David Watkins is a British artist who has designed the medals for the London 2012 Olympics. [1] Watkins was also a special effects maker for the film 2001: A Space Odyssey . [2]
David Watkins is a British artist who has designed the medals for the London 2012 Olympics. [1] Watkins was also a special effects maker for the film 2001: A Space Odyssey . [2]
Watkins was born in Wolverhampton in 1940 and he is a graduate of the University of Reading (1963 Fine Arts) where he met his lifelong partner Wendy Ramshaw. [3]
Ramshaw is a Royal Designer for Industry and he has produced work for the Metropolitan Museum in New York and the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo. [4]
National Life Stories conducted an oral history interview (C960/74) with Watkins in 2006 for its Crafts Lives collection held by the British Library. [5] In 2009 Graham Hughes wrote a joint biography of Watkins and his wife and fellow designer Wendy Ramshaw. [6]
In 2010 a retrospective exhibition of his work was held at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, titled Artist in Jewellery, a Retrospective View (1972–2010). [7]
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