Jane Ackroyd Explained

Jane Ackroyd
Birth Place:London
Nationality:British
Known For:Sculpture

Jane Ackroyd (born 1957) is a British artist best known for her public sculptures.[1] She is based in London.[2]

Biography

Ackroyd was born in London and attended St Martin's School of Art from 1979 to 1982.[3] She then studied for her master's degree at the Royal College of Art during 1982 and 1983.[4] In 1984 she held an artist-in-residence post in Leicestershire and had her first solo exhibition at the Kingsgate Workshops Gallery.[5] From 1988 she has been a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy summer exhibitions in London and has had a series of solo exhibitions at the Anderson O'Day gallery.[6] Ackroyd participated in the first Royal West of England Academy Open Sculpture Exhibition held in 1993.

Ackroyd's public commissions often feature birds and animals, for example Cat at the Old Library in Harlow. Other public commissions include Well at the Museum of Harlow, at the site of the former Royal Free Hospital in Islington and at the Haymarket in London. The Arts Council England, the Contemporary Arts Society, the Leicestershire Education Authority and the Goodwood Sculpture Park hold works by Ackroyd.

Awards

Works in collections

TitleYearMediumGallery no.GalleryLocation
Cat1983welded mild steel14Harlow Art TrustHarlow, England
Chicken-metal0589Leicestershire County Council Artworks CollectionLeicestershire, England
Dog-metal0922Leicestershire County Council Artworks CollectionLeicestershire, England
Everything but the Kitchen Sink2011copperS.2011.686.CCCentral Saint MartinsLondon, England
Queen Victoria1987welded steel3774West Middlesex University HospitalLondon, England
Well Head-mild steelCM20_TJ_S034Harlow MuseumHarlow, England

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Artist Profile: Jane Ackroyd. Turnbull. Alison. 2015-09-09. Alison Turnbull Associates. en. 2019-10-09. 9 October 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20191009093421/https://alisonturnbullassociates.wordpress.com/2015/09/09/artist-profile-jane-ackroyd/. dead.
  2. Web site: Wildebeest Sculptures CASS Sculpture Foundation. www.sculpture.org.uk. en. 2019-10-09. 9 October 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20191009093421/http://www.sculpture.org.uk/artwork/wildebeest. dead.
  3. Book: Terry Wyke with Harry Cocks. Liverpool University Press / Manchester Metropolitan University. 2004. Public Sculpture of Britain Volume 8: Public Sculpture of Greater Manchester . 0-85323-567-8.
  4. Book: Frances Spalding. Antique Collectors' Club. 1990. 20th Century Painters and Sculptors . 1-85149-106-6.
  5. Book: Alan Windsor. Ashgate. 2003. British Sculptors of the Twentieth Century . 1-85928-4566.
  6. Book: Artists in Britain Since 1945 Vol 1, A to L. David Buckman. Art Dictionaries Ltd. 2006. 0-953260-95-X.
  7. Web site: Jane Ackroyd. Saatchi Art. en-US. 2019-10-09.