The Cass Sculpture Foundation is a charity and outdoor sculpture park based in Goodwood in West Sussex

West Sussex

West Sussex is a county in the south of England, bordering onto East Sussex , Hampshire and Surrey. The county of Sussex has been divided into East and West since the 12th century, and obtained separate county councils in 1888, but it remained a single ceremonial county until 1974 and the coming...

, England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

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Founding and funding

Established by Wilfred Cass

Wilfred Cass

Wilfred Cass CBE FRSA co-founded the Cass Sculpture Foundation.-Biography:Wilfred was born in Berlin and comes from the famous Cassirer family. His great uncle, Paul Cassirer, was an important dealer for the impressionists in Europe...

 and Jeannette Cass in 1992, the Foundation's key objective is to enhance the general public's enjoyment and appreciation of the strength and quality of twenty-first century British sculpture

Sculpture

Sculpture is three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard materials—typically stone such as marble—or metal, glass, or wood. Softer materials can also be used, such as clay, textiles, plastics, polymers and softer metals...

. The Foundation is self-funding, solely reliant on sales of commissioned sculpture, books and visitor entrance fees.

Trustees

• Wilfred Cass
  Wilfred Cass
  Wilfred Cass CBE FRSA co-founded the Cass Sculpture Foundation.-Biography:Wilfred was born in Berlin and comes from the famous Cassirer family. His great uncle, Paul Cassirer, was an important dealer for the impressionists in Europe...
  
  
• Mark Cass — Director of Cass Art, London
• Jeannette Cass
• Sir Michael Peat
  Michael Peat
  Sir Michael Charles Gerrard Peat, GCVO was the Principal Private Secretary to Charles, Prince of Wales and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall between 2002 and 2011.-Life and career:...
  
   — Private secretary to Charles, Prince of Wales
  Charles, Prince of Wales
  Prince Charles, Prince of Wales is the heir apparent and eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Since 1958 his major title has been His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales. In Scotland he is additionally known as The Duke of Rothesay...
  
  
• Earl of March & Kinrara
  Charles Gordon-Lennox, Earl of March and Kinrara
  Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, Earl of March and Kinrara is the heir apparent of the 10th Duke of Richmond, 10th Duke of Lennox and 5th Duke of Gordon...
  
  
• The Hon. Anna Somers Cocks — General Editoral Director of The Art Newspaper
  The Art Newspaper
  The Art Newspaper is a monthly newspaper about the visual arts based in London.It is published in a newspaper, rather than a magazine, format...
  
  
• Lewis Biggs — Director/CEO of Liverpool Biennial
  Liverpool Biennial
  Liverpool Biennial is a British international festival of contemporary art held in Liverpool. The festival comprises the International Exhibition, the John Moores Painting Prize, the Bloomberg New Contemporaries Exhibition and the Independents Biennial....
  
  
• Tony Cragg
  Tony Cragg
  Tony Cragg is a British visual artist specialized in sculpture. He is currently the director of the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.-Early life:Cragg was born in Liverpool in 1949...
  
   — sculptor
• James Bidwell — former Chief Executive of Visit London

Commissioning

The Foundation operates by way of a sculpture commissioning process. New monumental works, predominantly by contemporary British sculptors, are commissioned and displayed in the Cass Sculpture Foundation's grounds in Goodwood, West Sussex. The Foundation’s charitable objectives are met through the sale and loan of its sculptures. Once a work has been sold the Foundation splits the profit between the artist and the next commission thereby ensuring that it maintains a rolling collection of new works.

The commissioning process can take between 1 and 5 years from conception to completion. During the process the artists contribute a maquette

Maquette

A maquette is a small scale model or rough draft of an unfinished architectural work or a sculpture...

 and works on paper to the Foundation's archive for educational purposes

Through meeting fabrication costs, and other additional costs (including installation and marketing), the Foundation funds artists to work on a very large scale making works several meters high. The Foundation encourages pioneering and experimental works that challenge the creative processes of each artist in order to further their careers.

Artists

Sculptors displaying works at the Cass Sculpture Foundation have included: Kenneth Armitage

Kenneth Armitage

William Kenneth Armitage CBE was a British sculptor known for his semiabstract bronzes.-Biography:...

, Anthony Caro

Anthony Caro

Sir Anthony Alfred Caro, OM, CBE is an English abstract sculptor whose work is characterised by assemblages of metal using 'found' industrial objects.-Background and early life:...

, Lynn Chadwick

Lynn Chadwick

Lynn Russell Chadwick CBE was an English artist and sculptor trained as an architectural draughtsman,but began producing metal mobile sculpture during the 1940s. Chadwick was born in London and went to Merchant Taylor's School.Chadwick was commissioned to produce 3 works for the 1951 Festival of...

, Tony Cragg

Tony Cragg

Tony Cragg is a British visual artist specialized in sculpture. He is currently the director of the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.-Early life:Cragg was born in Liverpool in 1949...

, Paul Day

Paul Day (sculptor)

Paul Day, born in 1967, is a British sculptor. His high-relief sculptures in terracotta, resin, and bronze have been exhibited widely in Europe and his work is known for its unusual approach to perspective.Major works include:...

, Richard Deacon, Elisabeth Frink

Elisabeth Frink

Dame Elisabeth Jean Frink, DBE, CH, RA was an English sculptor and printmaker...

, Andy Goldsworthy

Andy Goldsworthy

Andy Goldsworthy, OBE is a British sculptor, photographer and environmentalist producing site-specific sculpture and land art situated in natural and urban settings. He lives and works in Scotland.-Life and career:The son of F...

, Thomas Heatherwick

Thomas Heatherwick

Thomas Heatherwick is an English designer known for innovative use of engineering and materials in public monuments and sculptures...

, Shirazeh Houshiary

Shirazeh Houshiary

Shirazeh Houshiary is an Iranian installation artist and sculptor. She is a former Turner Prize nominee, and lives and works in London.-Life and work:Shirazeh Houshiary left her native country of Iran in 1973...

, Allen Jones

Allen Jones (sculptor)

Allen Jones RA is a British pop artist, best known for his sculptures. He lives and works in London.Jones was born in Southampton and from 1955 to 1961 studied at the Hornsey College of Art...

, Phillip King, Bryan Kneale

Bryan Kneale

Bryan Kneale RA is a Manx artist and sculptor, described by BBC News Online as "one of the Isle of Man's best known artists."-Biography:...

, Eduardo Paolozzi

Eduardo Paolozzi

Sir Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi, KBE, RA , was a Scottish sculptor and artist. He was a major figure in the international art sphere, while, working on his own interpretation and vision of the world. Paolozzi investigated how we can fit into the modern world to resemble our fragmented civilization...

, Marc Quinn

Marc Quinn

Marc Quinn is a British artist and part of the group known as Britartists or YBAs . He is known for Alison Lapper Pregnant , Self , and Garden .He is one of the Young British...

, Sarah Staton, Kiki Smith

Kiki Smith

Kiki Smith is an American artist classified as a feminist artist, a movement with beginnings in the twentieth century...

, Gavin Turk

Gavin Turk

Gavin Turk is a British artist and one of the Young British Artists . He often uses his own image in life-size sculptures of famous people.-Life and work:...

, Richard Wentworth, Rachel Whiteread

Rachel Whiteread

Rachel Whiteread, CBE is an English artist, best known for her sculptures, which typically take the form of casts. She won the annual Turner Prize in 1993—the first woman to win the prize....

, Bill Woodrow

Bill Woodrow

Bill Woodrow is a British sculptor.Woodrow was one of a number of British sculptors to emerge in the late 1970s, the others including Richard Deacon and Tony Cragg....

, Manfred Kielnhofer

Manfred Kielnhofer

Manfred Kielnhofer is an Austrian painter, sculptor and Photographer.- Life :Kielnhofer visited the technical College Linz where he took his final exam in 1995. he was engaged with technique and design and art on building lead him to his special way of art. Since 2000 he lives as an free artist in...

 and David Worthington.

Visiting

The sculpture park is open seasonally, from April to October. There is free parking on site and disabled access.

External links

• Cass Sculpture Foundation website