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Kate Denton.
Kate Denton
Kate
has been a practicing sculptor for thirty years, establishing a
reputation as one of the foremost figurative sculptors in the UK.
Kate
was elected to the Royal Society of British Sculptors in 1993. She
trained in the classical skills of sculpture at Goldsmith’s College and
completed a post graduate qualification in casting.
Figurative
in style, her strongest interest is in taking the classical traditions
and reinterpreting the subject’s form, creating images that go beyond
mere representation and bring into the sculpture a sense of character
and movement. To achieve this she works in different materials such as
plaster or clay mixed with straw or pieces of wood, which are built up
then carved back and cast into bronze or bronze resin.
She has
worked both on human and animal subjects. She has completed
approximately a hundred private and public portrait commissions and has
had work included in several curated exhibitions of leading contemporary
British Art. She has exhibited broadly in the UK as well as in the US
and South Africa.
Her “Paladins of Charlemagne” figured
prominently in the “Fine Form” exhibition – a curated exhibition
arranged by the Cheltenham City Art Gallery and the Cheltenham
Racecourse to celebrate the horse in art as part of the 100th
anniversary events of the Cheltenham Festival. Her sculpture of “Gina”,
a life sized female orang-utan, was unveiled in 2011 by The Princess
Royal as the centrepiece of the new visitor centre at the Durrell
Conservation Trust in Jersey.
She moved to Lavenham Hall in
2010 where she has a studio and has converted a number of old stables to
provide a purpose built gallery for her smaller work, with larger
pieces being exhibited in the six acre garden of the Hall. The Gallery
and gardens are open by appointment at any time. She has recently
completed a life sized Suffolk Punch which has been installed in the
yard of Lavenham Hall.
 Badger's Head
Beast of Bodmin
Cocker Spaniel
 Dryad
Ella
Fine Fellow
Girl in a Polka Dot Dress
Hare's Head
Jenny and Foal
Lazy Days and Daddy's Girl
Over the Moon
Ram
Reading Boy
Running Hare
Stubble Stags
Tern
Suffolk Punch Maquette
Young Pretender
Zoe
www.katedenton.com / dentonsculpture@aol.com
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