.... **********
********** .... **********
. Peter Bailey
[BOOKS] * [LINKS] * [PREVIOUS] * [NEXT]
'Serpent-Zimbabwe', 1978, laminated wood,
c.185cm high
"Bronze 2 - Untitled", 1992, bronze, c.70cm high, private collection
'Ulysses Suite, Theology', 1994, mixed media, 90x60x28cm, private collection.
"Selfportrait-The Artist's Life",
2001, mixed media,
185cm high
Peter, or 'Pete' as he was generally known, was born in 1944 in Cefn Mawr/Wrexham in Denbighshire, North Wales. From 1962 to 1966 he read Medieval English & Literature at Aberythwyth University, followed by a Diploma in Education in English & Art. Then, in 1966, he changed direction and studied sculpture at Bath Academy of Art at Corsham for two years. In 1969 he returned to Aberystwyth for five years as tutor and then fellow in sculpture. For one year he taught Art History for the Open University. From 1974 on he continued teaching at various teaching jobs until 1976, when ill health forced him to concentrate to work full-time as a sculptor. He died much to early in 2005.
His work was avidly collected from the start and was purchased by such institutions as the Welsh Arts Council, the Arts Council of Great Britain, the Gulbenkian Foundation, the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the Brecknock Museum & Artgallery Brecon, the Contemporary Art Society of Wales, Ceredigion Museum and others.
Awards: 1965 he visited Barcelona on a Gregynog Travelling Scholarship to study the work of Gaudi (thereafter he used ceramic fragments in his own work); 1968 Peter Styvesant Memorial Prize; 1975/7/9 Welsh Arts Council Artists Award; 1982 award from the Oppenheim/John Downes Memorial Trust; 1986 Arts Council Master Class Award to study bronze casting.
International involvement: represented in the Paul Getty Foundation Museum in Malibu, California; 1965 studied the work of Gaudi in Barcelona; 1981/2 mixed exhibition at the Galerie der Stadt Stuttgart/Germany; 1996/7 mixed exhibition in Ghent and Loker/Heuvelland in Belgium; was a fluent French-speaker and visited France regularly.
