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Anthony Gormley ££££
Antony Gormley is widely acclaimed for his sculptures, installations and public artworks that investigate the relationship of the human body to space. His work has developed the potential opened up by sculpture since the 1960s through a critical engagement with both his own body and those of others in a way that confronts fundamental questions of where human beings stand in relation to nature and the cosmos. Gormley continually tries to identify the space of art as a place of becoming in which new behaviours, thoughts and feelings can arise.
Tony Cragg ££££
Tony Cragg is one of the world’s foremost sculptors. Constantly pushing to find new relations between people and the material world, there is no limit to the materials he might use, as there are no limits to the ideas or forms he might conceive. His early, stacked works present a taxonomical understanding of the world, and he has said that he sees manmade objects as “fossilized keys to a past time which is our present”. So too, the floor and wall arrangements of objects that he started making in the 1980s blur the line between manmade and natural landscapes: they create an outline of something familiar, where the contributing parts relate to the whole. Cragg understands sculpture as a study of how material and material forms affect and form our ideas and emotions.
Nigel Hall ££££
Nigel Hall studied at the West of England College of Art, Bristol from 1960 to 1964 and at the Royal College of Art, London from 1964 to 1967. A Harkness Fellowship took him to the United States from 1967 to 1969.
Hall has had many exhibitions around the world and has been widely collected. His first tubular aluminium sculpture was made in 1970. In subsequent years he explored the ways in which tubular construction alters the viewer’s perception of space. This interest in the qualities of spatial construction was balanced by an equally strong pre-occupation with the particular sites his sculptures occupy. His recent work has been less minimal in feel, tending towards stronger, more solid forms, and a solo exhibition of his work was held at the Royal Academy in 2011. In 2017, Hall was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of the Arts, London.
Annie Morris ££££
Annie Morris (b. 1978, London, United Kingdom) is a British artist who utilises tapestry, painting, and drawing in her work. Morris is best known for her ‘Stack’ sculptures, which comprise colorful, irregularly shaped orbs arranged one atop another in vertical strings. The artist’s ‘Stacks’ are made from plaster and cast bronze and are painted in vivid raw pigments such as ultramarine, viridian, and ochre. In this series, which was initiated during a period of grieving following a miscarriage, spheres appear to hover above the floor on plinths on which they rest, forever threatening to topple over—a nod to both the miracle of life and its precarity.
In addition to her ‘Stack’ series, Morris explores the feminine body in her drawing-like tapestries and linear figural sculptures, as well as in abstract paintings like her voluptuously gestural, allover ‘Face’ series. These works signal the myriad ways of inhabiting the female body.
Morris studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris between 1997 and 2001 under Giuseppe Penone before completing her education at the Slade School of Fine Art in London in 2003. 2021 marked the artist’s first museum exhibition, with a solo presentation of sculptures and tapestries at Yorkshire Sculpture Park’s Weston Gallery. In 2023, she was commissioned by the Hepford Wakefield to create a permanent installation for the West Yorkshire History Centre. Her first museum survey in China, Hope from a Thin Line at the Fosun Foundation in Shanghai, brought together sculptures, tapestries, and paintings from 2012 to the present day in 2024.
Lynn Chadwick ££££
Lynn Chadwick came to sculpture through unconventional means, initially working as an architectural draughtsman. He began his sculptural career making mobile constructions for building trade fairs and it was the resulting success of these early mobiles and stabiles, two of which were shown on the South Bank during the Festival of Britain in 1951, that first allowed him to seriously consider becoming a freelance sculptor.
Chadwick’s unique approach was based on construction rather than modelling. First, he welded a linear armature or skeleton onto which he applied a skin, building up the surface to a solid form. By beginning with an abstract form or ‘space frame’ and investing it with an allusive vitality, Chadwick’s working process is the reverse of most traditional approaches. The results are equally as original and each work has a carefully considered ‘attitude’ communicated through stance, texture and finish.
Dylan Lewis £££
Dylan Lewis is Africa’s most internationally renowned living figurative sculptor. Collectively Lewis’ bronzes of felines form perhaps the most powerful commentary on nature and wilderness that has been made by any artist of this era. His cats are far more profound works of art than mere contemporary Animalia bronzes. Indeed, they fully interrogate the lithe, almost boneless, grace of these apex predators – creatures that impart by their very presence a palpable tension to any true wilderness.
William Peers £/££
William Peers was born in 1965 and studied at Falmouth Art College after which he was apprenticed to a stone-carver, Michael Black, from 1989-1991.
His earliest carvings were figurative and followed that long history of English stone carving brought to prominence in the 20th Century by Henry Moore and Eric Gill. Gradually Peers’s work became more and more abstract.
Many of his carvings hang on the wall, rather than being free-standing. This lends a greater emphasis to the surface of the stone and to the delicate chisel-work than to the overall shape. Many of the sculptures are hand-carved, their surface accentuated by the tiny rhythmic patterns of the chisel and the occasional holes and slender rivulets that puncture the stone.
Peers’s carvings have as much affinity with painting as sculpture. The work lies somewhere between the two, with as much in common with abstract painters, Paul Klee and Barnet Newman as with Moore and Gill. Peers lives and works in North Cornwall.
Tom Stogdon ££
Tom Stogdon is an artist born in 1964 into a fourth generation of greengrocers in Bloomsbury. He withdrew from the fruit trade in 1998 and has never looked back. ‘I often wonder how life would have been if I had gone on to art school instead of the market but always arrive back at the same conclusion… who really knows. What I do know is that I feel very lucky to be doing what I love every day.’
Over the years he has worked with a number of inspiring and talented people some of whom are good friends today. He works in stone, wood, metals and paper and takes his inspiration from many different avenues. The building process either starts by adding something to an object or taking part of it away and is serendipitous, with one piece of work informing the next. Sometimes it is a journey of several years before he returns back to the original kernel of an idea.
Tom was elected as a member to the Royal Sculpture Society in 2012 and is married to Rebecca. They have two fantastic young boys of 6 & 8 who keep them both busy and very entertained, so not so different to everyone else really. His studios are now very rural and just outside Oxford, but London will always be part of him and therefore, to some degree or other, in his work.
Paul Vanstone £/££
Paul Vanstone studied sculpture at Central St Martin’s School of Art before completing a MFA in sculpture at the Royal College of Art, from which he graduated in 1993. Following his graduation Vanstone worked in Italy at the traditional marble carving studios near the famous Carrera quarries. He also spent time working in Berlin and travelled to Rajasthan to learn India’s traditional marble carving techniques. On his return to the UK, and for the next five years, Vanstone became an assistant to leading British Sculptor, Anish Kapoor. Works carved by Vanstone, on behalf of Kapoor, have been exhibited at world leading galleries, including Tate Modern.
Louise Plant £/££
Fascinated by movement, Louise Plant creates sculpture which explores light, form and space. In her most recent work, The Nudibranx series, Louise takes inspiration from natural forms created underwater, capturing the undulating movement of organic matter. Additionally, in developing the Parkour series, Louise has begun to make this strong urban inspired work in marble, highlighting the material’s capacity to infuse light drawn from a dense city skyline.
Louise studied sculpture with the Open College of Arts in 1992 and later at Doncaster Art College. Her studies continued at Wysing Arts, Cambridge, at Global Stone Workshops, Carrara, at Fondazione Sem, Pietrasanta and as a mentee of Helaine Blumenfeld, OBE.
Commissioners include the RNIB, MOD, Waldorf Astoria, and Durham County Council. Her work is sited in England, Scotland, India, Thailand and Italy and is held in private collections throughout the world.
Guy Du Toit £/££
Guy du Toit graduated from the University of Pretoria with a BA (Fine Art) Degree, receiving a distinction in sculpture. He uses a wide range of media in his sculptures, including bronze, stone, wood and steel, and draws in pen, ink and charcoal. He has exhibited extensively, both locally and internationally, and has been consistently supported by private and public collectors, institutions, academics and fellow artists.
Honoured with several awards, he curates and adjudicates exhibitions and lectures at several institutions, including Pelmama Academy in Soweto, Pretoria University, Johannesburg and Pretoria Technikon, and the Johannesburg School of Art, Ballet, Drama and Music. He gives workshops throughout South Africa and has been involved in community projects, seminars and symposia.
Deborah Bell ££
Deborah Bell is one of South Africa’s most celebrated contemporary artists. She works in a range of media on canvas and paper, produces dry point etchings and large-scale bronzes. Her earlier more political work has given way to a broader, deeper investigation into the border between mortality and immortality, matter and spirit, presence and absence, the quotidian and the mythic, the grounded and transcendent. In recent years she has developed an immediately recognisable visual language, her images simple, stark, symbolic – grounded, silent, still, poised. As fellow artist, Ricky Burnett observed; at the very edge of time.
In her iconography she draws from a range of cultures (including African, Chinese, Egyptian, Greek, early Christian and European) and a range of philosophies (especially the Buddhist preoccupation with stillness and the shedding of attachment and the ego) and psychologies (more Jung than Freud) – but her work digs deeper, arriving finally out of an internal and personal place that Bell occupies in the world as an artist, a woman and an explorer. A central task is to make the unknown present – apprehended in a series of powerful images that are both of her and beyond her.
Rob Good ££
Rob holds a first class BA (hons) degree in Sculpture from the University of Leeds, and a MA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Arts.
He was a finalist in the 2018 National Sculpture Prize, and was the last recipient of the Brian Mercer Award for Stone Carving, awarded by the Royal Society of Sculptors.
Last seen in Tuscany, in a cloud of dust.
Lucy Unwin ££
Lucy grew up on an arable farm in rural Essex which stimulated her interest in nature and wildlife from an early age, with hours spent in the garden and woodlands with her older brother looking for birds nests and capturing newts, these were perhaps the foundations of an ongoing passion for the natural world and countryside. Regular visits to the Devon, Cornish and Norfolk coasts further extended this interest to the marine environment, and a collection of fossils and shells ensued.
In 2010 Lucy moved to the Cotswolds and was lucky enough to find a beautiful open-fronted barn situated in a picturesque valley where she set up studio once again and is still working there today.
Lucy’s early work depicted realistic seashells and human torsos and more recently ammonite fossils. It is only in recent years that Lucy has fully started to recognize the influences that her early life has had on her work.
Her latest designs see the amalgamation of the aforementioned subject matters, incorporating the subtle curves and lines of the human body amongst the twisting forms of an eroded shell. Often plant like in their structure these organic shapes represent for Lucy the ever present influences of our natural environment on the human body, be it both physical and emotional.
Ben Russell ££
Ben Russell originally trained in stone conservation and then as an architectural stone carver and worked throughout London on a variety of prestigious projects before returning to West Dorset to set up his studio and get back to his roots. Now focusing solely upon his own work, his pieces can be found in private collections throughout the UK along with Hong Kong, Canada and Europe.
Ben’s practice is fuelled by the wondrous world of fungi, plants and the wood wide web that connects them beneath our feet. Drawing inspiration from his experiences with the grown world as a child he seeks to bring these unsung heroes to light as seen in his mind’s eye. This year, Ben’s work was all made specially for on form and delves deeper into the enticing forms of the magic mushroom.
Dominic Welch £££/££
Ben Russell originally trained in stone conservation and then as an architectural stone carver and worked throughout London on a variety of prestigious projects before returning to West Dorset to set up his studio and get back to his roots. Now focusing solely upon his own work, his pieces can be found in private collections throughout the UK along with Hong Kong, Canada and Europe.
Ben’s practice is fuelled by the wondrous world of fungi, plants and the wood wide web that connects them beneath our feet. Drawing inspiration from his experiences with the grown world as a child he seeks to bring these unsung heroes to light as seen in his mind’s eye. This year, Ben’s work was all made specially for on form and delves deeper into the enticing forms of the magic mushroom.
Erika Anfinsen ££
Erika Anfinsen uses stone to create playful and energetic silhouettes. Using minimalistic designs, she introduces a remarkable lightness to her carvings. In pieces such as her sofa and pillows, the stone appears to be soft and textured, giving the impression of delicate pieces of furniture. Here, the perfectly finished surfaces capture the folds and creases that would be found within the fabric; indentations perhaps left from the last sitter. She masters the stone, creating works that can be relished, used and enjoyed rather than just viewed. By effectively capturing the beauty of the everyday, Erika reimagines space by bringing the inside outside.
Erika was born in Germany but now resides in Bergen. She divides her work between Bergen and Pietrasanta, where she sculpts in marble. She has been carving marble for 11 years, and has had numerous exhibitions at home and internationally, with several exhibitions this year in Norway and Pietrasanta. She has also made major artistic contributions to public spaces, including those in Germany, Italy, Austria and Norway.
