Peter Randall-Page RA (born 1954) is a British artist and sculptor, known for his stone sculpture work, inspired by geometric patterns from nature. In his words "geometry is the theme on which nature plays his infinite variations, fundamental mathematical principle become a kind of pattern book from which nature constructs the most complex and sophisticated structures".

Biography

Randall-Page was born in Essex and spent his childhood in Sussex both studying at the Bath Academy of Art from 1973 to 1977 after which he worked with the sculptor Barry Flanagan. After working on a conservation project at

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, Randall-Page went to Italy to study stone carving at the

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quarries. Returning to Britain, he was a visiting lecturer at Brighton Polytechnic throughout the 1980s and established a studio at Drewsteignton in Devon. From there he undertook a number of significant public sculpture commissions, often featuring fruit and organic forms. These included works for the regeneration of Castle Park in Bristol and for the

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in Cornwall. For the Eden Project he was a member of the design team for the Education Resource Centre (The Core), influencing the overall design of the building and incorporating an enormous granite sculpture, ''Seed'', at its heart. A major retrospective of his work was held in 1992 at the Leeds City Art Gallery and the

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. During 1994 Randall-Page held an artist-in-residence post at the Tasmanian School of Art and undertook a lecture tour of Australia, supported by the

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. In 1980 he was taken on by the Anne Berthoud Gallery in London's Covent Garden. Randall-Page's work is held in numerous public and private collections throughout the world including Japan, South Korea, Australia, United States, Ireland, Germany and the Netherlands. His public sculptures can be found in London, Edinburgh, Manchester, Bristol and Newbury. His work is represented in the permanent collections of the

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and the

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. Randall-Page was elected to the

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in 2015. In 1999, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Arts from the

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and from 2002 to 2005 was an Associate Research Fellow at

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Portraits of Randall-Page

The

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collection has 2003 and 2011 bromide photographic images of Randall-Page.

Public collections

* Arnolfini Collection Trust, Bristol * The

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. * The British Embassy, Dublin * The

* Bughley Sculpture Garden * Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Nottingham * The Contemporary Art Society, London * The Creasy Collection of Contemporary Art, Salisbury * Derby Arboretum * University of Exeter * Leeds City Art Galleries * Lincoln City Council * Milton Keynes Community NHS Trust * The National Trust Foundation for Art * Nottinghamshire City Council * University of Nottingham * Prior's Court School for Autistic Children, Thatcham * University of Tasmania * Tate Collection; 'Where the Bee Sucks'(1991) * Ulster Museum, Belfast * Usher Gallery, Lincolnshire County Council *

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, Coventry * West Kent College, Tonbridge * The Dartington Hall Trust estate, Devon * The Eden Centre, Cornwall

Selected public works

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