Peter Sainty

November Cottage
27 Dobbins Rad
Barry CF63 2NN
Tel:: 01446 740 153 or 07722058112

Born
Liverpool 1943

Tertiary Study
Liverpool College of Art (Sculpture)
1960-1964
Slade School of Fine Art, London (Sculpture and Painting)
1964-1967
Open University (Classical Athens)
1993

Professional Employment
Lecturer P/T Liverpool Polytechnic
1970-1973
Lecturer P/T Wrexham College of Further Education
1971-1972
Property Master /Designer, Liverpool Playhouse Theatre
1974 -1978
Assistant Property Master, Welsh National Opera
1978-1980

Self-employed Sculptor/Propmaker
BBC TV Manchester, Contact Theatre, Manchester, Everyman Theatre Liverpool, Opera North Leeds, Welsh National Opera, Royal College of Music, HTV Cardiff, S4C, BBC TV Cardiff, National Museum Cardiff, Roman Legionary Museum, Caerleon, Ed Mirvisch Enterprises, Harold Fielding Productions, Lluniau Lliw Cyf, Teiliesyn, RSC Stratford, Sherman Theatre Cardiff, Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool
1980

Commissioned
Sculpture 'Reading Piece', Heron House, Reading *(2)
1982

Welsh Dragon. Graig y Rhacca School, Caerphilly

2009

Awarded
Italian Government Bursary
1972
Welsh Arts Council Masterclass Grant
1996

Elected
Associate pf Royal Society of British Sculptors
2002

Bibliography
Art in the City, John Willet, Metheun *(1)
1967
Outdoor Sculpture in Britain, W.J. Strachab, Zwemmer/Tate *(2)
1984

Exhibited
Drawing/Painting
Liverpool University (Solo)
Walker Art Gallery (Group)
1972
Academy Gallery Liverpool (Solo)
Walker Art Gallery (Group)
1974
Sculpture
Bluecoat Courtyard Liverpool (Group) * (1)
Liverpool University (Group)
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (Group)
1963
OLA Group, Old Library, Cardiff (Group)
1995
Wyeside Arts Centre (Solo)
1997
'Interflow', Red House Museum, Dorset (Group)South Hill Park, Bracknell, Berkshire (Solo)
1998
Madeley Court School, Telford (Solo)
'A Cast Landscape', Canfas Gallery, Cardiff (Solo)
1999
OLA Group, St David's Hall, Cardiff (Group)
'The Natural World', Beatrice Royal Gallery, Eastleigh (Group)
2000
Contemporary Sculpture. New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham (Group)
2001
Open Sculpture. Royal West of England Academy (Group)
'Fresh Air'. Quennington Sculpture Trust (Group)
Welsh Artist of the Year Competition, Cardiff (Group)
R.W.A. Autumn Exhibition (Group)
2003
'Recent Sculpture', Canfas Gallery, Cardiff (Solo)
Puthall Park Sculpture Show, Wiltshire (Group)
'Art in the Garden', Harold Hillier Gardens (Group)
R.W.A. Autumn Exhibition (Group)
'The Discerning Eye', Mall Galleries (Group)
2004
'Fresh Air - 7', Quennington Sculpture Trust.
Cupola Gallery Sheffield (Group)
Millfield Open (Prize Winner)
2005
Cambridge Science Park (Group)
2006
Open Sculpture. Royal West of England Academy (Group)
Drawings and Sculpture. Canfas Gallery, Cardiff (Solo)

2007

Sculpture Cymru, Canfas Gallery (Group)

2009

Since 1980 I have made various studies of natural forms from which sculptures have slowly developed , for

example the Tower series , City, Drum etc.

From an objective study of an ammonite, there developed a series of medium scale pieces (including the two-part -

reliefs of 1994 - 1995 in which the reverse form has become as significant as the shape from which it has been cast.

I wanted these sculptures to be sharply focussed and they also needed tobe tightly resolved - thus making a mould

of the clay original , working on that mould then casting it , tightening the surface of the cast, making a further mould

from that and eventually arriving at a two sectioned form.

Alongside the sculpture work has run the work for theatre and display as well as commissions , and these pieces

some of which are illustrated, speak for themselves.

Its precarious and perhaps naive to think that one can know what one is about ; to say for instance that one's

preoccupation is with natural phenomena , or even to identify stimuli. Pieces that are ostensibly about

landscape may really owe their genesis to crustacean mechanics or recent sculpture history. I have always liked the way

that phantasy and organic form are fused in the work of Moore and Gaudi for instance . I lke the early work of

Dalwood and Paolozzi and some of the sculpture being done in Paris in the nineteen-forties and fifties by

Giacometti and Germaine Richier. In 1995 I made some drawings and studies of Boccionis'

'Development of a Bottle in Space' which no doubt fed into my own sculpture and one remembers that through teachers

and contemporaries in Liverpool one was influenced by constructivism and machine form. In London my drawing

in particular was influenced by painters and it may be that the notion of making sculptures about landscape has been

nurtured by that experience.