About
PROFESSOR ROBERT WARD F.RSA. FRBS
Date of Birth: 13.09.49. Nottingham, U.K
Naturalised Australian. 1980
Address Birchwood House, 193, Birchwood Lane
Somercotes, Derbyshire, DE55 4NF. UK
Tel 0044 01773 609103
Mobile 07918647191
Email robward53@hotmail.com
Education
1969-73 University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne BA(Hons) Fine Art
1973-75 University of Reading Master of Fine Art
1975-76 Athens Ecole des Kalon Technon ( Greek Govt Scholarship)
Academia di Belle Arti, Roma (Italian Gov. Scholarship)
Awards
1976 Northern Arts Award
1983 Lincolnshire and Humberside Arts Award
1989 Artist in Residence, Leeds City Arts Gallery
1989 British Council Grant
1991 Artist in Residence, Grizedale Forest
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1994 Yorkshire and Humberside Arts Award
1995 Artist in Residence - Schmidt Centre for Art, Florida Atlantic University
1995 British Council Travel Grant
1999 Centre for Canadian Studies, University of Leeds Travel Grant
Teaching
1973-74 Tutor, University of Reading
1974-77 Chelsea School of Art University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
1977-82 University of Newcastle, NSW.Australia Programme Co-ordinator, Sculpture
1982-87 Senior Lecturer in Sculpture Humberside Polytechnic
1987-89 Senior Lecturer in Art and Design West Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education
1989-94 Senior Lecturer, Head of Sculpture
Bretton Hall University of Leeds
1994-2001 Principal Lecturer Head of Centre for Sculpture
Bretton Hall University of Leeds
2001- 2010 Head of Centre for Sculpture, University of Leeds.
2010 - 2014 Professor of Sculpture. University of Huddersfield
1977-2002 Visiting Lecturer
University of Tuubingen , Germany
Norwich School of Art
Liverpool Polytechnic
Newcastle Polytechnic
Brighton Polytechnic
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Falmouth School of Art
Sydney College of Arts, University of New South Wales
Royal College of Art
Visiting Professor
University of Newcastle N.S.W. Australia
Florida Atlantic University
One Man Exhibitions
1969 Hatton Gallery – University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
1975 British Council Gallery – Athens
1976 Hatton Gallery – University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
1977 Coventry Gallery – Sydney
1978 These Foolish Things Newcastle Regional Gallery, NSW, Australia
1978 The Sculpture Centre – Sydney
1980 Places, Paths and Mountains Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1983 Northern Centre for Contemporary Art Ceolfrith Gallery Sunderland County Durham
1985 Gone Fishin’ Posterngate Gallery, Kingston-upon-Hull and Polytechnic Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
1989 Drawings 1977-1987 and Epiphany Drawings and Sculpture 1988 –89 The Henry Moore Centre for the study of Sculpture, Leeds (first retrospective) Publication
1990 Kimberlin Gallery, Leicester.UK
1990 Le Cadre Gallery, Hong Kong
1991 Le Cadre Gallery, Hong Kong
1991 Idee Gallery, Tokyo
1992 Le Cadre Gallery, Hong Kong
1994 'Crimsworth’ Installation Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham Leeds Metropolitan University Gallery Music by Bill Nelson Publication
1995 Schmidt Centre Gallery Florida Atlantic University, U.S.A.
1995 'Crimsworth’ Drawings Galleri II Salto del Salmone Turin, Italy. Publication
1997 'Crimsworth’ Drawings Galleri II Salto del Salmone Turin, Italy. Publication
1998 ‘Songs’ – 14 bronze sculptures Usdan Gallery, Bennington, Vermont, USA Publication
2000 ‘Six Memoes for the next millennium’ Chiesa di St Agostina Bergamo,Italy, Publication
2004 ‘Patterns Villa Grugliasco Parco Culturale Le Serre Grugliasco Torino Italy
Stadt Museums Werwaltung Waiblingen Germany Publication
2007 Different Places. Shanghai Sculpture Park. Shanghai. China. Publication
2009 Zeestone Gallery Hong Kong
2102 Lo Scrigno delle Arte Antico Borgo Monchiero Alto Italy
2018 Smotherfly Paintings Adjuntament de Potries Valencia Spain
2019 Circles of Solitude Adjuntament de Potries Valencia Spain
2019 Completion of ROB HOUSE MUSEUM Potries Valencia Spain
Group Exhibitions
1973 Young Contemporaries – London, Camden Arts Centre
1974 Reading Museum and Art Gallery
1975 Cleveland International Drawing Biennale – Middlesborough Publication
1977 Sydney Biennale Publication
1978 Australian Sculpture Triennial, Mildura Publication
1979 8 x 2 x 3 Sculpture Drawings Ivan Doherty Gallery, Sydney
1981 Australian Sculpture Triennial, Melbourne
1983 Northern Open-Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne Publication
1983 Drawing in Air: An Exhibition of Sculptor’s Drawings 1882-1982 Ceolfrith Gallery and the Henry Moore Centre for the Study of Sculpture, Leeds Publication
1984 Hull Artist’s Association, Kingston-upon-Hull
1986 Hull Sculpture Ferens Art Gallery, Kingston-upon-Hull
1986 Athena Art Awards, Barbican Art Gallery, London
Publication
1991 Redfern Gallery Summer Show, London
2000 De Saumerez Manor – Jersey Summer Exhibition
2001 Concepts for New Sculpture, Sculpture at Goodwood Publication
2002 Whitney Baldwin Gallery. West Palm Beach, Florida. U.S.A
2002 Blue – Place Art Contemporanea, Turin, Italy Publication
2002 21st Century British Sculpture, Guggenheim Museum, Venice, Italy, Publication
2002 British Geological Survey, Keyworth, Notts. Exhibition of Competition Entries
2002 ‘Solid State’ Contemporary British Stone Carving, Burghley Sculpture Garden, Stamford, Lincs Publication
2003 BLOK, Canterbury Festival of Sculpture.
2003 Form and Content in British Sculpture, Villa Gruliasco, Parco Culturale La Serre, Gruliasco, Turin
2004 Scultura International Exhibition, Castello di Aglie, Italy
2006 Line and Colour in British Art. Chalet Allemand. Grugliasco, Italy
2006 18@ 108. Bronze. Royal British Society of Sculptors. London
2007 Toyamura Sculpture Biennale. Toyamura. Japan. Publication
2007 Art is Steel. Arcelor Mittal. Reims France
Concours Europeen de sculptures monumentales Publication
2008 Neue Kunst in Alten Garten . Gehrden – Lenthe . Hanover. Germany
2009 The China Impetus. Chinese International Sculpture Almanac Exhibition. Exhibition Centre Beijing International Sculpture Centre. Hangzhou . West Lake International Cultural Centre.
2010 The Sculpture Promenade. Fitzwilliam Museum. Cambridge
2010 Scultura Internationale. Castello Racconigi. Italy. Publication
2011 Cat Street Gallery. Hong Kong.Hong Kong
2011 Hannah Peschar Sculpture Garden. UK
2011 International Sculpture Symposium Icheon South Korea
2011 Yue Hue Museum Shanghai Sculpture Park
2012 Carving in Britain 1910 to Present Day Fine Art Society London.
2014 The British Cut. Cat Street Gallery Hong Kong and the Fine Art Society London at the Space Hong Kong
2015 National Archaeological Museum Valletta. Malta. Sculpture for the Maltese Republic
2016 Think Pink . Mandarin Oriental Hotel and Cat Street Gallery. Hong Kong.
2016 Russek Gallery Palm Beach .USA
2016 14th Kajima Sculpture Competition. Kajima KI Building Tokyo and Asto Hall Izumiotsu-shi Osaka
2016 The Silk Road International Exhibition Shaanxi Provincial Museum of Fine Arts Xi an
Shaanxi China
2016 Christies at the Cass Sculpture Foundation Goodwood . UK
2017 Think Pieces at the Cass Sculpture Foundation Uk
2017 Architecture Biennale Palazzo Mora Venice Italy
2017 50 years of Alumni Work..Broderick GalleryHull College of Art and Design. Part of Hull City of Culture
2018 Good wood Festival of Speed. BMW Stand.
2021 The 10 gram challenge Royal Society of Sculptors London
2022 Thirsk Hall Sculpture Park Willerby Gerish Fine Art
Commissions
1991 Ironbridge Open Air Museum of Steel Sculpture Permanent sitting of ‘Epiphany’
1991 Grizedale Forest, Cumbria Residency and Installation of - Tall Poppies
1992 ICI Huddersfield, UK, Installation of ‘Building Bridges’
1994 Tall Poppies Bretton Hall. Yorkshire Sculpture Park
2000 Guilin, China, Installation of ‘Philosophical Sculpture’
2000 Installation of ‘Centurion’, Newcastle Railway Station
2001 Manor Heath, Halifax, Installation of ‘Poppy’
2001 Arriva, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, Installation of ‘Oil Catcher’
2003 Commission to produce ‘Cathedral “’, Calder Park, Wakefield. Peel Holdings PLC
2004 Commission to produce sculpture for Another Paradise,Rose Garden Chin Pao San Taiwan. Theatre” and “House” installed 2005
2004 Commission to produce sculpture for Gesipa. Germany
2005 Commission to produce” Palace” and” Zig”. Menin Developments , Florida U.S.A
2006 Commission to produce “Ships of Fools” and “Flower” for Shanghai Sculpture Park. China
2006 Commission to produce “1634 “. Stadt Museum Waiblingen , Germany.
2006 Commission to produce Ducks , Leather and Bells . Waiblingen Germany
2007 Commission to produce.” Gate”. Cass Sculpture Foundation. Goodwood . U.K
2008 Commission to produce” Hymn,” City of Grugliasco. Turin .Italy
2008 Commission to produce Arcelor Mittal Awards
2008 Commission to produce” Half House”for Arcelor Mittal . Luxembourg
2009 Commission to produce “Chapel “for Shanghai Sculpture Park
2011 Commission to produce Striking Blue. University of Huddersfield UK
2011 Commission to produce Apollo and Daphne and Rope Tricks. Yue Hue Museum Shanghai China
2011 Commission to produce Icheon Gate. Icheon . South Korea
2013 Commission to produce Two , Chesterfield Borough Council Derbyshire
2014 Commission for Swire Properties In Chengdu China at Taikoo Li to produce a group of marble sculpture for a new development in Chengdu city
2015 Installation of Buttress , Two and Screen Purchased by University of Huddersfield W. Yorks UK
2016 Installation of Sculpture purchased by Sir James and Lady Deidre Dyson Doddington Park Gloucester.
2017 Tall Poppies installed at Leeds Beckett University Headingley Campus Leeds
2017 Completion of ROBHOUSE museum Potries Valencia Spain
2020 Daughers Gate Installed at Leeds Beckett University Leeds UK
2020 Tre Fiori Installed at Wolfson College University of Oxford
2021 Installation of Marriage. Heidelberg Sculpture Park
Collections
Newcastle Regional Gallery
NSW Australia
Ferens Art Gallery
Kingston-upon-Hull
Henry Moore Centre for Study of Sculpture
Leeds City Art Gallery
Northern Arts
Ironbridge Museum of Steel Sculpture
Grizedale Forest
Bretton Hall, UK
Arriva – UK
Guilin Yuzi Paradise – China
Gesipa, Germany
Peel Holdings PLC. UK
Stadt Museum, Waiblingen , Germany
Menin Developments, Florida. U.S.A
Shanghai Sculpture Park. China
Chin Pao San Group. Taiwan
Arcelor Mittal . London. UK
Arcelor Mittal . Luxembourg
Chinese Sculpture Magazine
City of Icheon , South Korea
Swire Properties. Chengdu. China
Ilya Corporation Tokyo Japan
Heidelberg Sculpture Park Germany
Leeds Beckett University Leeds UK
Wolfson College University of Oxford
Private Collections.
U.S.A, Italy, U.K, China, Australia, Germany, Austria, Switzerland Japan
Articles and Publications
Rob Ward
Place Paths and Mountains , Coventry gallery Sydney Australia
Dr David Bromfield 1980
Bill Varley
Re: Guardian 1983
Drawing in Air
Sculptors Drawings 1882-1982. Ceolfrith Gallery. Sunderland. Glynn Vivien Art Gallery Swansea. Henry Moore Study Centre. Leeds. Text by Paul Overy, William Packer. Dr Terry Friedman 1983
Urszula Szulakowska
Artefactum November 1991
Rob Ward
Drawings 1977-1987.Epiphany Drawings and Sculpture 1988-1989. The Henry Moore Centre for the Study of Sculpture. Text by Nigel Walsh. 1989
Crimsworth.1995
John Penny 1994
Catalogue Notes Exhibition
Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham
Leeds Metropolitan University
Contemporary British Stone Carving 2000
Burghley House, Lincs. Text by Martin Barrett
Conventions Objects and Fields 1995
Crimswoth Paintings 1998
Urszula Szulakowska Exhibitions Catalogue
Schmidt Centre Gallery, Florida Atlantic University,
USA. Published by Stichting Het Grafisch Centrum
Urszula Szulakowska, Catalogue II Salto del Salmone
Published by Making Space
Songs 1998
Urszula Szulakowska Catalogue Published by Making Space 1998
2000
Guilin Yuzi Paradise International Sculpture Symposium. Text by Nina Jung
Six Memoes 2001
Catalogue text by Elio Grazioli
Published by Making Space
Thinking Big 2002
21st Century British Sculpture Guggenheim Museum, Venice Text by Tim Marlow and Rob Mengham
Form and Content in British Sculpture 2003
Catalogue text by Patricia Botallo
Scultura Internationale 2004
Scultura Internationale Castello Aglie . Turin Italy. Text by Luciano Caramel
Patterns 2005
Catalogue Text by Cathy Ward
2007
Toyamura International Sculpture Biennale
2007
Arcelor Mittal . Concours European de Sculptures monumentales.
Reims France
2008
Neue Kunst in Alten Garten . Hanover Germany. Text by Thea Herold
Rob Ward 2009 Reflections
Monograph. Published by Making Space. 40 years of work
Text by Claire Lilley, Sebastiano Barassi, Marc Wellman, Urszula Szulakowska , Elio Grazioli,Cathy Ward and Jon Wood
2009
Almanac of Chinese Sculpture. Published by Chinese Sculpture Magazine
Article on Rob Ward Chinese Sculpture Magazine August Issue. Article by Meng Jia
2010-12
British Library Artists Lives Life Story recording. Recorded at the Henry Moore Institute Leeds with Kirsty Gregory
2011
Alchemy in Contemp[orary Art Ursula Szulakowska
Ashgate publications
2019
Secrecy and Methods in Security Research
Esme Bosma Marieke de Goede. Polly Pallister Wilkins
Routledge Publications
Membership of Professional Organisations, Conferences, Consultancy.
Member of Higher Education Board. New South Wales Australia
CNAA Panel Member
Welsh Advisory Board on Foundation Studies
External Assessor
University of Derby
Arts Council Assessor
Combined Arts Unit
Elected Fellow Royal Society of British Sculpture
External Examiner. University of Sunderland
Elected Trustee, Royal Society of British Sculptors
Elected Fellow. Royal Society of Arts
External Examiner, Kent Institute of Art & Design
Appointed Consultant. Shanghai Sculpture Park .China
External Examiner .for Doctorate Candidate University of Newcastle Upon Tyne
Appointed Board Member European Sculpture Network
European Sculpture Network, Graz , Austria
Keynote Lecture. Sculpture in Pubic Places
Royal British Society of Sculptors.
Lecture. Attitudes to Bronze
Keynote Lecture. Teaching Sculpture. Thubron , Pasmore and Hamilton . Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Organised by Henry Moore Institute.
Organiser. Sculpture in Public Places Conference. University of Leeds. European Sculpture Network
International Conference on Design Principles and Practice. University of Chicago. Lecture on The Developing Process
Conference organiser .University of Huddersfield
Technologies of Drawing European Sculpture Network