Paul Day (sculptor)

Paul Day, born in 1967, is a British sculptor. His high relief sculptures in terracotta, resin and bronze have been exhibited widely in Europe and his work is known for its unusual approach to perspective.cite web | url = http://www.bbm.org.uk/sculptor.htm | title = Battle of Britain London Monument | publisher = Battle of Britain Archive | accessdate = 2007-01-09]

Major works include:cite web | url = http://www.bbm.org.uk/sculptor.htm | title = Battle of Britain London Monument | publisher = Battle of Britain Archive | accessdate = 2007-01-09] cite web | url = http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article2268080.ece | title = Art that embraces a new future for St Pancras | publisher = The Independent | date= 2007-02-14 | accessdate = 2007-11-26]

* "Brussels - an urban comedy", a 25 metre long terracotta frieze in the Royal Galleries of Saint-Hubert in Brussels
* The "Battle of Britain Monument" on the Victoria Embankment in London
* "The Meeting Place", a 9 metre high bronze statue in St Pancras railway station in London.

Paul Day studied art at art schools in the United Kingdom at Colchester and Dartington, completing his training at Cheltenham in 1991. He now lives in a village near Dijon in France, with his French wife, Catherine. This Anglo-French relationship is explicitly referred to in his work "The Meeting Place", which is modelled on an embrace between Paul and Catherine, standing as a metaphor for St Pancras's role as the terminus of the rail link between England and France.cite web | url = http://www.bbm.org.uk/sculptor.htm | title = Battle of Britain London Monument | publisher = Battle of Britain Archive | accessdate = 2007-01-09] cite web | url = http://www.sculpture.net/community/showthread.php?t=5235 | title = Sculptor Paul Day's Commission | publisher = sculpture.net | date= 2007-02-14 | accessdate = 2008-01-09]
Antony Gormley singled out '"The Meeting Place" statue when he condemned the current public artworks across the UK stating: ".....there is an awful lot of crap out there." [cite news
url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_/ai_n24405203
title=Modern public artworks are 'crap', says Gormley.
author=Arifa Akbar
work=The Independent
date=6th March, 2008]

References

External links

* [http://www.pauldaysculpture.com/ Paul Day's own web site]
* [http://www.sculpture.org.uk/artists/PaulDay Paul Day] at Sculpture.org.uk
** [http://www.sculpture.org.uk/portfolio/PaulDay/ Portfolio]