Kenneth Armitage

(Leeds, UK, 1916 – Leeds, UK, 2002)

He received his training at the Slade School, London, and taught his speciality at the Bath Academy of Art. After the war, like Lynn Chadwick and Reg Butier, he believed in a certain dematerialisation of form in sculpture. He developed a new style with a very summary character: slender figures and protruding limbs, often in movement and generally numerous, linked by angular edges of metallic drapery. He is a modeller and creates rich forms cast in bronze, often hollow or milled, at once ugly and voluptuous. Works in the Tate Gallery, London, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New London Gallery, etc. His aspiration is, as he has stated himself, “to express a large volume with a minimum of material… a large plate, therefore in the centre, leaving the pleasure of guessing what is on the other side”.