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LAURENCE EDWARDS
CHRONOLOGY
1967
Born Suffolk
1983 – 1985
Studies Foundation Art at Lowestoft College, Suffolk
1985 – 1988
Studies Sculpture at Canterbury College of Art, Kent; tutors include Anthony
Caro and John Gibbons
1988 – 90
Postgraduate student at the Royal College of Art, London; studies Bronze
Casting and Sculpture with Philip King, Professor of Sculpture, and Eduardo
Paolozzi; studies casting with Sri Lankan Master Founder Tissa Ranasinghe
Awarded a Henry Moore Bursary, the Angeloni Prize for Bronze Casting and
an Intach Travelling Scholarship, enabling him to travel during the summers
of 1989 and 1990 throughout the Indian sub-continent to study traditional
methods of bronze casting and to work alongside Indian sculptors
1990
Establishes first foundry and studio at Clock House, Bruisyard, Suffolk
Starts working on Nature Morte series
1991
Exhibits Nature Morte series in the coastal marshland near Aldeburgh
1992
Works on Totemic series
Moves from Bruisyard to set up studio at Yew Tree Farm, Laxfield, Suffolk
Builds bronze foundry and establishes Yew Tree Farm Studios artistic community
1993
Shows the Nature Morte series at The Crypt Gallery, London
Starts work on Squatting Figure series
1994
Solo exhibition Laurence Edwards: Interior Motives at Christchurch Mansion,
Ipswich, includes the Squatting Figure series and Walking Man, his first
life-size bronze
1995
Starts work on the Predicament series
Laurence Edwards: Recent Sculpture solo exhibition at the Delfina Studios
Gallery, London
1996
Solo exhibition at the Hannah Peschar Gallery, Surrey, featuring the Predicament
series
Moves to Yoxford
1997
Marries sculptor Johanne Humphreys
Included in the Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery 25th Anniversary Exhibition
Produces the Snap and Keeping it Together series
Included in the Disembodied: Exploring the Human Form exhibition at the
Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts, Norwich
Sets up the first USA-UK Iron Pour workshops and symposium at Yew Tree
Farm Studios.
Exhibits in Young British Sculptors at the Beaux Arts Gallery, Bath
Works in St Petersburg and exhibits in An English Perspective at the Union
of Artists
1998
Appointed Artist-in-Residence for the Bury St Edmunds Festival, working
on Projection series
Projections: New Sculptures by Laurence Edwards exhibition at St Edmundsbury
Cathedral
Solo exhibitions at the Chappel Galleries, Essex and at Rufford Country
Park, Nottinghamshire
Included in the Artists of Fame and Promise exhibition at the Beaux Arts
Gallery, Bath
Walking Man permanently sited in landscape near Eye, Suffolk
1999
First son, Simeon is born
Exhibits in the Iron Sculptors exhibition at the Grounds for Sculpture,
New Jersey, and in the Ferrocious exhibition at the Bodyworks Gallery,
Chicago
Starts work on Stations of the Cross series
2000
Works with artist Les Bicknell on Meridian, a Millennium public art commission
project in Louth
Organises the Ferrindipity Iron Pour at Franconia Sculpture Park, Minnesota
Stations of the Cross series exhibited at the Church of The Blessed Virgin,
Woolpit, Suffolk as part of the Stations: The New Sacred Art project organised
by Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery
Solo exhibitions at the John Russell Gallery, Ipswich and the Lynn Strover
Gallery, Cambridge
Produces Surrender to the Gaze series
2001
Works with the photographer Mark Limbrick on the Panocamera Project at
the Yew Tree Farm Studios, and later creates a Panocamera installation
at St Peter’s Church, Ipswich
Shows Surrender to the Gaze series at Sculpture on the Green at Norwich
Castle, a Breaking the Mould Tate Partnership exhibition
Projection 1 installed in the grounds of the University of Surrey
Works on Standing up to Scrutiny series
2002
Second son, Julian is born
Shows Standing up to Scrutiny series in The Naked Truth, a Tate Partnership
exhibition at the Fermoy Gallery, Kings Lynn.
Included in The Darkened World exhibition at the Britten Pears Library,
during the Aldeburgh Festival, which also features the work of Sidney
Nolan, Bill Woodrow, Jonathan Clarke and Kate Giles
Exhibits at Artevent, Eindhoven , Holland
Solo exhibition at the Lynn Strover Gallery, Cambridge
Exhibits in About Face: Get Your Head Around Sculpture at The Croydon
Clocktower alongside works by Rodin, Henry Moore, Elizabeth Frink, Antony
Gormley and Tracey Emin
Starts Transcriptions series, working from the Old Masters
Sets up Gallery 26, a small experimental exhibition space in Yoxford,
Suffolk
2003
Moves studio to Butley Mills, near Orford, where he builds a larger foundry
and creates a complex of studios
Curates Land & Light exhibition at Wingfield Arts, Suffolk
Against the Tide commissioned by Ipswich for the River Gipping
Works on Organic Figure series
2004
Works on Headfuck and Stalk series
Makes Creek, his first large sculpture made out of organic matter from
the marshland landscape
Produces Creek Heads series
Messum’s Gallery, London, commissions 9 feet bronze of Predicament
1
2005
Starts part-time lecturing in Critical Studies at Norwich School of Art
Messum’s commissions three life-size figures: Kite, Hover and In
the Balance, and starts to represent the artist
Produces Studio Detritus series and Studio Still-Life series2006
Organises the Arts Council funded Shopped project with students from Norwich
School of Art
Wins the Royal Society of Portrait Sculpture Award for Grin and Bare
2007
Three figures from the Surrender to the Gaze series are permanently sited
on private land overlooking the Alde river at Iken, by the Suffolk coast
Starts to work on Giants, a new series of large figure bronzes
Starts work on Orion and Cedalion, a large-scale bronze sculpture commission
to be sited near Lourdes in the Pyrenees, France
2008
Develops idea of Organic Figures further and creates Earthed series of
half-human, half-nature figures
Major solo exhibition, Creek Men, at Snape Maltings during the Aldeburgh
Festival, includes siting of three 9 feet bronze figures among the reed
beds
First monograph about his life and work written by John Sheeran and published
by Sheeran Lock, who also feature his work on their international online
art gallery (www.sheeranlockartgallery.com)
First documentary about his work made by Aldeburgh Films, covering the
making and siting of the Giants series (www.................................com)
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