Peter Randall-Page

Peter Randall - Page (born 1954 in Essex, United Kingdom ) is a British sculptor, draftsman and graphic artist.

Life and work

Randall - Page studied from 1973 to 1977 at the Bath Academy of Art in Bath. After graduating, he went to London and worked for a years in the studio of the sculptor Barry Flanagan. In 1980 he received a scholarship from the Winston Churchill Memorial Travelling Fellowship, which he had the chance to study the working of marble in Italy.

In 1987 he moved to the city of Devon, where he worked as a stone sculptor constantly lives and works.

In 1999, the University of Plymouth awarded him an honorary doctorate for his contribution to the arts.

His work was inspired by the study of organic forms and of subjective emotional outbursts, which was reflected in his sculptures. In his words: ". Geometry is the theme on Which nature plays her infinite variations, fundamental mathematical principle become a kind of pattern book from Which nature constructs the most complex and sophisticated structures" ( geometry is the theme with the nature in different variations plays fundamental mathematical principles are a type of pattern, the constructed nature in the most complex and advanced structures. )

Work (selection)

Under the skin, BUPA House, Londen

Sculpture in the Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Inner compulsion, Wakehurst Place

Spring stones, Oggelshausen

Detail: spring stones

Catalogs

• Peter Randall - Page. Sculpture and drawings 1977 - 1992 [ Catalogue Raisonne compiled by Clive Adams.. Essays by James Hamilton, Marina Warner. ] Leeds, The Henry Moore Centre / Leeds City Art Centre, 1992.