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Ken Ford - A Brief Biography (10 Mar 2005) |
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Ken Ford was born in 1930 in Birstall, Leicestershire. He studied at the Royal College of Art, London 1950-54. Ford was awarded the Prix de Rome for Sculpture in 1955. He was Head of Sculpture at Leicester Polytechnic from 1967-88, and is a visiting lecturer at the Elisabeth Frink School of Sculpture, Stoke on Trent. He has exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum; the Royal Academy; Palazzo delle Expossizione, Rome; Palazzo Venezia, Rome; John Moores, Liverpool; Natural History Museum and the Royal Festival Hall, London. His work is held in collections worldwide. In his introduction to the Goldmark Gallery Ken Ford exhibition catalogue, Terry Cavanagh wrote: Kenneth Ford is a sculptor whose primary genre is landscape and the human figure in landscape. His passionate interest in landscape has its origins in his childhood in one of the poorer districts of Leicester. Though times were hard, he found solace in frequent trips out to the countryside to stay with his grandparents, who lived near Stapleford. The dramatic contrast between the bleak inner city streets of 1930s Leicester and the rich agricultural countryside in the north-east of the county had a profound effect on him. As he recalls: The effect of such vibrancy of plants and birds and animals was so powerful an experience that the need to communicate it became obsessive. I drew the things I saw, with the conscious aim of showing my friends in the city what I had experienced.
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