Peter Randall-Page
Peter Randall-Page (* 1954 in Essex , Great Britain ) is a British sculptor, draftsman and graphic artist.
life and work
Randall-Page studied from 1973 to 1977 at the Bath Academy of Art in Bath . After completing his studies, he went to London and worked for a year in the studio of the sculptor Barry Flanagan . In 1980 he was awarded a Winston Churchill Memorial Traveling Fellowship , which gave him the opportunity to study marble working in Italy .
In 1987 he moved to the city of Devon , where he lives and works constantly as a stone sculptor.
In 1999, the University awarded him of Plymouth , the honorary doctorate for his contribution to the arts.
His work was inspired by the study of organic forms and subjective emotional outbursts, which were reflected in his sculptures. In his words: "Geometry is the theme on which nature plays her infinite variations, fundamental mathematical principle become a kind of pattern book from which nature constructs the most complex and sophisticated structures." (Geometry is the theme with which nature in different variations plays, fundamental mathematical principles become a kind of pattern that nature constructs in the most complex and advanced structures.)
Work (selection)
- 1988: cone and cone , Sculpture Trail , Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail in Gloucestershire
- 1994: Beside the Still Waters , Castle Park in Bristol
- 1995: Centennial Stone , Calfclose Bay at Keswick in ( Cumbria )
- 1996: Body and Soul , Hunter Square, Edinburgh
- 2000: Spring stones , sculpture symposium Oggelshausen in Oggelshausen (Germany)
- 2000: Inner compulsion , Millennium Seed Bank in Wakehurst ( Sussex )
- 2003: Ebb and Flow , Newbury Lock in Newbury
- 2005: Jacobs Pillow , Darlington Hall in Devon
- 2006: Mind's Eye (ceramic), Cardiff University in Cardiff
- 2006: Give and Take , Newcastle upon Tyne
- 2006: Mohegan Memorial ( Mohegan chief of the Mohegan tribe in Connecticut ), Southwark Cathedral in Southwark
- 2007: Saat , Eden Project in Cornwall
- 2007: Between the Lines , Fisher's Square in Cambridge on the Cambridge Sculpture Trail 2
- 2008: Green Fury , Jerwood Sculpture Trail , Ragley Hall in Alcester, Warwickshire
Beside the Still Waters , Bristol
Under the skin , BUPA House, London
Sculpture in Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Inner compulsion , Wakehurst Place
Spring stones , Oggelshausen
Detail: spring stones
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Catalogs
- Peter Randall-Page. Sculpture and drawings 1977-1992. [Catalog Raisonne compiled by Clive Adams. Essays by James Hamilton, Marina Warner .] Leeds, The Henry Moore Center / Leeds City Art Center, 1992.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Website of Peter Randall-Page . Retrieved July 29, 2010 (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Randall-Page, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British sculptor, draftsman and graphic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Essex , UK |