After eight years as design student, apprentice and assistant Gary established his lettering workshop in 1993. He quickly gained a reputation for the innovative content of his work which has won him numerous public art commissions over the years. His work also caught the attention of the broader art world culminating in his first major solo exhibition at the New Art Centre Sculpture Park and Gallery in 2004.
He has worked with Memorials by Artists for many years and completed two major commissions through them including the Bali Bombing Memorial at Horse Guards Road, London, (project managed and assisted by Martin Cook), and Christ Church Cloister fountain in Oxford. Both projects involved the extensive design and re-landscaping of two important architecturally sensitive sites.
In 2002 Stuart Buckle joined the workshop on a two year Memorial Arts Charity apprenticeship funded by the Jerwood Foundation, and his natural skill has been an invaluable element of the workshop ever since.
Gary continues to exhibit widely and was awarded the first Jerwood Contemporary Makers prize in 2008. That same year he won the prestigious Leverhulme Trust award for a twelve month artist residency at the University of Southampton department of Archaeology. His work is in many major collections.
Other work can be seen at: the Glasgow High Court, Little Sparta, Greenwich Millennium Gardens, the Imperial War Museum London, the New Scottish Parliament, the University of Southampton, Westminster Abbey, Glasgow Caledonian University, Eton rowing lake, Chatsworth Gardens and The Victoria and Albert Museum.
TRAINING
Norwich school of Art 1987-1990
Apprenticeship with David Holgate 1988-1992
Assistant to Richard Kindersley 1992-1993
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
East Anglian Miscellany, Snape Maltings, 2005
Musaeum, The New Art Centre at Roche Court, 2004-5
Latin Lyrics, The New Art Centre at Roche Court, 2002
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Sea Fever; Turner to Today, Southampton City Art Gallery, May-September 2010
Flow gallery, (with Alison Crowther) London, May-September 2010
Taking Time; Craft and the Slow Revolution, Touring exhibition beginning in Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in 2009 until 2011
Seafarers (with Simon Read), Peter Pears Gallery Aldeburgh, June 2009
Jerwood Contemporary makers, London and Edinburgh, 2008
Stone Riddles, The New Art Centre at Roche Court, 2008 (curated by Gary Breeze with Kevin Crossley-Holland)
Visual biographies: object, art and archaeological practice, Southampton University, 2008 (curated by Gary Breeze)
Art at the Rockface; the fascination of stone, Norwich and Sheffield 2006-7
Making Words, Bilston Craft Gallery touring exhibition, 2006
Languages, European Think Tank touring exhibition 2005-6
30/30 Vision: Creative journeys in contemporary craft, Crafts Council touring exhibition 2003-4
Presence and Absence, Crawford Arts Centre touring exhibition, 2003-4
Words Revealed, Midlands Arts Centre touring exhibition, 1996-7
Out of this World; the influence of nature in craft and design 1880-1995, Crafts Council touring exhibition, 1995
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