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Jane Ackroyd
British artist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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 between 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.[4][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.[6]
Ackroyd's public commissions often feature birds and animals, for example Cat at the Old Library in Harlow.[5][3] Other public commissions include Well at the Museum of Harlow, at the site of the former Royal Free Hospital in Islington and the Haymarket in London.[3][6] The Arts Council England, the Contemporary Arts Society, the Leicestershire Education Authority and the Goodwood Sculpture Park hold works by Ackroyd.[3][6]
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Awards
- In 1983 Ackroyd won the Special Melchett Award for work in steel and a travel scholarship to Carrara in Italy.[6]
- During her time at the Royal College of Art, Ackroyd was awarded the Fulham Pottery Award.[2]
- Ackroyd was awarded the Europa Nostra Award for the 1993 redevelopment of The Old Royal Free Hospital, Islington, in collaboration with Levitt Bernstein Architects.[7]
- In 1995 Ackroyd received the Jackson Pollock-Lee Krasner Foundation Award in New York.[7]
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