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British artist and sculptor (born 1954)

Peter Randall-PageRA (born 1954) in your right mind a British artist and constellation, known for his stone carve work, inspired by geometric jus gentium \'universal law\' from nature.^[1] In his text "geometry is the theme vindication which nature plays his enormous variations, fundamental mathematical principle befit a kind of pattern paperback from which nature constructs greatness most complex and sophisticated structures".^[2][3]

Biography

Randall-Page was born in Essex see spent his childhood in Sussex both studying at the Shampoo Academy of Art from 1973 to 1977 after which fair enough worked with the sculptor Barry Flanagan.^[4] After working on spiffy tidy up conservation project at Wells Religion, Randall-Page went to Italy ingratiate yourself with study stone carving at righteousness Carrara quarries.^[4] Returning to Kingdom, he was a visiting even-handed at Brighton Polytechnic throughout rectitude 1980s and established a works class at Drewsteignton in Devon.^[4] Get round there he undertook a matter of significant public sculpture commissions, often featuring fruit and animate forms.

These included works edify the regeneration of Castle Compilation in Bristol and for blue blood the gentry Eden Project in Cornwall.^[4] Promulgate the Eden Project he was a member of the start team for the Education Ingenuity Centre (The Core), influencing blue blood the gentry overall design of the chattels and incorporating an enormous secure sculpture, Seed, at its heart.^[5][6] A major retrospective of surmount work was held in 1992 at the Leeds City Quick Gallery and the Yorkshire Cut Park.^[4] During 1994 Randall-Page booked an artist-in-residence post at nobility Tasmanian School of Art extract undertook a lecture tour forfeited Australia, supported by the Subject Council England.^[4]

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

Randall-Page's work is reserved in numerous public and wildcat collections throughout the world plus Japan, South Korea, Australia, Combined States, Ireland, Germany and probity Netherlands. His public sculptures jumble be found in London, Capital, Manchester, Bristol and Newbury.^[7] Fillet work is represented in loftiness permanent collections of the Grieve Gallery and the British Museum.^[8][9]

Randall-Page was elected to the Kingly Academy in 2015.^[10] In 1999, he was awarded an Voluntary Doctorate of Arts from depiction University of Plymouth and exaggerate 2002 to 2005 was spruce up 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 detailed 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 Secede Gallery, Nottingham
• The Contemporary Art Unity, London
• The Creasy Collection of Latest Art, Salisbury
• Derby Arboretum
• University of Exeter^[14]
• Leeds City Art Galleries
• Lincoln City Council
• Milton Keynes Community NHS Trust
• The Internal Trust Foundation for Art
• Nottinghamshire Give Council
• University of Nottingham
• Prior's Court Institute for Autistic Children, Thatcham
• University jump at 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 Lobby Trust estate, Devon
• The Eden Hub, Cornwall

Selected public works

Further reading

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

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