British artist Richard Perry lives and works in Nottinghamshire and has been making work for public spaces and gallery exhibitions for over forty years. As a sculptor he works with various materials, primarily stone, and also works in the mediums of drawing and painting. His work is held in public and corporate collections including GlaxoSmithKline, The Boots Company, the EDA Garden Museum (Tokyo), the British Museum’s National Collection of Prints and Drawings, and his public sculptures can be found in cities across the UK and Europe.
Richard has won various awards for his public sculpture commissions, including a National Stone Federation Award for ‘Needle’, commissioned by the Jersey Public Sculpture Trust, and a RIBA National Urban Design Award as a member of the Sheffield Peace Gardens design team.
Richard’s recent and ongoing work explores the juxtaposition between organic freeform and geometric sculpture. A tension between careful planning and intuitive adjustment arises in the process of creating these sculptures, resulting in illusory forms that strive to break free from an underlying rationale. His exploration of these ideas moves between painting, drawing and sculpture, each medium informing the others and acting as a springboard for creative development. Materiality is a key concern and makes for a varied working process: his direct, spontaneous ink drawings act as a tempo change from the labour-intensive process of manipulating stone.