Richard Deacon
(Welsh, born 1949)
Biography
Richard Deacon is a contemporary Welsh artist known for his writhing abstract drawings and sculptures. Working with a variety of materials, including steel, wood, ceramic, vinyl, and foam, Deacon’s Laocoon (1996), exemplifies his interest in the process of fabricating shapes. “I think it’s difficult to distinguish form from the imaginative ways one constructs form, so I think when it’s successful the material is present, the form is present, the structure is present, the associations are present, and the sense of meaning—or the possibility of meaning—is also present,” he has explained. Born on August 15, 1949 in Bangor, United Kingdom, Deacon studied at a number of schools, including the Somerset College of Art in Taunton, St. Martin’s School of Art, the Royal College of Art, and finally Chelsea School of Art in London. From the late 1970s onward, he exhibited his work in England and abroad, winning the prestigious Turner Prize in 1987. The artist currently lives and works in London, United Kingdom. Today, Deacon’s works are held in the collections of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, and the Tate Gallery in London, among others.
Richard Deacon Artworks
Richard Deacon
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