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

Biography

Ackroyd was born in London and attended

St Martin's School of Art Saint Martin's School of Art was an art college in London, England. It offered foundation and degree level courses. It was established in 1854, initially under the aegis of the church of St Martin-in-the-Fields. Saint Martin's became part of t ...

from 1979 to 1982. She then studied for her master's degree at the

Royal College of Art The Royal College of Art (RCA) is a public university, public research university in London, United Kingdom, with campuses in South Kensington, Battersea and White City, London, White City. It is the only entirely postgraduate art and design uni ...

between 1982 and 1983. In 1984 she held an artist-in-residence post in

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and had her first solo exhibition at the Kingsgate Workshops Gallery. From 1988 she has been a regular exhibitor at the

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summer exhibitions in London and has had a series of solo exhibitions at the Anderson O'Day gallery. Ackroyd participated in the first

Royal West of England Academy The Royal West of England Academy (RWA) is Bristol's oldest art gallery, located in Clifton, Bristol, near the junction of Queens Road and Whiteladies Road. Situated in a Grade II* listed building, it hosts five galleries and an exhibition prog ...

Open Sculpture Exhibition held in 1993. Ackroyd's public commissions often feature birds and animals, for example ''Cat'' at the Old Library in

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. Other public commissions include ''Well'' at the Museum of Harlow, at the site of the former Royal Free Hospital in

Islington Islington ( ) is an inner-city area of north London, England, within the wider London Borough of Islington. It is a mainly residential district of Inner London, extending from Islington's #Islington High Street, High Street to Highbury Fields ...

and the Haymarket in London. The

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, the

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, the Leicestershire Education Authority and the Goodwood Sculpture Park hold works by Ackroyd.

Awards

* In 1983 Ackroyd won the Special Melchett Award for work in steel and a travel scholarship to

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in Italy. * During her time at the Royal College of Art, Ackroyd was awarded the Fulham Pottery Award. * Ackroyd was awarded the

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Award for the 1993 redevelopment of The Old Royal Free Hospital, Islington, in collaboration with Levitt Bernstein Architects. * In 1995 Ackroyd received the Jackson Pollock-Lee Krasner Foundation Award in New York.

Works in collections

References

External links

* * Ackroyd's profile on th
Royal Society of Sculptors website
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