(Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 1924 – London, United Kingdom, 2005)
He studied at the Slade School in London and then in Paris, where he became friends with Tristan Tzara and Giacometti. On his return to England, he practised a non-conformist art, which seems to be inspired by a primordial past, without reference to the human. In recent years he has become one of the leaders of the British school of “pop” art or object makers. From discarded machine parts he constructed marvellous monsters of ferocious vitality whose incredibly crowded jaws, reflecting in bronze the thousands of nuts, bolts, and other machine parts, take on the pathetic beauty of a dying civilisation. He was part of the Independent Group that brought together young painters, sculptors, architects, and critics in London at the end of 1952.
«Among the hundreds of sculptors who have emerged since 1945, it seems to me, there is only one who can claim to have invented a new style: Eduardo Paolozzi». (Herbert Read).