in virtual clay inside an advanced software programme to form a 3D maquette.
Each work begins as a traditional quarry stone block and is reduced to the required size with stone specific diamond wire technology.
Kerry’s robots are then programmed to remove the major waste from her raw stone block with innovative, specially designed and stone specific diamond milling tools, leaving Kerry with a rough form of her 3D concept shape to be traditionally hand shaped and finished to perfection.
In 2012 Kerry studied Anatomy for Artists with Scott Eaton of London UK. She completed her Master of Arts by Course Works at UNSW Art & Design (COFA) in 2021 and is a full member of The Sculpture Society.
Her works are strongly influenced by movement to music (Latin American, Ballroom & Salsa dancing), poetry, scent and humour, the interplay of water & light on surfaces, fashion and the soft voluptuous curves and flowing swirls of the female form.
She has exhibited her sculptures in various Exhibitions since 2013
2013 Australia Square Sculpture Exhibition
2013 Class Art Gallery Exhibition
2014 Class Art Gallery Exhibition
2014 MLC Centre Sculpture Exhibition
2014 Sculpture At Hillview Exhibition
2015 Darling Park Sculpture Exhibition –
Highly Commended Award for “Jennifer”
2016 Incinerator Sculpture Exhibition
2016 Sculpture At Hillview Exhibition
2016 MLC Centre Sculpture Exhibition
2016 Chatswood Chase Exhibition
2016 Angel Place Exhibition
2016 Art Space on the Concourse
Roger Fenton Prize for “Eliza's Pregnant Pause”
2017 Harbour Sculpture Exhibition
2017 Out of Hand Exhibition MAAS (Mother & Child video)