denny Architectural Art & Design

FIND OUT MORE AT : www.rightshighway.com Robert Erskine was born in London. From an early age he displayed an enquiring disproportionate disposition towards all things mechanical. At 4 years of age he successfully locked, without keys, the family's late 50's Kelvinator fridge and aged 6 he started dismantling the family car. He then progressed to using his father's medical instruments, (his father was a doctor and none too pleased), as stone carving tools and a personal turning point took place in 1967, aged13, he was taken to St Paul de Vence, Provence, to visit the Maeght Art Foundation. The exhibition was of paintings by Marc Chagall and a memorial exhibition of sculpture by Giacometti, who had recently died. Enquiring as to the meaning of a huge banner across the road to the museum proclaiming the word 'SCULPTURE', he was told to go inside to see. The exhibition confirmed that what he wanted to do was 'make sculpture'. At high school he had his first exhibition, which consisted of 8 large abstract carved blocks of plaster. After completing high school he studied sculpture at Kingston School of Art and Design, Kingston Polytechnic, gaining a BA(Hons) degree in fine art sculpture, and completed post-graduate studies in sculpture, gaining an MA in fine art sculpture, under Professor Reg Butler at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College, London. Trained in stone carving, ceramics, drawing, metal working, and welding, Robert often works in wrought and welded ...