Thompson Dagnall is a British

sculptor Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...

Born in Liverpool on 15 February 1956, he attended

Liverpool Liverpool is a port City status in the United Kingdom, city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. It is situated on the eastern side of the River Mersey, Mersey Estuary, near the Irish Sea, north-west of London. With a population ...

and

Brighton Brighton ( ) is a seaside resort in the city status in the United Kingdom, city of Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, England, south of London. Archaeological evidence of settlement in the area dates back to the Bronze Age Britain, Bronze Age, R ...

Polytechnics before gaining an MA at Chelsea College in 1979.Thompson Dagnall: CV
accessed 16 January 2010 He is a prolific producer of works on public commission,
, accessed 11 July 2008 including ''Archimedes'' and ''Luca Pacioli'' in

Manchester Manchester () is a city and the metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. It had an estimated population of in . Greater Manchester is the third-most populous metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, with a population of 2.92&nbs ...

; ''Halsall Navvy'' in

Halsall Halsall is a village and civil parish in West Lancashire, England, located close to Ormskirk on the A5147 and Leeds and Liverpool Canal. Description Historically known as Heleshala, Herleshala, (Domesday Book); Haleshal, 1224; Haleshale, 12 ...

; ''Black Tiger and Kissing Seat'', ''Walking Snake'', ''Hanging Bat'', ''Spruced up Heron'' and ''Orme Sight'' in

Beacon Fell Country Park A beacon is an intentionally conspicuous device designed to attract attention to a specific location. A common example is the lighthouse, which draws attention to a fixed point that can be used to navigate around obstacles or into port. More mode ...

; and ''Gauging the Ripple'' by the

Ribble Link The Millennium Ribble Link is a linear water park and new navigation which links the once-isolated Lancaster Canal in Lancashire, England to the River Ribble. The Lancaster Canal was never connected to the rest of the English waterways network, ...

canal in Preston (nicknamed the "Ribble Piddler"Squires, Matthew (30 March 2009)
"Piddler will return as £30k iron man"
''Lancashire Evening Post'', Preston, accessed 10 August 2009). In his early career, he carved nudes with his first clothed piece being a sculpture of cricketer Don Bradman in 1985

Notes

1956 births Living people British sculptors British male sculptors Alumni of Liverpool John Moores University Alumni of the University of Brighton {{UK-sculptor-stub