Biography of peter randall page

British artist and sculptor (born )

Peter Randall-PageRA (born ) esteem a British artist and artist, known for his stone statuette work, inspired by geometric jus naturale \'natural law\' from nature.^[1] In his knock up "geometry is the theme pomposity which nature plays his unrestricted variations, fundamental mathematical principle correspond a kind of pattern make a reservation from which nature constructs high-mindedness most complex and sophisticated structures".^[2][3]

Biography

Randall-Page was born in Essex esoteric spent his childhood in Sussex both studying at the Set free Academy of Art from get stuck after which he worked do better than the sculptor Barry Flanagan.^[4] Care for working on a conservation endeavour at Wells Cathedral, Randall-Page went to Italy to study friend carving at the Carrara quarries.^[4] Returning to Britain, he was a visiting lecturer at City Polytechnic throughout the s bear established a studio at Drewsteignton in Devon.^[4] From there type undertook a number of vital public sculpture commissions, often featuring fruit and organic forms. These included works for the re-formation of Castle Park in City and for the Eden Post in Cornwall.^[4] For the Valhalla Project he was a shareholder of the design team take the Education Resource Centre (The Core), influencing the overall pattern of the building and embracing an enormous granite sculpture, Seed, at its heart.^[5][6] A larger retrospective of his work was held in at the City City Art Gallery and grandeur Yorkshire Sculpture Park.^[4] During Randall-Page held an artist-in-residence post follow the Tasmanian School of Atypical and undertook a lecture voyage of Australia, supported by say publicly Arts Council England.^[4]

In he was taken on by the Anne Berthoud Gallery in London's Covent Garden. Randall-Page's work is retained in numerous public and hidden collections throughout the world plus Japan, South Korea, Australia, Leagued States, Ireland, Germany and illustriousness Netherlands. His public sculptures stem be found in London, Capital, Manchester, Bristol and Newbury.^[7] Fulfil work is represented in honourableness permanent collections of the Ape Gallery and the British Museum.^[8][9]

Randall-Page was elected to the Imperial Academy in ^[10] In , he was awarded an Voluntary Doctorate of Arts from leadership University of Plymouth and diverge to was an Associate Proof Fellow at Dartington College donation Arts.^[11]

Portraits of Randall-Page

The National Picture Gallery collection has ^[12] other ^[13] bromide photographic images blame Randall-Page.

Public collections

• Arnolfini Collection Bank holiday, Bristol
• The British Council.
• The British Ministry, 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 Vivacious Galleries
• Lincoln City Council
• Milton Keynes Agreement NHS Trust
• The National Trust Scaffold for Art
• Nottinghamshire City Council
• University sell 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 School, Tonbridge
• The Dartington Hall Trust big bucks, Devon
• The Eden Centre, Cornwall

Selected get around works

Further reading

• London Lively and Artists Guide 10th rampage, Heather Waddell
• Sculpture in 20th-century Kingdom, Henry Moore Institute
• Reviews Artists and Public Space, Black Accompany Publishing

References

External links