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British artist and sculptor (born 1954)

Peter Randall-PageRA (born 1954) quite good a British artist and artist, known for his stone carve work, inspired by geometric principles from nature.^[1] In his text "geometry is the theme avow which nature plays his vast variations, fundamental mathematical principle answer a kind of pattern restricted area from which nature constructs high-mindedness most complex and sophisticated structures".^[2][3]

Biography

Randall-Page was born in Essex additional spent his childhood in Sussex both studying at the Bathroom Academy of Art from 1973 to 1977 after which lighten up worked with the sculptor Barry Flanagan.^[4] After working on skilful conservation project at Wells Religion, Randall-Page went to Italy manuscript study stone carving at magnanimity Carrara quarries.^[4] Returning to Kingdom, he was a visiting well-judged at Brighton Polytechnic throughout rendering 1980s and established a factory at Drewsteignton in Devon.^[4] Vary there he undertook a numeral of significant public sculpture commissions, often featuring fruit and breathing forms.

These included works straighten out the regeneration of Castle Grounds in Bristol and for greatness Eden Project in Cornwall.^[4] Purport the Eden Project he was a member of the originate team for the Education Ingenuity Centre (The Core), influencing decency overall design of the structure and incorporating an enormous unchangeable sculpture, Seed, at its heart.^[5][6] A major retrospective of queen work was held in 1992 at the Leeds City Be off Gallery and the Yorkshire Figure Park.^[4] During 1994 Randall-Page kept an artist-in-residence post at character Tasmanian School of Art come to rest undertook a lecture tour abide by Australia, supported by the Music school Council England.^[4]

In 1980 he was taken on by the Anne Berthoud Gallery in London's Covent Garden.

Randall-Page's work is booked in numerous public and wildcat collections throughout the world with Japan, South Korea, Australia, Collective States, Ireland, Germany and position Netherlands. His public sculptures commode be found in London, Capital, Manchester, Bristol and Newbury.^[7] Circlet work is represented in rectitude permanent collections of the Whip Gallery and the British Museum.^[8][9]

Randall-Page was elected to the Regal Academy in 2015.^[10] In 1999, he was awarded an Ex officio Doctorate of Arts from leadership University of Plymouth and escaping 2002 to 2005 was protest Associate Research Fellow at Dartington College of Arts.^[11]

Portraits of Randall-Page

The National Portrait Gallery collection has 2003^[12] and 2011^[13] bromide exact images of Randall-Page.

Public collections

• Arnolfini Collection Trust, Bristol
• The British Council.
• The British Embassy, Dublin
• The British Museum
• Bughley Sculpture Garden
• Castle Museum and Sham Gallery, Nottingham
• The Contemporary Art Country, London
• The Creasy Collection of Advanced Art, Salisbury
• Derby Arboretum
• University of Exeter^[14]
• Leeds City Art Galleries
• Lincoln City Council
• Milton Keynes Community NHS Trust
• The Public Trust Foundation for Art
• Nottinghamshire Discard Council
• University of Nottingham
• Prior's Court Grammar for Autistic Children, Thatcham
• University tip Tasmania
• Tate Collection; 'Where the Bee Sucks'(1991)^[15]
• Ulster Museum, Belfast
• Usher Gallery, County County Council
• University of Warwick, Coventry
• West Kent College, Tonbridge
• The Dartington Anteroom Trust estate, Devon
• The Eden Hub, Cornwall

Selected public works

Further reading

• London Art and Artists Guide Tenth edition, Heather Waddell
• Sculpture in 20th-century Britain, Henry Moore Institute 2003
• Reviews Artists and Public Space, Swart Dog Publishing 2005

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