This exhibition will be a celebration of the artist, his work and working methods and the things that inspire him Works will include sculpture made from stone, marble and bronze as well as works on paper and maquettes. This will be an exhibition that lives within the gallery playing with the ideas surrounding Randall' work including the patterns and chaos within nature.

Biography

Peter Randall-Page was born in the UK in 1954 and studied sculpture at Bath Academy of Art from 1973–77.

During the past 30 years he has gained an international reputation through his sculpture, drawings and prints. He has undertaken numerous large scale commissions and exhibited widely. His work is held in public and private collections throughout the world including Australia, Eire, Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, USA, Spain, South Korea and Turkey. A selection of his public sculptures can be found in many urban and rural locations throughout the UK including London, Edinburgh, Manchester, Bristol, Oxford and Cambridge and he is represented in the permanent collections of the Tate Gallery, Victoria & Albert Museum and the British Museum.

He has been awarded an Hon D.Litt Bath Spa University (2013), Hon D.Litt Exeter University (2010), Hon D.Litt York St John University (2009) Hon D.Arts University of Plymouth (1999) and was elected as a Royal Academician in the category of sculpture in June 2015.

As a member of the design team for the Education Resource Centre (The Core) at the Eden Project in Cornwall, Peter influenced the overall design of the building incorporating an enormous granite sculpture (Seed, pictured) at its heart.

Recent commissions include Harmonic Solids for the University of Music, Karlsruhe (2013) Source at Southmead Hospital Bristol (2013), Theme and Variation commissioned by the University of Birmingham for the façade of the Bramhall Music Building (2014) façades at the new Laboratory building at Dulwich College designed in collaboration with Grimshaw architects (2015) and a major new work The One and the Many at Fitzroy Place, London.

Image Credit: Jonty Wilde