Artists in the Collection

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Roger Ackling	Ian Hamilton Finlay	Anish Kapoor	Alan Reynolds
Robert Adams	Lesley Foxcroft	Jim Lambie	Ragna Róbertsdóttir
Kenneth Armitage	Mark Francis	Peter Lanyon	Eva Rothschild
Adam Barker-Mill	Terry Frost	Bet Low	Ian Scott
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham	Naum Gabo	Camilla Løw	William Scott
Julius Bissier	Margaret Gardiner	Steven MacIver	Sean Scully
Sandra Blow	William Gear	F. E. McWilliam	Ross Sinclair
Martin Boyce	Robin Gillanders	Margaret Mellis	Margaret Tait
Michael Broido	Douglas Gordon	Gary Fabian Miller	Italo Valenti
Stanley Cursiter	Barbara Hepworth	Mary Newcomb	Keith Vaughan
Alan Davie	Patrick Heron	Ben Nicholson	Alfred Wallis
Robyn Denny	Roger Hilton	Simon Nicholson	John Wells
Katy Dove	Callum Innes	Eduardo Paolozzi	Sylvia Wishart
Olafur Eliasson	Alan Johnston	Serge Poliakoff

Roger Ackling ↑

Ackling was born in Isleworth, London, and studied at St Martins School of Art in the late 1960s alongside a remarkable group of students that included Richard Long, Bruce Mclean and Gilbert and George. He has taught at Chelsea College of Art and has served as a Governor of Norwich School of Art and Design. He lives and works in Norfolk.

Works in the Collection

Weybourne
1996
sunlight on wood
57.5 x 21.5 x 0.8
Purchased with assistance from the National Collecting Scheme for Scotland, 2005

Voewood
1999
sunlight on wood
h: 2.4, diam: 2.7 (6 parts)
Purchased with assistance from the National Collecting Scheme for Scotland, 2005

Voewood
2004
sunlight on wood
33.5 x 32.7 x 2.6
Purchased with assistance from the National Collecting Scheme for Scotland and the National Fund for Acquisitions, 2005

Voewood
2004
sunlight on wood and mapping pin
5.7 x 1.5
Purchased with assistance from the National Collecting Scheme for Scotland, 2005

Voewood
2007
sunlight on wood with nail
15 x 15 x 4.5
Gift of the artist

Robert Adams ↑

Born in Northampton, England, Adams attended evening classes at Northampton School of Art c.1937 – c. 1946. He had his first one-man exhibition in 1947 at Gimpel Fils Gallery in London, showing abstract and organic wood and plaster carvings reminiscent of Henry Moore. Adams spent time in Paris in the late 1940s where he saw works by Constantin Brancusi. In 1950 he spent three months in the USA, where he met artists of the New York School. In 1951 the Arts Council of Great Britain commissioned him to produce a large sculpture for the Festival of Britain, and he represented Britain at the 1952 and 1962 Venice Biennales. From 1949 to 1961 he taught at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London; there he became friends with Victor Pasmore, who encouraged him towards abstraction. Throughout the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s he undertook major commissions, both at home and abroad, and continued to exhibit internationally. Robert Adams died in Great Maplestead, Essex.

Works in the Collection

Woman
1953
larch
30.2 x 9.7 x 14
Gift of Sanderson Buchanan, 1985

Relief
1955
bronze
18 x 24.4 x 2.8
Gift of Margaret Gardiner, 1979