George Cutts

British Sculptor

When I left the Royal College of Art, having studied figurative modelling and stone carving, I began wrapping stainless steel in carved stone, which I have continued throughout my career. The opposing materials with such diverse textural qualities interplay, emphasising my ideas. I play one off against the other, which I have taken through into my mobiles, the reaction creating optical illusions, playing with shapes in space. The inspiration and theme for all my sculptures is landscape, plant growth, light and water.

RESUME

Awards

  • 1st Prize Winner Overall 2006 International Kinetic Art Competition, KAO

  • 1st Prize category winner 2006 International Kinetic Art Competition, KAO.

  • 2006 Outstanding Award for presentation of ‘Stone & Stainless’, Olympic Park, Beijing, China

  • Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors 

  • Marsh Fountain of the Year Award. The Fountain Society, London & Marsh Foundation 

  • Elected Associate of the Royal Society of British Sculptors 

  • Elected Member of the Rye Society of Artists

  • 1st Prize Young Contempories. Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK

Teaching Posts

  • Royal College of Art - Visiting Senior Lecturer

  • Royal Academy Schools - Visiting Senior Lecturer

  • Trent Polytechnic - Visiting Senior Lecturer

  • Chelsea School of Art - Part -time Senior Lecturer

  • Ravensbourne College of Art - Part-time Senior Lecturer

  • Portsmouth Polytechnic - Part-time Senior Lecturer

Symposiums

•Invite Guilin Yuzi Paradise International Sculpture Symposium, China

•International sculpture symposium, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.

•Woodlands. Hastings Civic Council, East Sussex, UK

 

Documentaries & Publications

•Walking with Sculptors, Jeremy Isaacs Productions.

•Howard Jacobson takes on The Turner. Channel 4

 

 

 

Collections Private & Public

Private

•Lord Rothschild, Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire, UK

•Professor Hans Rausing, Wadhurst Park, East Sussex, UK

•Senator John Glenn, USA

•Crown Prince Fahd, Saudi Arabia

•The Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch collection, Berlin, Germany

•Sheikh of Qatar, Qatar

•Richard Branson, London, UK

•Susan Vaughan, New York, USA

•Omer Koc, Istanbul, Turkey

•David Tilles, Richmond UK

Public

•Storm King Art Center, New York, USA

•Castrol Museum, Castrol HQ, Swindon, Wiltshire, UK

•Dordrecht Museum, Dordrecht Park, The Netherlands

•Lord Rothschild, Waddesdon Dairy, Buckinghamshire, UK

•Ekerbergparken, Oslo, Norway

•Taikoo Li Shopping Centre, Chengdu, China

Recent Commissions

•2014 Swires Properties, Sino-Ocean Taikoo Li Project, Chengdu, China

•2011/13 Ekeberg Skultur Park, Oslo, Norway

•2010/11 Koc Holdings A.S, Istanbul, Turkey

•2008/09 Swire Properties, One Island East, Hong Kong

•2008/09 Koc Holdings, A.S, Istanbul, Turkey

•2008 Bertrand Schwab, London, UK

•2007 - ‘Interactive Artwork’ Royal Alexandra Children’s Hospital, Brighton, UK

•2007 - Elstone Hayes Associates, Light Globe, U.K.

•2007 - Private commission, Laurent Delaye, Saville Row, UK

•‘New Moon’. Water Sculpture, Venice, Italy

•‘Naxos’ kinetic Sculpture. SeaCon Wharf, London, UK

•‘Snow in Spring’ kinetic Sculpture. South Thames Region, Feltham, London, UK

•‘Tilting Feature’. Butlers & Colonial Wharf, London, UK

Exhibitions

Public Sculpture Park

•Consecutive since 1990 - Sculpture at Goodwood, Chichester, UK

One-man Exhibitions

•Contemporary Steel, Folio Gallery, Burlington Street, London, UK

•Cutting Edge, Gallery 24, London, UK

•Ben Dubose Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA

•Sculpture in Crystal, Mineral Gallery, Albermarle St, London UK

•Steel Reflections, Art in Industry, Breda, The Netherlands

Exhibitions throughout the UK and Europe

•2007 - Hannah Peschar Sculpture Garden, Surrey, UK

•2007 - Artdejarden Summer Exhibition, Rutland, UK

•The Alive & Well Dog Project, GOSHCC, London, UK

•International Sculpture Exhibition, Beijing, China

•Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy

•Mipim, Cannes Festival, France

•Royal Academy of Art, London, UK (Invited Artist)

•Chichester Cathedral, West Sussex, UK

•Almelo Biennial International, The Netherlands

•Centre for the Arts. V.B.K.D. Dordrecht, The Netherlands

•The Garden Gallery, Hampshire, UK

•Maidstone Museum and Art Gallery, Kent, UK

•Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, East Sussex, UK

•Barbican Centre, London, UK

•Slotzeist Castle, Cultural Centre, Zeist, The Netherlands

•Barcelona Biennial, Spain

•Selected to represent Sculpture at Goodwood “Art 99” London, UK

•RIBA Centenary, Olympia, UK

•Bankside, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, London, UK

•Art in Steel, Breton House, London, UK

•Best of British Sculpture. Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Art, Scotland, UK

•1st Prize Young Contempories, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK