Richard Deacon valuation
Turner Prize-winning British sculptor of open, looping forms in laminated wood, steel, leather and clay.
Richard Deacon was born in Bangor, Wales, in 1949, studied at the Somerset College of Art in Taunton, at St Martin's School of Art and at the Royal College of Art in London, which he left in 1977, and had his first solo exhibition in Brixton the following year.
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Bio
Richard Deacon was born in Bangor, Wales, in 1949, studied at the Somerset College of Art in Taunton, at St Martin's School of Art and at the Royal College of Art in London, which he left in 1977, and had his first solo exhibition in Brixton the following year. With Tony Cragg, Anish Kapoor and Bill Woodrow he was one of the New British Sculpture of the 1980s. His sculptures are abstract but suggest organic and anatomical things, ears, lungs, shells, molecules, smoke and water, in open, looping, curving forms of laminated wood, bent and riveted steel, linoleum, leather, concrete, limestone and glazed ceramic. He calls himself a fabricator rather than a sculptor, and the making stays visible, in rivets, joints and the glue that seeps from between layers of wood. He won the Turner Prize in 1987, was elected a Royal Academician in 1998, represented Wales at the Venice Biennale in 2007 and had a retrospective at Tate Britain in 2014.
His work ranges from monumental public sculpture to small pieces, and his long-running series Art for Other People, numbered smaller works in many materials, is more within reach of private collections, along with drawings and prints. Glued laminated wood can open at the joints, steel corrodes and ceramics chip, so condition should be assessed by someone who knows his materials. A provenance through Lisson Gallery or Thaddaeus Ropac supports a work.
Bangor, St Martin's and the Turner Prize
He was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1984 and won it three years later for his touring exhibition For Those Who Have Eyes.
A retrospective travelled to the Kunstmuseum Winterthur, the Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku and the Langen Foundation in Neuss in 2015 and 2016, and the Museum Folkwang in Essen gave his drawings their first survey in 2016.
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