Dhruva Mistry
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is a sculptor, born in Kanjari, Gujarat, India
India
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in b 1957.
Early life and education
Dhruva Mistry , having worked in Great Britain between 1981 and 1997, returned to VadodaraVadodara
Vadodara formerly known as Baroda is the third most populated city in the Indian State of Gujarat . It is one of the four cities with the population of over 1 million...
. Dhruva currently resides in Vadodara.
He studied at Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda
Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda
The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, commonly referred as M. S. University , is a university in the city of Vadodara, in Gujarat state, India...
in Vadodara
Vadodara
Vadodara formerly known as Baroda is the third most populated city in the Indian State of Gujarat . It is one of the four cities with the population of over 1 million...
from 1974 to 1981 then the Royal College of Art
Royal College of Art
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in London
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from 1981 to 1983 on a British Council
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Scholarship.
He is a member of the Royal Academy of Arts (1991) and Fellow of the Royal British Society of Sculptors
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(1993).
Works
- Sitting Bull, Liverpool Garden Festival, 1984. Otterspool Promenade, 2006.
- Reguarding Guardians,(sic) Hayward Annual, 1985
- City of Stoke on Trent: Her Head, Gilman Place, Stoke, 1985, bronze, 1 m. x 1 m. x 1 m., commissioned for the National Garden Festival 1986
- Dialectical Image Series, 1990
- River, Youth, Guardians and Object (Variations), a set of sculptures in Victoria Square, BirminghamVictoria Square, BirminghamVictoria Square is a pedestrianised public square in Birmingham, England. It is home to both the Town Hall and the Council House, and directly adjacent to Chamberlain Square....
, England, 1993
Sources
- Public Sculpture of Staffordshire and the Black Country, George T. Noszlopy and Fiona Waterhouse, 2005, ISBN 0-85323-989-4
External links
- Artist's own site
- A retrospective of his work at Another Subcontinent
- Dhruva Mistry at sculpture.org.uk