1936 Dorset. Lives and Works in West Sussex

Dan BALDWIN

1936 Dorset. Lives and works in West Sussex -

Michael Sandle was born in Weymouth, Dorset, in 1936. He studied at the Douglas I.O.M. School of Art and Technology and the Slade School of Fine Art. 1954 conscripted for National Service in the Royal Artillery. Michael Sandle has exhibited internationally and has undertaken many commissions which include the International Seafarer's Memorial and the Malta Siege Memorial. Themes of war, death, destruction, inhumanity and media manipulation are constant in his work, as he treads a path outside the fashionable mainstream. From 1961 he taught in Leicester and Coventry before moving to Canada in 1970 . From 1973 he lived and worked in Germany before retiring as a professor at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Karlsruhe and moving back to the UK in 1999 . .He was elected as a Royal Academician in 1989 - resigned 1997 rejoining 2004 and made fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors in 1994.

He was awarded 1986 the Nobutaka Shikanei Prize in the ist Rodin Grand Prize Exhibition in Japan -1987 Major Award 7th International Small Sculpture Exhibition, Budapest- 1989 Major Korn Ferry Award RA Summer Exhibition – 1995 the Henry Hering Memorial Medal by the the National Sculpture Society of America for the architecture and sculpture of the Malta WW2 Siege Memorial which was erected 1992 at the entrance to the Grand Harbour in Valletta .

Michael Sandle has work in many Museums internationally including the Metropolitan in New York and the National Gallery of Australia ,

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2012 “Michael Sandle, A Celebration”, Landsatsamt Enzkreis, Pforzheim,

Germany

2011 Michael Sandle,”Works on Paper”, Flowers, Cork Street

2009 "Twentieth Century Memorial", Dean Clough, Halifax

2008 "Twentieth Century Memorial", Duveen Gallery, Tate Britain

2007 Centenary Art Gallery, Leeds University Retrospective, Inner Bailey

Ludlow Castle, Frost & Reed, London

2005 Drawing Retrospective, DLI Gallery, Durham

1998 Sculpture & Drawing, Manx Museum, Isle of Man

1996 De Montfort University, Lincoln

1995 Drawings & Sculpture, Jason & Rhodes, London, Memorials for the

Twentieth Century, Tate Liverpool

1991 Kryzstofery Galerie, Krakow, Poland

1990 British Council Exhibition, Ernst Museum and the Műcsarnok, Budapest,

Hungary,

British Council Exhibition, OPS Park Sienkiewicza, Lodz, Poland

1989 Retrospective, Wurttembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany.

"Malta Siege Memorial", Diploma Gallery, Royal Academy of Arts,

London.

"Malta Siege Memorial", Imperial War Museum, London

1988 Retrospective, The Whitechapel Gallery, London

1984 Wilhelm, Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany

1983 Mannheimer Kunstverein, Mannheim, Germany

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2015 The Print Show, Flowers Central

2014 Reflections of War, Flowers East

2014 Selected Works by Gallery Artists, Flowers East

2014 Small is Beautiful XXXI, Flowers East

2012 100 Prints, Flowers East

2012 British Sculpture, Flowers Central

PUBLIC COMMISIONS

2002 Memorial to Lifeboatmen, Marine Gardens, Douglas, Isle of Man

2001 International Maritime Organization Seafarers’ Memorial, Albert

Embankment, London

1997 "The Viking", Port Erin Arts Centre, Isle of Man

1992 "St Margaret", The Pearl Assurance Head Offices, Peterborough

1988-92 Malta Siege Memorial, Grand Harbour, Valletta

1988 "St. George & the Dragon", Blackfriars, London

1987 "Woman for Heidelberg", Kopf Klinik, Heidelberg, Germany

1986 "Belgrano Medal - a Medal of Dishonour", British Art Medallic Society

1985 "Memorial to the Victims of a Helicopter Disaster", Mannheim,Germany

1981 "Sculpture for a Trades School", Muhlacker, Germany

AWARDS

2007 Hugh Casson Drawing Prize, Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition

2004-6 Kenneth Armitage Fellowship

1995 Henry Hering Memorial Medal (for Malta Siege Memorial) National

Sculpture Society of America

1989 Korn/Ferry Award, Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition

1987 Prize-winner in 7th International Small Sculpture Exhibition, Budapest,

Hungary

1986 Nobutaka Shikanai prize, 1st Rodin Grand Prize Exhibition,

Utsukushigahara Open Air Museum, Japan

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol

Arts Council of Great Britain

Atkinson Gallery, Southport

Australian National Gallery, Canberra

British Council, Queen Elizabeth Conference Centre, London

British Museum

Bundesmimisterium des Innern, Bonn, Germany

Cass Sculpture Foundation, Goodwood

Contemporary Art Society

Government Art Collection

Dallas Museum of Art, USA

Hakone Open Air Museum, Japan

Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston

Henry Moore Institute, Leeds

Imperial War Museum, London

Leeds City Art Gallery

Leicestershire Collection for Schools

Leicester Museum & Art Gallery

Manx Heritage Museum, Douglas, Isle of Man

Mercer Gallery, Harrogate

Metropolitan Museum, New York, USA

Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland

Muzeum Narodowe, Gdansk, Poland

Neueberger Museum, State University of New York, Purchase, USA

Oldham Art Gallery

Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter

Seattle Art Museum, USA

Sydney Bestoff Sculpture Gardens, New Orleans, USA

Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany

Städtische Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany

Staatsgallerie Stuttgart, Germany

Städtische Kunsthalle, Mannheim, Germany

Tate Britain, London

Victoria & Albert Museum, London

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