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Dominic Welch Biography
Born in Taplow, Buckinghamshire, Dominic Welch has moved from a county of wood to a region of stone, settling at Drewsteignton in Devon after securing a highly-productive apprenticeship with the sculptor Peter Randall-Page for the decade from 1989. Like Randall-Page, Welch became fascinated by fruit, seed and fossil shapes, helping to create what his tutor referred to as “vessels for life” in homage to both men’s heroes, Brancusi and Naguchi. When positioned outdoors on completion, these organic forms swiftly become part of the landscape.
Developing his own distinctive style, Dominic Welch is now producing work in stone which is both fluent and fluid, as if the stone were swelling with inner life, flexing and stretching into new organic forms and structures. Exhibited widely at home and abroad, his sculpture features in many public and private collections. It is now part of many landscapes—even standing high above the breakers of Australia’s Bondi Beach.
1994 First Prize, Millfield Open. Millfield School, Somerset.
1995 TAIWAN, International Sculpture Symposium.
1996 2nd RWA Sculpture Exhibition, Bristol. Open exhibition.
1997 Young Sculptor’s Award at Manchester City Art Galleries.
1999 Sculpture in the Garden (The Pleasure of Influence), Wimborne.
In the Path of the Shadow, Geevor, Pendeen, Cornwall.
2000 20/21 Art Fair, Royal College of Art, London.
2001 Art Fair, Business Design Centre, London; 27 Cork Street, London.
2002 Phoenix Art Gallery, Exeter, Devon; On Form, Asthall Manor, Oxfordshire; Sculpture at Cotehele, Cotehele House, Saltash, Cornwall.
2003 Art Fair, Business Design Centre, London; Manchester Art Fair, Urbis, Manchester; 20/21 Art Fair, Commonwealth Institute, Kensington, London.
2004 On Form 04, Asthall Manor, Oxfordshire; World’s End Gallery, Langton Street, London; Sculpture by the Sea, Sydney Australia
2005 Messum’s, Lordswood, Bucks.
2006 On Form 06, Asthall Manor, Oxfordshire; Messum’s, Lordswood, Bucks.
2007 New Art Centre, Roche Court, Salisbury; Warren Grady Art, New Commissions, Florida, USA; Messum’s, Lordswood, Bucks
Dominic Welch 2012
Studio Publications 2012
Sculpture at Lord's Wood
Studio Publications 2011
Sculpture
Studio Publications 2010
Spring Catalogue
Studio Publications 2010
Meditations in Stone, 2009
Studio Publications
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