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Paul Day has spent over twenty years developing a highly personal approach to figurative sculpture with a particular interest in representing the figure in architectural space using high-relief, an art form that combines drawn composition and fully rounded sculpture.
Upon finishing his education in England, Paul Day began working professionally at once, aided by a grant from the Prince of Wales Business Youth Trust . Over the years he has developed a form of art singularly difficult to categorise in terms of contemporary artistic idioms. His high relief sculptures in terracotta, resin and bronze have been exhibited widely in Europe and are appreciated not least for their peculiarly personal approach to perspective. His exhibitions attract considerable interest from both the public and media alike. This appeal of an artist who is unquestionably of his time but whose world links up with a longstanding tradition is rare. Day has the themes of Urbanity and the City at the heart of his artistic practice and, in order to represent them, has elaborated a perspective of subjectivity.
Since his first solo show in Paris in 1995, Paul Day has undertaken many commissions and exhibitions in Europe, the United States and Canada. It was due to an exhibition at the Sculpture Foundation at Goodwood (UK) in 2001 that Paul Day was selected to compete in the competition for a monument to the Battle of Britain and for which he was chosen. This was the first public monument to be sited in his home country. Since then other monuments in London have followed.
Paul Day Dates
1967 Born in England
1987- 88 Foundation Course, Colchester Institute
1988- 89 Dartington School of Arts
1989- 91 Cheltenham School of Art, B.A. Hons
1991 Prince’s Trust Award
1993 Taylor Foundation Prize
1999 Lauréat, Susse Foundry Prize
2002 Lauréat, Battle of Britain Monument Competition
2006 Honorary Doctorate, University of Gloucestershire
2007 Lauréat, Queen Mother Memorial Competition
Important Commissions
2011 Sculpture project for the City of Westminster, (in progress)
Monument project for a major London football club (in progress)
2010 Gold Sovereign for the Queen’s Jubilee, the Royal Mint,UK.
2008 The Queen Mother Memorial, London
2007 The Meeting Place, St Pancras International Station, London
2006 Rupert Brooke memorial statue, Grantchester, Cambridge, UK
2005 The Battle of Britain London Monument, Westminster, London
2004 ‘The Few’ memorial sculpture, Dorsington, Warwickshire, UK
2001 Mining Tragedy memorial sculpture, Charleroi, Belgium
2000 ‘Brussels, an urban comedy’, (25m long frieze), Brussels
Relief frieze for Brussels City Parliament
1999 ‘The Two Houses’ commissioned by Jeffrey Archer, London
1994 Triptych for Hilton International, Watford, UK
1991 ‘The Visitation’ commissioned by Leo & Jilly Cooper, Glos. UK
1992 St Peter, Prinknash Abbey, Glos. UK
1990 Harry Judge CBE, Fire Service Training College, Glos. UK
Solo Exhibitions
2011 Permanent Paul Day exhibition, Musee des Beaux Arts, Beaune
Musee de Roanne, France
2009 Arthus Gallery, Brussels
Plus One Gallery, London
Espace Contemporain, Beaune, France
2006 The Gardiner Museum, Toronto, Canada
Galerie Alain Blondel, Paris
Espace Contemporain, Beaune, France
2005 The Cass Sculpture Foundation, London
Paul Day at Bloomsbury Auctions, London
2004 Espace Contemporain, Beaune, France
2003 Garth Clark Gallery, New York
2002 Galerie Alain Blondel,Paris
Arthus Gallery, Brussels
2001 The Cass Sculpture Foundation, Goodwood, UK.
‘Brussels, an urban comedy’, St. Hubert Galleries, Brussels
2000 Ulrich Gering Gallery, Frankfurt
Galerie Alain Blondel, Paris
Exhibition of drawings, Museum of Corte, Corsica
1999 Studio 8, London
Atelier Gustave, Paris
1998 Art Frankfurt with Ulrich Gering Gallery, Frankfurt
1997 Duncan Campbell Contemporary Art, London
Art Service Gallery, Paris
1995 Art Service Gallery, Paris
1994 Château d’Eguilly (21) France
1992 Cheltenham Museum & Art Gallery, Glos. UK
Various Collections
Fine Art Museum of Houston, USA
Arizona State University Museum, USA
The Gardiner Museum of Ceramics, Toronto
Buckingham Palace
The Palace of Westminster
Brussels Regional Parliament
Mannheimer Versicherung, Germany
Group Exhibitions
2010 Michele Becker Gallery, Vancouver
2008 Exarte Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
2007 Human Form in Clay, Shigaraki Ceramic Museum, Japan
2003 SOFA, New York, Garth Clark Gallery
2002 Salon des Tuileries, Paris
Salon de la Sculpture, Lyon
2001 Salon des Tuileries, Paris
1999 Studio 8, London
1998 ‘Visions Urbaines’, Galerie Fabrice Galvani, Toulouse
Salon de Fontaine-les-Dijon,( invited artist)
Salon de Charenton-le-Pont, (invited artist)
1997 Unicorn Pictures at the Palace of Westminster, London
‘Stadtlandfluss’ Ulrich Gering Galerie, Frankfurt
’0uvoir de photographie potentielle’, Theatre 13, Paris
Art Cologne (Ulrich Gering Galerie )
1993 Salon des Artistes Français, Grand Palais, Paris
1991 Fresh Art, Islington Design Center, London