So they say, chronicles the life and art of Australian Lithuanian artist, Ieva Pocius. Ieva was studying to be an architect, when world events changed her life path. After years of living as refugees in Germany, Ieva and her family migrated to a new life in Australia. Once established in Adelaide, Ieva pursued her hidden passion, art. She became the first student to receive the Diploma in Fine Art – Sculpture, from the Adelaide School of Art in 1963.
 
Her oeuvre includes abstract welded metal, clay, wood, and papier-mâché. She liked her forms to be compact, strong with minimal detail. She used her sculpture to express her reflections on women, her culture, and beliefs. Her work could be compared to German artists Ernst Barlach and Käthe Kollwitz. 
 
A strong independent woman, of body and mind, her most notable works include the statue of Catherine Helen Spence in Light Square, Adelaide and Eglė Queen of the Serpents in Glebe Park, Canberra. 
 
Ieva has been recognised as being one of the best South Australian sculptors of her generation. Her unpretentious attitude to her work, may be one reason she is not more widely known. 
 
This book explores more about Ieva’s work, her influences and life.
 
Written by her granddaughter, Daina Pocius