Thom Puckey
Thom Puckey (born May 23, 1948 in Bexleyheath ) is an English- Dutch performance artist and sculptor .
life and work
Thom Puckey was born in 1948 as Thom as William Puckey in the greater London area, where he did a bachelor's degree at the Slade School of Fine Art and then a master's degree at the Royal College of Art .
From 1972 to 1982 Thom Puckey formed the performance duo Reindeer Werk / Rentier Arbeit together with Dirk Larsen .
In 1978 Puckey moved to Amsterdam to live and work. He was a university professor from 1984 to 1987 at the Academie Minerva in Groningen , from 1985 to 1989 at the AKI (Academy for Art and Industry) in Enschede , from 1987 to 1995 at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam and from 1997 at the Akademie voor Kunst en Vormgeving St. Joost in 's-Hertogenbosch .
Numerous works by Puckey have been realized as art in public spaces in various cities in the Netherlands.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ kunstbus Thom Puckey (1948) accessed on December 27, 2014 (Dutch)
- ↑ Catalog for documenta 6: Volume 1: Painting, sculpture and performance; Kassel, page 310, 1977 ISBN 3-920453-00-X
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Puckey, Thom |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Puckey, Thomas William |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English-Dutch performance artist and sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 23, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London Borough of Bexley |