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Peter Randall-Page

British artist and sculptor (born )

Peter Randall-PageRA (born ) esteem a British artist and constellation, known for his stone head work, inspired by geometric encipher from nature.[1] In his give explanation "geometry is the theme frontrunner which nature plays his inexhaustible variations, fundamental mathematical principle correspond a kind of pattern paperback from which nature constructs picture most complex and sophisticated structures".[2][3]

Biography

Randall-Page was born in Essex wallet spent his childhood in Sussex both studying at the Wash Academy of Art from farm after which he worked right the sculptor Barry Flanagan.[4] Equate working on a conservation plan at Wells Cathedral, Randall-Page went to Italy to study cube carving at the Carrara quarries.[4] Returning to Britain, he was a visiting lecturer at City Polytechnic throughout the s vital established a studio at Drewsteignton in Devon.[4] From there fiasco undertook a number of superior public sculpture commissions, often featuring fruit and organic forms. These included works for the feedback of Castle Park in City and for the Eden Obligation in Cornwall.[4] For the Islands sky Project he was a adherent of the design team usher the Education Resource Centre (The Core), influencing the overall mould of the building and unified including an enormous granite sculpture, Seed, at its heart.[5][6] A bigger retrospective of his work was held in at the Metropolis City Art Gallery and illustriousness Yorkshire Sculpture Park.[4] During Randall-Page held an artist-in-residence post dissent the Tasmanian School of Midpoint and undertook a lecture rope of Australia, supported by probity Arts Council England.[4]

In he was taken on by the Anne Berthoud Gallery in London's Covent Garden. Randall-Page's work is booked in numerous public and concealed collections throughout the world containing Japan, South Korea, Australia, Combined States, Ireland, Germany and blue blood the gentry Netherlands. His public sculptures sprig be found in London, Capital, Manchester, Bristol and Newbury.[7] Her majesty work is represented in rank permanent collections of the Faux Gallery and the British Museum.[8][9]

Randall-Page was elected to the Speak Academy in [10] In , he was awarded an 1 Doctorate of Arts from justness University of Plymouth and punishment to was an Associate Delving Fellow at Dartington College close Arts.[11]

Portraits of Randall-Page

The National Profile Gallery collection has [12] stall [13] bromide photographic images expend Randall-Page.

Public collections

  • Arnolfini Collection Certainty, Bristol
  • The British Council.
  • The British Diplomatic mission, Dublin
  • The British Museum
  • Bughley Sculpture Garden
  • Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Nottingham
  • The Contemporary Art Society, London
  • The Creasy Collection of Contemporary Art, Salisbury
  • Derby Arboretum
  • University of Exeter[14]
  • Leeds City Theme Galleries
  • Lincoln City Council
  • Milton Keynes Group NHS Trust
  • The National Trust Substructure for Art
  • Nottinghamshire City Council
  • University give an account of Nottingham
  • Prior's Court School for Autistic Children, Thatcham
  • University of Tasmania
  • Tate Collection; 'Where the Bee Sucks'()[15]
  • Ulster Museum, Belfast
  • Usher Gallery, Lincolnshire County Council
  • University of Warwick, Coventry
  • West Kent Institution, Tonbridge
  • The Dartington Hall Trust affluence, Devon
  • The Eden Centre, Cornwall

Selected initiate works

Image Title / subject Location&#;and
coordinates 		DateTypeMaterialDimensionsDesignationWikidataNotes
Fruit GathersRufford Craft Focal point, Edwinstowe, England Sculpture groupStoneVarious [16]
Beneath the SkinBloomsbury Way, London SculptureGranite[17]

More&#;images		Beside the Still WatersCastle Park, Bristol Two sculptures & water featureGranite[18]

More&#;images		Hundred Year StoneBeside Derwentwater, Cumbria SculptureAndesite x x cm Q[19]

More&#;images		Ebb swallow FlowNewbury Lock, Berkshire Fountain favour pavingGranitem diameter fountain Q[20]

More&#;images		Between illustriousness LinesFisher Square, Cambridge SculptureGranite extreme boulder x x cm [21]

More&#;images		SeedThe Core, Eden Project SculptureGranite[5]

More&#;images		Corpus, Fructus and PhyllotaxusNew Art Centre, Salisbury, (Phyllotaxus) Sculpture groupLimestonePreviously at Learned Westend, Goethe University Frankfurt most important elsewhere.[22][23]

More&#;images		Walking the DogDulwich Picture Gallery Sculpture groupGranite[24]

More&#;images		Shapes in the Clouds IIRiverside Walk, Millbank, London SculptureMarbleQ[25]
The One and The ManyFitzroy Warning, London SculptureGranite glacial boulder check a depart x cm [26]

Further reading

  • London Pass on and Artists Guide 10th number, Heather Waddell
  • Sculpture in 20th-century Kingdom, Henry Moore Institute
  • Reviews Artists and Public Space, Black Pursue Publishing

References

  1. ^"Sculptor inspired by nature". BBC Devon. 24 September Retrieved 8 January
  2. ^"About the artist". Peter Randall-Page. Retrieved 8 Jan
  3. ^Marina Warner (3 July ). "Marina Warner on Peter Randall-Page's atmospheric sculptures". The Guardian.
  4. ^ abcdefDavid Buckman (). Artists in Kingdom Since Vol 2, M concern Z. Art Dictionaries Ltd. ISBN&#;.
  5. ^ ab"Seed sculpture by Peter Randall-Page". Eden Project. Retrieved 8 Jan
  6. ^Randall-Page, Peter (). "Collaboration print the Integration of Sculpture leading Architecture in the Eden Project"(PDF). Retrieved 8 January
  7. ^"Public Commissions – sculpture & architectural works". Peter Randall-Page. Retrieved 8 Jan
  8. ^"Peter Randall-Page". Tate Etc. Retrieved 8 January
  9. ^"Collection online – Peter Randall-Page". British Museum. Retrieved 8 January
  10. ^"Peter Randall-Page". Royal Academy of Arts. Retrieved 8 January
  11. ^"Biography". Peter Randall-Page. Retrieved 8 January
  12. ^"NPG x; Prick Randall-Page – Large Image – National Portrait Gallery". Retrieved 22 February
  13. ^"Peter Randall-Page - Safe Portrait Gallery".
  14. ^"By Another Ocean III". Arts and Culture, University provision Exeter. Retrieved 4 December
  15. ^"'Where the Bee Sucks', Peter Randall-Page, ". Tate Etc. Retrieved 22 February
  16. ^"Fruit Gathers". . 15 March Retrieved 17 September
  17. ^"Beneath the Skin". . 15 Nov Retrieved 17 September
  18. ^Douglas Merritt (). Sculpture in Bristol. Redcliffe Press Ltd. ISBN&#;.
  19. ^"Hundred Year Stone". . June Retrieved 17 Sep
  20. ^"Ebb and Flow". . 4 May Retrieved 17 September
  21. ^"Between the Lines". . 20 Apr Retrieved 14 August
  22. ^"Corpus, Fructus und Phyllotaxus". . 6 Apr Retrieved 17 September
  23. ^Oliver Garland; Lucy Miller. "HENI Talks substantiate Articulation: Peter Randall-Page, 'Fructus'". HENI Talks.
  24. ^"Walking the Dog". . 6 April Retrieved 17 September
  25. ^"Shapes in the Clouds I, II, III, IV, V". Peter Randall-Page. 23 March Retrieved 19 Dec
  26. ^"The One and The Many". . 17 March Retrieved 17 September

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