Jane Ackroyd

Jane Ackroyd (born 1957) is a British artist best known for her public sculptures.[1] She is based in London.[2]

Jane Ackroyd
Born1957
London
NationalityBritish
Alma mater
Known forSculpture

Biography
Three Rings (2018), Ocean Village, by Jane Ackroyd
Three Rings (2018), Ocean Village, by Jane Ackroyd

Ackroyd was born in London and attended St Martin's School of Art from 1979 to 1982.[3] She then studied for her master's degree at the Royal College of Art during 1982 and 1983.[4] In 1984 she held an artist-in-residence post in Leicestershire and had her first solo exhibition at the Kingsgate Workshops Gallery.[4][5] From 1988 she has been a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy summer exhibitions in London and has had a series of solo exhibitions at the Anderson O'Day gallery.[6] Ackroyd participated in the first Royal West of England Academy Open Sculpture Exhibition held in 1993.[6]

Ackroyd's public commissions often feature birds and animals, for example Cat at the Old Library in Harlow.[5][3] Other public commissions include Well at the Museum of Harlow, at the site of the former Royal Free Hospital in Islington and at the Haymarket in London.[3][6] The Arts Council England, the Contemporary Arts Society, the Leicestershire Education Authority and the Goodwood Sculpture Park hold works by Ackroyd.[3][6]

Awards
  • In 1983 Ackroyd won the Special Melchett Award for work in steel and a travel scholarship to Carrara in Italy.[6]
  • During her time at the Royal College of Art, Ackroyd was awarded the Fulham Pottery Award.[2]
  • Ackroyd was awarded the Europa Nostra Award for the 1993 redevelopment of The Old Royal Free Hospital, Islington, in collaboration with Levitt Bernstein Architects.[7]
  • In 1995 Ackroyd received the Jackson Pollock-Lee Krasner Foundation Award in New York.[7]

Works in collections
Title Year Medium Gallery no. Gallery Location
Cat 1983 welded mild steel 14 Harlow Art Trust Harlow, England
Chicken - metal 0589 Leicestershire County Council Artworks Collection Leicestershire, England
Dog - metal 0922 Leicestershire County Council Artworks Collection Leicestershire, England
Everything but the Kitchen Sink 2011 copper S.2011.686.CC Central Saint Martins London, England
Queen Victoria 1987 welded steel 3774 West Middlesex University Hospital London, England
Well Head - mild steel CM20_TJ_S034 Harlow Museum Harlow, England

References
  1. Turnbull, Alison (9 September 2015). "Artist Profile: Jane Ackroyd". Alison Turnbull Associates. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
  2. "Wildebeest | Sculptures | CASS Sculpture Foundation". www.sculpture.org.uk. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
  3. Terry Wyke with Harry Cocks (2004). Public Sculpture of Britain Volume 8: Public Sculpture of Greater Manchester. Liverpool University Press / Manchester Metropolitan University. ISBN 0 85323 567 8.
  4. Frances Spalding (1990). 20th Century Painters and Sculptors. Antique Collectors' Club. ISBN 1 85149 106 6.
  5. Alan Windsor (2003). British Sculptors of the Twentieth Century. Ashgate. ISBN 1 85928 4566.
  6. David Buckman (2006). Artists in Britain Since 1945 Vol 1, A to L. Art Dictionaries Ltd. ISBN 0 953260 95 X.
  7. "Jane Ackroyd". Saatchi Art. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
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