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Phillip King, Download Stretch Float Maquette, 2013. Image courtesy the artist and Thomas Dane Gallery. Photo: Luke A Walker

DUOLOGUE, 24 Sept to 2 Dec 2018

A live collaboration between Phillip King CBE and Alexandre da Cunha

Phillip King CBE and Alexandre da Cunha, two of the leading sculptors working in the UK today, are coming together for a unique ‘live collaboration’ at the Royal Society of Sculptors , offering us a rare opportunity to glimpse into the artist’s studio and discover their working practises.

In Memoriam III, outside Royal Society of Sculptors

Faces of Sculpture

Portrait of a Profession, An Exhibition of Photographs by Anne Purkiss

14 May – 14 July 2018 “I see photographs as documents of people, recorded in the context of their environment and their time. The interpretation of my subjects, or my part of being creative, lies in selecting the context, the environment and the moment in time.” Faces of Sculpture is an exhibition...

The Coffin Jump by Katrina Palmer

Article: The Coffin Jump by Katrina Palmer

Helen Pheby, Senior Curator Yorkshire Sculpture Park discusses the park’s new 14-18 NOW installation

Helen Pheby, Senior Curator Yorkshire Sculpture Park

The Coffin Jump by Katrina Palmer at Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP) is inspired by the role of women in the First World War, particularly the all-female First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (Princess Royal’s Volunteer Corps). The artwork features a horse jump with texts written in response to the nurses’...

Royal Academy Schools

New award for young sculptors launched

Residency at Milwyn for Royal Academy Schools graduate

Charlie Fegan is the first ever winner of an exciting new award providing aspiring young sculptors the opportunity to pursue their artistic ambitions. The Royal Society of Sculptors Bronze Award offers a student graduating from the Royal Academy Schools a 3 to 6 month residency at Milwyn Casting, a...

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Big Draw winners!

Museum & Galleries Award

The Royal Society of Sculptors is absolutely delighted to announce that we have won the international Big Draw Festival Museum & Galleries Award 2017/18.

Out Of Body

Out Of Body

Exploring the differences between animate and inanimate

I am fascinated by the interconnectedness of the human and non-human as a means of exploring our relationship with impermanence.

Grizedale Forest Sculpture

Inspired by Nature

In collaboration with Grizedale Forest

Part of Grizedale Forest’s 50th Anniversary of Arts and Culture in the forest. 

Isaac Witkin

From the archive: Isaac Witkin (1936 - 2006)

Internationally renowned sculptor, Society member & Henry Moore's assistant

Nadine Witkin, talks about her late father

William Pye in Film

William Pye in Film

A new exhibition recording the life and career of the artist since the 1960s.

Rupert Norfolk  Playground

FIRST@108 Public Art Award

Sculpture Terrace

As winner of the First@108 Public Art Award, Norfolk has been given the opportunity to create his first-large scale piece of art.  

Jo Taylor MRSS

Jo Taylor MRSS

A new collaboration with J Sheekey Atlantic Bar

Society member wins competition to show at Covent Garden restaurant

James Turrell Skyscape

Looking to the sky

With Turrell's Skyscape

“Scientific perspective is nothing but eye-fooling illusionism; it is simply a trick - a bad trick - which makes it impossible for an artist to convey a full experience of space” (Braque) How many times have you looked into a rectangle today, and how many times have you looked through that frame...

El Peine de los Vientos

Encountering El Peine de los Vientos

by Eduardo Chillida in San Sebastian

Leaving the Mirakontxa Pasealekus, I enter the promenade and walk in a westerly direction, the promenade narrows and in the distance I see El Peine de los Vientos; suddenly rock outcrops obscure the view and instead, deep visceral sounds are felt and heard. Continuing, the promenade leads to a...

Support for a cloud by Mhairi Vari

Exploring Sculpture in the City 2017

Powerful interactions with place

In the densely-built labyrinth of the City of London, where I work, the Sculpture in the City exhibition each year causes at least a few bustling office workers (including me) to focus on a sculpture and its place in the environment. The best of this year’s works interact powerfully with their...