Paul de Monchaux

Biography

Born in 1934 in Montreal. Lives and works in London.

EDUCATION
1955-1958 Slade School of Fine Art, London
1952-1954 Art Students League, New York

TEACHING
1965-86 Head of Sculpture and Head of Fine Art at Camberwell School of Art, London
1977-82 Chairman of the Faculty of Sculpture, The British School at Rome
1960-65 Lecturer in Sculpture at Goldsmith’s College, London
1958-60 Lecturer in Sculpture at the Nigerian College of Arts, Science and Technology, Zaria, Nigeria

AWARDS
2000 Civic Trust Award with Townshend Associates for Oozells Square, Birmingham
1990 The Northern Electric Environment Award
1980 Arts Council Major Award

PUBLIC COMMISSIONS
2012 Girton Column, Girton College, Cambridge
2011 Breath, Memorial Gardens, Norwich
2007 Silence, Memorial to WW2 Slave Workers, Jersey
2005 Song, BBC Churchill Memorial, The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
2001 Brunswick Square, Birmingham
2000 Enclosure, West Park, Southampton
1998 Oozells Square, Birmingham
1993 Symmetry, Wilfred Owen Memorial, Shrewsbury
1991 Basilica, Coventry Crown Court, Coventry
1990 Time Benches, Gateshead Garden Festival, Tyne and Wear, and Euston Station, London
1984 Mnemonic, Colchester Hospital, Colchester

PRIVATE COMMISSIONS
2010 Cairn, Memorial to Jeff Stinson, Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire
2000 Installation of "Table" & "Column" in Scotland in new configuration
1988 "Column" for Lord & Lady Irvine, London
1986 "Table" for Lord & Lady Irvine, London

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Formation, Frestonian Gallery, London
2019 Volutes, Megan Piper and Bowman Sculpture London
2016 Ten Columns, Megan Piper London
2013 Fixing Memory, The Piper Gallery, London

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 In Forma, Marie Jose Gallery, London
2022 and 2023 Willoughby Gerrish Thirsk House Sculpture Garden
2022 Royal Academy Summer exhibition
2021 Folds, Tristan Hoare, London
2021 and 2022 Brooke Bennington Contempory Sculpture Fulmer Editions
2020 Correspondences with Tess Jaray. Megan Piper and the Frestonian Gallery
2020 Artissima Turin, Karsten Schubert
2019 Phytopia, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery Swansea
2015 Making It, Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Yorkshire
2015 Art 15, London
2012 United Enemies, The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
2002,3,5,7,8,9,11,12,14,15, 17, 18, 19 and 2020 Summer Exhibition,The Royal Academy,London
1992 The Furnished Landscape, Crafts Council Gallery, London
1990 Gateshead Garden Festival, Tyne and Wear
1986,87,88,89 Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Gallery, London
1986 Stoke-on-Trent National Garden Festival, Staffordshire
1983 The Sculpture Show, Hayward and Serpentine Galleries, London
1979 Notices, Camden Arts Centre, London
1961,62,65,68,74,84,88 The London Group exhibitions, London (elected as member in 1961) 1960 John Moores, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1960 18 Young Sculptors, Institute of Contemporary Art, London

COLLECTIONS
The Contemporary Art Society, London
The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds