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Rose Gywnneth Holt

From the archive: Pioneering Women

Our new archive research project

My name is Rosamund and I am the new Research Curator here at the Society working on the ‘Pioneering Women’ research project, funded by the Paul Mellon Centre. Each month in our Shape & Form enewsletter, I would like to share with you something from the archive, and introduce you to some of the

Stephen Broadbent running a Masterpieces in Schools activity at a primary school in Chester. Photo credit: Art UK.

Article: Royal Society of sculptors partners with Art UK

Katey Goodwin, Deputy Director of Art UK announces it's new UK-wide sculpture project

Art UK has started adding sculpture to their website as part of a unique UK-wide cataloguing project. The first thousand sculptures are now available online, free of charge, to people in the UK and all over the globe via www.artuk.org An estimated 150,000 more will follow by the end of 2020. These

Masterpieces in schools project

Art UK Sculpture Project

Major UK sculpture project launches online

Today (22 February 2019) sees the launch of Art UK’s unique sculpture project. The first thousand sculptures are now available online, free of charge, to people in the UK and all over the globe via www.artuk.org. An estimated 150,000 more will follow by the end of 2020. These first images, and their

Alice Meredith Williams

From the archive: Alice Meredith Williams ARBS

Phyllida Shaw unveils the life and work of a little known sculptor

‘Small of stature and delicate in appearance, with visionary eyes, she acquired amid the rigours of her student life a power of endurance which supported her in the heaviest work, and no obstacles deterred her undaunted spirit from carrying out an idea.’ This description of Gertrude Alice Meredith

Grizedale Forest

Article: In partnership with Grizedale Forest

Hazel Stone reflects on the forestry Commission's centenary and recent collaborations with the Royal Society of Sculptors

Entering a new year is often a time of reflection as well as a time of optimistically looking to the future and this is particularly so for the Forestry Commission as it celebrates it’s centenary in 2019. Originally set up following the First World War to restore the nation’s woods and forests and

Elisabeth Frink by Anne Purkiss

Elisabeth Frink in film

A film made in conjunction with the exhibition Elisabeth Frink: A Collector's Passion

Modern British artist Elisabeth Frink spent much of her career living and working in her beautiful country home in Dorset, Woolland House. This film looks at how this environment inspired her explorations of nature and humanity, through sculptures and prints that are both aggressive and vulnerable.

Anne Acheson putting her finishing touches to a sculpture called October in the 1920s

From the Archive: Anne Acheson CBE FRBS

The legacy of a sculptor whose achievements in WW1 still perpetuate

Anne Acheson (1882-1962) was a sculptor, born in Portadown, Co. Armagh. She studied architecture at the Royal College of Art, Kensington from 1906-1910. Subsequently her bespoke sculptures became popular in many houses and gardens. Her work was exhibited at the Royal Academy and she became the first

Holly Rowan Hesson

Conversation in Colour 6 - 27 Oct 2018

Paul Huxley RA and Holly Rowan Hesson

The Line collaborates with the Royal Society of Sculptors to launch Conversation In Colour. London City Island, the new creative and cultural neighbourhood on Leamouth Peninsula, will host a brand new exhibition for Frieze London. Curated by the Royal Society of Sculptors, the exhibition will

The Intermediary Family by Bharti Kher

Article: The Intermediary Family by Bharti Kher

Dea Vanagan, Hauser & Wirth Director, reflects on Kher's new artwork for Frieze Sculpture 2018

In July, Frieze Sculpture returned to the English Gardens of Regent’s Park in London for its seventh edition. Curated by Clare Lilley, Director of Programme at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, 25 artists were selected through an open call by international galleries. With a mixture of existing and newly

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

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’

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.

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

Big Draw image

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.

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

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