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Guy Portelli (born 13 June 1957) is a contemporary English sculptor.
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Guy Portelli (born 13 June 1957) is a contemporary English sculptor.
He was born in South Africa in 1957, but moved permanently to England with his parents in 1969, who had each come earlier to Britain to study as art students. He lived largely with his grandfather in Southend, London during the initial move. The family moved to Tonbridge in the early 1970s, where he still lives.
He studied at the Hugh Christie School in Tonbridge. He left school at 16 to study at Medway College of Art. Originally studying interior design, this changed to a focus on sculpture in his second year. Whilst at college he started his own business, designing theatre sets, employing around twenty people.
On graduation, he found work designing hotel interiors but continued a part-time course in sculpture at Chelsea Art College (where his parents had studied).
In the late 1970s, he found employment at the BBC's special-effects department, working on sets for Doctor Who and Blake's 7 .
His father, of Maltese ancestry, had success as a musician and film-maker, and died in 1974, when Guy was only 17. Portelli’s own son Anthony died aged only 13.
Portelli began sculpting at age 17.
His work is found in public and corporate collections in Britain and the United States. Musician Ringo Starr possesses several of his pieces. The Peace and Love sculpture has been on show in Beverly Hills. [1]
Portelli was previously a fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors and was vice-president of the Royal Society of British Artists.
In 2002, he won the Elisabeth Frink School Award, and the Scott Goodman Harris Award in 2003. [2]
In 2008, Portelli gained £80,000 from three investors of the television programme Dragons' Den , convincing them that modern art is a viable and realistic investment. This centred upon his "Pop Icons" collection, 18 pieces exhibited at the Mall Galleries in London. This instantly raised his public profile.
Celebrating the Battle of Hastings 950th Anniversary, Sculpture in Battle High Street. 2016
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