Barry Flanagan
Barry Flanagan’s innumerable contributions to and achievements in the history of sculpture, as well as his selection as the representative of Britain at the 40th Venice Biennale in 1982 and his election to the Royal Academy of Arts and recognition with an OBE in 1991, substantiate his position as one of Britain’s most important and innovative sculptors. Born in Prestatyn, North Wales, in 1941, Flanagan studied architecture at Birmingham College of Arts and Crafts and graduated from St. Martin’s School of Art in London on the Vocational Diploma in Sculpture in 1966, and he taught at St. Martin’s School of Art and the Central School of Arts and Crafts between 1967 and 1971.
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