Sean Henry (artist)
Sean Henry (* 1965 in Woking , Surrey , England ) is a British artist best known for his painted ceramic or bronze sculptures , which are often larger than life.
Walking Woman, Bad Homburg , 2013
Life
Henry grew up in Surrey and studied at Farnham Art School until 1983 . He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in ceramics from Bristol Polytechnic , now the University of the West of England, in 1987 . From 1991 to 1992 he was an art fellow at the University of California .
Works
- 1991: Hard to Swallow , Arizona State University Museum.
- 1998: Walking Man , Holland Park , Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea , London.
- 1999: Duke of Milan , Scheringa Museum of Realist Art , Spanbroek, North Holland, Netherlands.
- 2001: Trajan's Shadow , Umedalen Sculpture Park , Umeå , Sweden.
- 2001: Ben (Ideas Unresolved) , bronze, oil paint, 49 × 19 × 16 inches; University of Virginia Art Museum , since 2012 Fralin Museum of Art , Charlottesville , Virginia , USA. Acquired in 2002.
- 2003: Catafalque , Borås College , Borås , Sweden.
- 2003: Meeting Place , Paddington Central Development , London.
- 2003: Man with Potential Selves , Newcastle City Collection, Newcastle upon Tyne , Northumberland , England.
- 2007: Couple , Newbiggin-by-the-Sea , Northumberland, England.
- 2007–2011: Folly (The Other Self) , Cass Sculpture Foundation, Goodwood, Sussex , England.
- 2008: Man Looking Up , 86 × 28 × 20 cm, 6 copies and 2 artist's copies, Standard Chartered Bank Headquarters , London, England.
- 2008: Walking Woman , Christian Ringes-Ekeborg Sculpture Park , Oslo, Norway.
- 2013: Walking Woman , Blickachsen exhibition , Bad Homburg spa gardens in front of the height . Planned purchase by the city and acquired for T € 120. Since April 7, 2016 it has been on the station forecourt.
- 2009: Standing Man , Stockholm City Collection, Sweden.
- 20011/2003: Lying Man . Frederick Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park , Michigan, USA.
- 2011: Seated Man / The Indifferent Sky , bronze, oil paint, 237 × 120 × 149 cm, Economist Plaza, London.
- 2013: The Wanderer , bronze, oil paint, Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Blickachsen 9.
- 2015: Standing Man , bronze, oil paint, Hessenpark , Neu-Anspach , Blickachsen 10, then: in front of the Südbahnhof in Eschborn .
Prizes and awards
- 1998: Villiers David Prize as the first sculptor.
literature
- Tom Flynn: Sean Henry. Scala Publishers, London 2008, ISBN 978-1-85759-541-3 .
- Conflux: A Union of the Sacred and the Anonymous. Scala Publishers, London 2011, ISBN 978-1-85759-747-9 .
Web links
Commons : Sean Henry - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files
- Website of the artist (en.)
Individual evidence
- ↑ U- turn with purchase price restriction. In: FAZ . November 30, 2013, p. 59.
- ↑ Fabian Böker: "Walking Woman" shows the way . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . April 7, 2016 ( [1] [accessed February 25, 2017]).
- ↑ Anke Hillebrecht: Blickachsen: "Walking Woman" flies in . In: Taunus Zeitung . April 8, 2016 ( [2] [accessed February 25, 2017]).
- ↑ Larger than life at the Südbahnhof in FAZ from November 16, 2015
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Henry, Sean |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Woking , Surrey , England |