Peter Randall-Page

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Peter Randall-Page
SEED.jpg
Seed
Born
Peter Marty Randall-Page

(1954-07-02) 2 July 1954 (age 70)
Essex, England, United Kingdom
NationalityBritish
Education Bath Academy of Art
Known forSculptor, Printer, Drawer
AwardsWinston Churchill Memorial Trust Travelling Fellowship (1980), Honorary Doctorate of Art, University of Plymouth (1999), 2006 Marsh Award for Public Sculpture

Peter Randall-Page RA (born 1954) is a British artist and sculptor, known for his stone sculpture work, inspired by geometric patterns from nature. [1] In his words "geometry is the theme on which nature plays his infinite variations, fundamental mathematical principle become a kind of pattern book from which nature constructs the most complex and sophisticated structures". [2] [3]

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Biography

Randall-Page was born in Essex and spent his childhood in Sussex both studying at the Bath Academy of Art from 1973 to 1977 after which he worked with the sculptor Barry Flanagan. [4] After working on a conservation project at Wells Cathedral, Randall-Page went to Italy to study stone carving at the Carrara quarries. [4] Returning to Britain, he was a visiting lecturer at Brighton Polytechnic throughout the 1980s and established a studio at Drewsteignton in Devon. [4] From there he undertook a number of significant public sculpture commissions, often featuring fruit and organic forms. These included works for the regeneration of Castle Park in Bristol and for the Eden Project in Cornwall. [4] For the Eden Project he was a member of the design team for the Education Resource Centre (The Core), influencing the overall design of the building and incorporating an enormous granite sculpture, Seed, at its heart. [5] [6] A major retrospective of his work was held in 1992 at the Leeds City Art Gallery and the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. [4] During 1994 Randall-Page held an artist-in-residence post at the Tasmanian School of Art and undertook a lecture tour of Australia, supported by the Arts Council England. [4]

In 1980 he was taken on by the Anne Berthoud Gallery in London's Covent Garden. Randall-Page's work is held in numerous public and private collections throughout the world including Japan, South Korea, Australia, United States, Ireland, Germany and the Netherlands. His public sculptures can be found in London, Edinburgh, Manchester, Bristol and Newbury. [7] His work is represented in the permanent collections of the Tate Gallery and the British Museum. [8] [9]

Randall-Page was elected to the Royal Academy in 2015. [10] In 1999, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Arts from the University of Plymouth and from 2002 to 2005 was an Associate Research Fellow at Dartington College of Arts. [11]

Portraits of Randall-Page

The National Portrait Gallery collection has 2003 [12] and 2011 [13] bromide photographic images of Randall-Page.

Public collections

Selected public works

ImageTitle / subjectLocation and
coordinates
DateTypeMaterialDimensionsDesignation Wikidata Notes
The Fruit Gatherers, by Peter Randall Page - geograph.org.uk - 57681.jpg Fruit GathersRufford Craft Centre, Edwinstowe, England1982Sculpture groupStoneVarious [16]
London - Peter Randall-Page.jpg Beneath the SkinBloomsbury Way, London1991SculptureGranite [17]
Beside the Still Waters - geograph.org.uk - 1147787.jpg
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Beside the Still Waters Castle Park, Bristol 1993Two sculptures & water featureGranite [18]
The 'Hundred Year Stone', Derwent Water - geograph.org.uk - 1249923.jpg
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Hundred Year StoneBeside Derwentwater, Cumbria 1995Sculpture Andesite 220 x 140 x 130cm Q41706237 [19]
Newbury - Ebb And Flow (geograph 2918295).jpg
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Ebb and Flow Newbury Lock, Berkshire 2003Fountain and pavingGranite2.4m diameter fountain Q87448632 [20]
Fisher Hall and Fisher Square - geograph.org.uk - 652164.jpg
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Between the LinesFisher Square, Cambridge 2007SculptureGranite glacial boulder178 x 214 x 180cm [21]
Seed - The Core @ Eden Project (9757638576).jpg
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SeedThe Core, Eden Project 2007SculptureGranite [5]
Campus Westend Frankfurt Skulpturen 11.JPG
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Corpus, Fructus and PhyllotaxusNew Art Centre, Salisbury 2009, 2013 (Phyllotaxus)Sculpture groupLimestonePreviously at Campus Westend, Goethe University Frankfurt and elsewhere. [22] [23]
Walking the dog installation.jpg
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Walking the Dog Dulwich Picture Gallery 2009Sculpture groupGranite [24]
Millbank, Riverside Walk, Clouds in the Sky sculpture.jpg
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Shapes in the Clouds IIRiverside Walk, Millbank, London2014SculptureMarble Q120598719 [25]
Fitzroy Place, The One and the Many, Peter Randall-Page.jpg The One and The Many Fitzroy Place, London2015SculptureGranite glacial boulder178 x 214 x 180cm [26]

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  6. Randall-Page, Peter (2006). "Collaboration on the Integration of Sculpture and Architecture in the Eden Project" (PDF). Retrieved 8 January 2018.
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  14. "By Another Ocean III". Arts and Culture, University of Exeter. Retrieved 4 December 2019.
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  16. "Fruit Gathers". www.peterrandall-page.com. 15 March 1982. Retrieved 17 September 2020.
  17. "Beneath the Skin". www.peterrandall-page.com. 15 November 1991. Retrieved 17 September 2020.
  18. Douglas Merritt (2002). Sculpture in Bristol. Redcliffe Press Ltd. ISBN   1900178834.
  19. "Hundred Year Stone". www.peterrandall-page.com. June 1995. Retrieved 17 September 2020.
  20. "Ebb and Flow". www.peterrandall-page.com. 4 May 2003. Retrieved 17 September 2020.
  21. "Between the Lines". www.peterrandall-page.com. 20 April 2007. Retrieved 14 August 2020.
  22. "Corpus, Fructus und Phyllotaxus". www.peterrandall-page.com. 6 April 2009. Retrieved 17 September 2020.
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  24. "Walking the Dog". www.peterrandall-page.com. 6 April 2009. Retrieved 17 September 2020.
  25. "Shapes in the Clouds I, II, III, IV, V". Peter Randall-Page. 23 March 2014. Retrieved 19 December 2023.
  26. "The One and The Many". www.peterrandall-page.com. 17 March 2015. Retrieved 17 September 2020.