Peter Randall-Page

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 her infinite variations, fundamental mathematical principle become a kind of pattern book from which nature constructs the most complex and sophisticated structures".[2][3]

Peter Randall-Page
Seed
Born	Peter Randall-Page 2 July 1954 Essex, England, United Kingdom
Nationality	British
Education	Bath Academy of Art
Known for	Sculptor, Printer, Drawer
Awards	Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Travelling Fellowship (1980), Honorary Doctorate of Art, University of Plymouth (1999), 2006 Marsh Award for Public Sculpture

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] The National Portrait Gallery collection has a 2003 bromide print of Randall-Page.[12]

Public collections

• Arnolfini Collection Trust, Bristol
• The British Council.
• The British Embassy, Dublin
• The British Museum
• Bughley Sculpture Garden
• Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Nottingham
• The Contemporary Art Society, London
• The Creasy Collection of Contemporary Art, Salisbury
• Derby Arboretum
• University of Exeter[13]
• Leeds City Art Galleries
• Lincoln City Council
• Milton Keynes Community NHS Trust
• The National Trust Foundation for Art
• Nottinghamshire City Council
• University of Nottingham
• Prior's Court School for Autistic Children, Thatcham
• University of Tasmania
• Tate Collection; 'Where the Bee Sucks'(1991)[14]
• Ulster Museum, Belfast
• Usher Gallery, Lincolnshire County Council
• University of Warwick, Coventry
• West Kent College, Tonbridge
• The Dartington Hall Trust estate, Devon
• The Eden Centre, Cornwall

Selected public works

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Type	Material	Dimensions	Designation	Wikidata	Notes
	Fruit Gathers	Rufford Craft Centre, Edwinstowe, England	1982	Sculpture group	Stone	Various			[15]
	Beneath the Skin	Bloomsbury Way, London	1991	Sculpture	Granite				[16]
More images	Beside the Still Waters	Castle Park, Bristol	1993	Two sculptures & water feature	Granite				[17]
More images	Hundred Year Stone	Beside Derwentwater, Cumbria	1995	Sculpture	Andesite	220 x 140 x 130cm		Q41706237	[18]
More images	Ebb and Flow	Newbury Lock, Berkshire	2003	Fountain and paving	Granite	2.4m diameter fountain		Q87448632	[19]
More images	Between the Lines	Fisher Square, Cambridge	2007	Sculpture	Granite glacial boulder	178 x 214 x 180cm			[20]
More images	Corpus, Fructus and Phyllotaxus	New Art Centre, Salisbury	2009, 2013 (Phyllotaxus)	Sculpture group	Limestone				Previously at Campus Westend, Goethe University Frankfurt and elsewhere.[21]
More images	Walking the Dog	Dulwich Picture Gallery	2009	Sculpture group	Granite				[22]
	Clouds in the Sky II	Riverside Walk, Millbank, London	2013	Sculpture
	The One and The Many	Fitzroy Place, London	2015	Sculpture	Granite glacial boulder	178 x 214 x 180cm			[23]

Further reading

• London Art and Artists Guide 10th edition, Heather Waddell
• Sculpture in 20th-century Britain, Henry Moore Institute 2003
• Reviews Artists and Public Space, Black Dog Publishing 2005

References

1. "Sculptor inspired by nature". BBC Devon. 24 September 2014. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
2. "About the artist". Peter Randall-Page. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
3. Warner, Marina (3 July 2009). "Marina Warner on Peter Randall-Page's atmospheric sculptures". The Guardian.
4. David Buckman (2006). Artists in Britain Since 1945 Vol 2, M to Z. Art Dictionaries Ltd. ISBN 0 953260 95 X.
5. "Seed sculpture by Peter Randall-Page". Eden Project. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
6. Randall-Page, Peter (2006). "Collaboration on the Integration of Sculpture and Architecture in the Eden Project" (PDF). Retrieved 8 January 2018.
7. "Public Commissions – sculpture & architectural works". Peter Randall-Page. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
8. "Peter Randall-Page". Tate Etc. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
9. "Collection online – Peter Randall-Page". British Museum. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
10. "Peter Randall-Page". Royal Academy of Arts. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
11. "Biography". Peter Randall-Page. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
12. "NPG x126708; Peter Randall-Page – Large Image – National Portrait Gallery". Npg.org.uk. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
13. "By Another Ocean III". Arts and Culture, University of Exeter. Retrieved 4 December 2019.
14. "'Where the Bee Sucks', Peter Randall-Page, 1991". Tate Etc. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
15. "Fruit Gathers". www.peterrandall-page.com. Retrieved 17 September 2020.
16. "Beneath the Skin". www.peterrandall-page.com. Retrieved 17 September 2020.
17. Douglas Merritt (2002). Sculpture in Bristol. Redcliffe Press Ltd. ISBN 1900178834.
18. "Hundred Year Stone". www.peterrandall-page.com. Retrieved 17 September 2020.
19. "Ebb and Flow". www.peterrandall-page.com. Retrieved 17 September 2020.
20. "Between the Lines". www.peterrandall-page.com. Retrieved 14 August 2020.
21. "Corpus, Fructus und Phyllotaxus". www.peterrandall-page.com. Retrieved 17 September 2020.
22. "Walking the Dog". www.peterrandall-page.com. Retrieved 17 September 2020.
23. "The One and The Many". www.peterrandall-page.com. Retrieved 17 September 2020.

External links

• Official Website
• Peter Randall-Page talks about his sculpture; Womb Tomb