Artist Peter Randall-Page working on the sculpture ‘Inside Out’ Photo credit: Steve Russell Studios
About the artist Peter Randall-Page
Peter Randall-Page was born in the UK in 1954 and studied sculpture at Bath Academy of Art from 1973 to 1977. During the past forty years he has gained an international reputation for his sculptures, architectural façades and decorations, drawings and prints. He has undertaken numerous large-scale commissions and exhibited widely. His work is held in public and private collections worldwide including Japan, South Korea, Australia, the USA, Turkey, Eire, Germany and the Netherlands. His sculptures can be seen in many public urban and rural locations throughout the UK including London, Edinburgh, Manchester, Bristol, Oxford and Cambridge. His work is in the permanent collections of the Tate Gallery and the British Museum amongst others.
His practice has always been informed and inspired by the study of natural phenomena and its subjective impact on our emotions. In recent years his work has become increasingly concerned with the underlying principles determining growth and the forms it produces. In his words: ‘geometry is the theme on which nature plays her infinite variations and can be seen as a kind of pattern book on which the most complex and sophisticated structures are based’.
He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Arts from the University of Plymouth in 1999, an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from York St John University in 2009, an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from Exeter University in 2010, and an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from Bath Spa University in 2013. In June 2015 Peter was elected as a Royal Academician in the category of sculpture.
As a member of the design team for the Education Resource Centre (The Core) at the Eden Project in Cornwall, Peter influenced the overall design of the building which has his enormous granite sculpture Seed at its heart.
In 2007 he was invited by the Ruwenzori Sculpture Foundation, Pangolin Editions and the Parabola Land charity to participate in the ‘Rock Music, Rock Art’ project on Lolui Island, Uganda. This culminated in his solo show of the same name at Pangolin London. The Yorkshire Sculpture Park held a major one-person exhibition of his work from June 2009 to April 2010.
Commissions include: Give and Take, Newcastle, which won the 2006 Marsh Award for Excellence in Public Sculpture; Mind’s Eye, a large ceramic wall-mounted piece for the Department of Psychology at Cardiff University (2006); a commemorative sculpture for the Mohegan chief Mahomet Weyonomon at Southwark Cathedral (2006); Harmonic Solids for the University of Music at Karlsruhe (2013); Source at Southmead Hospital Bristol (2013); Theme and Variation, commissioned by the University of Birmingham for the façade of the Bramhall Music Building (2014); façades for the new laboratory building at Dulwich College, designed in collaboration with Grimshaw architects (2016); The One and The Many at Fitzroy Place, London (2016); Touchstone, a commission for Transport for London at Oval Triangle, London (2018); and most recently Espalier, commissioned by the Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, for the enamel cladding of a lift shaft extension to the RWA building (2022).