Alex R T Davies MRSS

Alex R T Davies has been making sculpture and other objects, mostly in metal, for the last 30 years. During this time he has exhibited his sculptures in a number of exhibitions, art fairs and sculpture gardens.

A member of the Royal Society of Sculptors, Alex’s work has recently featured Goats as an inspiration and starting point. The Goat is such a diverse animal, it has adapted to most environments, from deserts to mountains. In art, the Goat has been used from Egyptian paintings, to cultural icons, to a metaphor for agriculture, to symbolism for good and evil. After leaving art college in the early 90’s, he set up an artist blacksmith business (Red Forge) making and designing commissioned sculpture, furniture and architectural Iron work. By 2000, he started working in bronze, casting for many well known artists and managing foundries in Corsham, London and Essex. In 2008 he moved back to Surrey to further establish his own Fine Art Foundry,  Milwyn Casting Ltd, which is based close to Kingston, in West Molesey, Surrey. 

This years’ highlights as an artist have been the 10 Gram Challenge, devised and produced by Alex, a response to the first coronavirus lockdown. He invited Members of the Royal Society of Sculptors to make sculptures using 10 grams of provided wax, which was then lost-wax cast into bronze. Over 200 sculptors were involved with the results exhibited in June 2021 at Dora House (home of the RSS). Another highlight was having two sculptures, Party Animal and The Kiss, selected for the Kingston Sculpture trail. He was also shortlisted to produce a live sculpture for the UK Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai. 

David Begbie MRSS

Throughout his career David Begbie has worked predominantly on images of the human form often with an emphasis on classical subjects and partial or truncated figures. Commissions include works such as ‘ORIGINS’ for the Natural History Museum and ‘GRANDSLAM’ for the AELTC Centre Court building at Wimbledon, TRANSPOSE’ for Buddha-Bar London, and ‘AANGEL’ for the Jam House, Edinburgh. 

The transparent quality of the medium used is particularly evocative for ethereal or spiritual subject matter. The essential character of ‘AANGEL’ 2021 is androgynous in keeping with the traditional notion of an angel conceived as an asexual entity. Begbie recently revisited ‘Angels’ as a subject during the current COVID-19 pandemic, proposing ‘AANGEL’ 2021 as a protective presence looking over Kingston. In the event that the sculpture is chosen to be permanently sited in Kingston, Begbie suggests it would serve as a pertinent reminder of the current crisis for posterity.

Richard Trupp MRSS

Richard Trupp has worked with steel all his life. He transforms the miniature and mundane into the monumental and significant. “Richard is ambitious,” noted the late Sir Anthony Caro of his protege, whose art is grounded in a deep respect for his sculptural forebears. Trupp’s signature sculptures are a nod to his mentor’s industrial leanings but also a very emblematic direction of his own. He continues in the Caro vein, pushing the possibilities of sculpture forward. His work is rarely self-contained or limited to its own physical boundaries, but frequently seeks to reference aspects of the broader environmental context surrounding it. 

Successful installations are sited internationally and across the UK and in 2019 he represented Great Britain at the Venice Biennale. 

Trupp has been working in Kingston for over 20 years since first being a Stanley Picker Fellow in 2000. Currently he isHead of Workshops at Kingston School of Art, recently completing a £30m renovation on the Mill Street Building from start to finish, providing world class facilities to new generations of creative practitioners. 

Roger Clarke MRSS

Roger Clarke (b.1966) lives and works in Bath. After graduating from the Slade School of Art, he was awarded the Henry Moore Sculpture Fellowship at Winchester School of Art in 1991 and the Rome Scholarship in Sculpture in 1994. He is Senior Lecturer in Creative Arts Practice at Bath School of Art, Bath Spa University and his work has been exhibited throughout the UK, Europe and beyond.

Marigold Hodgkinson FRSS  

Marigold Hodgkinson’s practice involves several activities with different outcomes mainly consisting of exterior sculpture & site-specific installations in locations across Europe, such as Holland, Sweden and the UK. She has participated in artist residencies in Lithuania, Poland, East Berlin, Florence and India, which have entailed the creation of works relevant to ’Place-Site-Time-Location-Country’. 

Photographic work involves combining into ‘Multiplicits’ and ‘Montage with Multi-view’ photographic focus. Her background of drawing and painting often operates as an ‘in-transit & thematic travelogue series’. 

Marigold Hodgkinson set up artist and student exchanges to Poland and Eastern Europe with British Council funding, and has exhibited in Poznan and Lodz. She has also been active as part-time tutor and lecturer at several art schools and worked with an architect. 

Stefan Jovanović and Jack Hardy

Stefan Jovanović is a queer and neurodivergent architect and performance-maker, creating  neo-mythical worlds and speculative fabulations in site-specific environments. He makes work about  radical togetherness, systemic inclusion and ancestral trauma through a maximalist  aesthetic and approach that combines sculpture, drawing, dance and building. He has previously shown work at Sadler’s Wells Theatre, Dance4, Asylum Chapel, Stone Nest and Siobhan Davies Dance. He has taught at the Architectural Association, Royal College of Art, Independent Dance, and London Contemporary Dance School. He regularly speaks at international conferences that address the intersection of architecture and the performing arts.

Jack Hardy lives and works in London, an optimist with a love of carnival and play. Working between spatial design and sculpture, Jack’s work includes large and small scale toys and installations for events. His work addresses play, movement and interaction, and includes steelworks and inflatables. Jack is an associate lecturer in Architecture at Oxford Brookes and a teaching fellow at UCL. He has over 8 years of experience designing award-winning play spaces with Erect Architecture, and has contributed to GLA policy on play and childhood.