Clive Duncan FRBS RBA SPS NDD
Sculptor / Teacher / Lecturer
Fellow Royal British Society of SculptorsRoyal Society of British Artists
Society of Portrait Sculptors
1973 - 1993 Principal Lecturer in Sculpture
The Sir John Cass Faculty of Art
London Guildhall University
1991 - 1993 Acting Head of Fine Art
The Sir John Cass Faculty of Art
London Guildhall University
1973 - 1993 President. Thomas Heatherley Trust
Clive Duncan was born in 1944, and his focus for the past forty-five years has been making, teaching and discussing sculpture. Following his studies at Camberwell School of Art, London, and City & Guilds of London Sculpture School, as well as having been a Sculpture Assistant to Kim James, Uli Nimptch RA, David McFall RA, James Butler RA and Cubitt Bevis FRBS, Duncan became a dedicated teacher himself - tutoring many now recognised sculptors - having recently finished as the Acting Head of the Fine Arts Department of the Sir John Cass School of Art.
His work has been exhibited numerous times since 1968 at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, and the artist has been commissioned for a number of pieces over this period, including portraits of Myfanwy Piper and Sir John Mortimer, as well as producing the Trafalgar Crown Coin for the Royal Mint. Duncan has also worked with Sotheby’s London as a Design Consultant and continues to give public lectures, for instance at the Victoria & Albert Museum and recently at the National Portrait Gallery.
Although Duncan is highly committed to trueness of form with sensitive handling for modelled sculpture, the medium in the end is but a vehicle for illuminating significant themes within the fabric of life. He quotes Gottfried Richter in reference to that which forms basis for his practice, “Art makes visible otherwise hidden cultural and psychological forces”
1944. b. London. England.
| 1961 - 1964 | High Wycombe College of Art, Buckinghamshire. Intermediate Arts and Crafts Bucks Art Major Scholarship |
| 1964 - 1966 | Camberwell School of Art, London. National Diploma in Design. Sculpture and Lettercutting. Under Sidney Sheppard and Giacomo Baraggli |
| 1966 - 1968 | City & Guilds School of Art, London. Sculpture. Post Graduate Sculpture Under James Butler RA and David McFall RA |
| Sculpture Assistant to: | Kim James, Uli Nimptch RA Master of Sculpture RA Schools, David McFall RA, James Butler RA and Cubitt Bevis FRBS |
| 1969 - 1971 | Lecturer in Sculpture, Drawing and Anatomy Heatherley School of Fine Art, London. Head of School. |
| 1971 - 1972 | Heatherley-Wilson School of Art. |
| 1973 - 1993 | Principal Lecturer i/c Sculpture School Sir John Cass Faculty of Art London Guildhall University, (now Metropolitan) |
| 1990 - 1993 | Acting Head of the Fine Art Department Sir John Cass Faculty of Art London Guildhall University (Metropolitan) |
| 1973 - 1993 | President. Thomas Heatherley Educational Trust 1993 - External Assessor for Sculpture Diploma. |
| 1993 - | Heatherley School of Fine Art, London. |
| Visiting Tutor | City and Guilds Sculpture School, Slade Summer The Heatherley School of Fine Art |
| President of the Reading Guild of Artists |
Exhibitions
Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibitions
1968 - 1969 - 1971 - 1975 - 1979 - 1981 - 1982 1987 - 1988 - 1993 - 1996
| 1968 | Glasgow Institute of Fine Art |
| 1968 | Goldsmith's Hall, London |
| 1968 | Guildhall Art Gallery, London |
| 1974 | Guildhall Art Gallery, London. |
| 1978 | Guildhall Art Gallery, London (One-man-show) |
| 1978 | Nicholas Treadwell Gallery, London |
| 1981 | Portland Sculpture Park, Dorset |
| 1983 | Playhouse Gallery, Harlow (One-man-show) |
| 1993 | Henley Management College. RBS Show |
| 1994 | Oxfordshire Arts. Barn Gallery,Culham |
| 1995 | Oxfordshire Arts. Barn Gallery,Culham |
| 1995 | Henley Festival of Music and Arts. RBA Show |
| 1996 | Henley Festival of Music and Arts. RBA Show |
| 1996 - 2007 | Royal Society of British Artists. Mall Galleries. |
| 1998 | Society of Portrait Sculptors. Cork Street, London |
| 1999 | Society of Portrait Sculptors. Cork Street, London |
| 1999 | Henley Festival of Music and Arts. RBA Show |
| 2001 | Henley Festival of Music and Arts. RBA Show |
| 2003 | Sculpture at Renishaw Hall. Selected artists |
| 2004 | Museum of Reading. The John Piper Exhibition |
| 2004 | Purchase of the Myfanwy Piper Portrait |
| Museum and Art Gallery of Reading. | |
| Prizes |
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| 1962 | The Bucks Art Major Scholarship |
| 1965 | Leon Underwood 3rd Prize for Drawing |
| 2001 | The Surdivall Memorial Prize. RBA |
| 2002 | The Scott Goodman Harris Sculpture Award RBA |
| 2003 | The Scott Goodman Harris Sculpture Award RBA |
| 2019 | Royal Society of British Artists. Nathan David Award for Sculpture |
Commissions:
PORTRAITS
Mrs Fletcher
Robert Rudd. General Manager of Sotheby's. Bond Street, London David Telfer Smollett. Croxton Park, Hunts
Patrick Telfer Smollett. St James, London.
Frederick Stenner, Shiplake Gardener.
Sydney Klugman, Artist and Art Therapist
Myfanwy Piper. Librettist and Writer. Wife of John Piper. Reading Museum Sir John Mortimer. Writer and Barrister
James Bennett
Sam Gipple.
Col. Sandy Sanford. US Army
Coins:
Royal Mint
The Trafalgar Crown
The VC Fifty Pence Piece. (Circulated) The Iraq Civilian Medal
The Trafalgar Medallion
Sculptures and Inscriptions:
The Trades Union Congress Memorial. Manchester. Westmorland Slate Birmingham Civic Centre. City Coat of Arms
Bernard Tussaud Memorial. Cadogan Catholic Church, Chelsea. Insignia. Army. Lark Hill. Royal Artillery
Royal Standard. Royal Courts of Law. Abu Dharbi
Thomas More Statue Base. Chelsea Old Church, Embankment. Sculptor (Cubitt Bevis FRBS)
The Snowdrop Bronze Figure. Snowdrop Garden, High Wycombe, Bucks. The Child Bereavement Charity.
Exhibition Design Consultancy:
Sothebys Bond Street, London
The Portland Sculpture Park, Dorset.
Exhibitions Designed for Sothebys:
MAN IN SPACE
A retrospective exhibition of the work of Raymond Lowey including his work for the NASA Space Programme.
The interiors of the Saturn and Shuttle vehicles.
TREASURES POSSESSIONS
Works of art, furniture and ceramics from the great houses in Britain. The Historic Houses Association
Public Lectures:
FROM LOST WAX TO FOUND BRONZE
The Victoria and Albert Museum Gallery Talk and Film
FASHION, FETISHISM AND FINE ART
London Guildhall University
THE HUMAN FIGURE AS SCULPTURE, OBJECT AND METAPHOR
The City and Guilds Sculpture Sculpture
The Heatherley School of Fine Art
SCULPTURE AND OBJECT CONSCIOUSNESS
The Slade Sculpture Summer School
The Heatherley School of Fine Art
PORTRAIT SCULPTURE
The National Portrait Gallery, London. For the Society of Portrait Sculptors
GALLERY TALK FOR SPS
British Museum:'Greek and Roman Portraits'
Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford: 'The Mask'
Conferences:
A PLACE FOR SCULPTURE SITE SPECIFIC ART
Kingston Polytechnic Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
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