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Tom Murphy | |
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Born | 1949 (age 71–72) Whiston, Lancashire, England |
Nationality | English |
Known for | Bronze sculpture |
Website | liverpoolsculptures |
Tom Murphy (born 1949) is an English artist who is best known for his bronze sculptures.
Murphy is a self-taught artist, starting his artistic career initially as a hobby and moved quickly to an intense period of self-study, mastering a range of techniques in many art disciplines.[ citation needed ]
Previously he worked in a number of occupations which included; a seaman, salesman, musician and impressionist in a pop group.[ citation needed ]
Later he graduated as a teacher at Liverpool John Moores University and taught art at the Liverpool Community College. [1] He also worked at a Centre for People with Learning Difficulties.[ citation needed ] His differing careers and interest in the characteristics of people have both acted as a rich source of inspiration in both his paintings and sculptures.[ citation needed ]
His early experimenting in painting was finally appreciated when he won first prize in the BBC 'North West Art 88' competition. [1] His big success in sculpture came in 1996 when his 7 feet 6 inches (2.29 m) sculpture of John Lennon was seen by a representative of major Liverpool Company, Littlewoods.[ citation needed ] He was commissioned to sculpt two monumental size bronzes of the Moores brothers for Liverpool's premier shopping area Church Street.
His work is all over the city of Liverpool as well as in Chorley, Lancashire, Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley, Merseyside, Germany and New York City. He has also sold many smaller works around the world.[ citation needed ]
In 2003, he was voted by Radio Merseyside listeners and Liverpool Echo readers as the 76th Greatest Merseysider. [2]
Now his work is known all over the world since creating the iconic statue of John Lennon at Liverpool John Lennon Airport which was unveiled jointly on 15 March 2002, by Cherie Blair and Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono. [3] [4] His sculptures of Ken Dodd and Bessie Braddock, commissioned by Merseytravel are sited at Liverpool Lime Street railway station. [5] Though best known for his large sculptures, he has always maintained his interest in a wide range of art disciplines and sectors.[ citation needed ] An accomplished painter, he has been commissioned to paint many key Merseyside figures including the official retirement portrait of Mr John Moores.[ citation needed ]
In 2015 his bronze sculpture of Trooper Potts VC and Trooper Andrews, of the Berkshire Yeomanry was unveiled by Chris Tarrant and the Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire. The Grandchildren of both Fred Potts and Arthur Andrews and many other descendants attended the unveiling ceremony along with Mayors and Chairs of Councils from across "Old Berkshire". Sited just outside Forbury Gardens, Reading Tom developed the design to appeal to children, young people and the military historian.[ citation needed ] Cast by the Morris Singer Foundry it has a high degree of finish and much historical detail, including items lying on the Gallipoli Battlefield.[ citation needed ] [6]
Title or subject | Medium | Date | Location | Image |
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Sir John and Cecil Moores | Bronze | 1996 | Church Street, Liverpool, outside the former Littlewoods store | |
Diana, Princess of Wales [7] | Plaster | 1997 | Liverpool Women's Hospital | |
Bill Shankly | Bronze | 1997 | Anfield stadium, Liverpool | |
Henry Egerton Cotton | Bronze | 1998 | John Moores University, Trueman Street, Liverpool | |
Sir John Moores | Bronze | 1998 | Avril Robarts Library, Tithebarn Street, Liverpool | |
Johnnie Walker DSO | Bronze | 1998 | Pier Head, Liverpool | |
Liverpool Blitz memorial [8] | Bronze | 2000 | Garden of the Church of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas, Pier Head, Liverpool | |
Dixie Dean | Bronze | 2001 | Goodison Park, Liverpool | |
John Lennon | Bronze | 2002 | Liverpool John Lennon Airport | |
Billy Fury | Bronze | 2003 | Albert Dock, Liverpool | |
Harold Wilson | Bronze | 2006 [9] | Huyton, Merseyside | |
Noel Chavasse VC & bar [10] | Bronze | 2008 | Abercromby Square, Liverpool, and Trinity College, Oxford | |
Bessie Braddock | Bronze | 2009 | Liverpool Lime Street station, in a grouping with the statue of Ken Dodd | |
Ken Dodd | Bronze | 2009 | Liverpool Lime Street station, in a grouping with the statue of Bessie Braddock | |
Hillsborough disaster memorial [11] | Bronze | 2013 | Old Haymarket, Liverpool | |
Liverpool Pals Memorial [12] | Bronze relief | 2014 | Liverpool Lime Street station | |
Fred Potts VC and Arthur Andrews [13] | Bronze | 2015 | The Forbury, Reading, Berkshire | |
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