Francis Morland
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Composition
C.1965
Resin bound fibreglass
42 cms high / 16 1/4 ins high
Biography
(1934-)
Born in Norfolk in 1934, Francis Morland attended the Central School of Art from 1951 to 1952 and then, after a break for National Service, the Slade School of Fine Art in London from 1954 to 1956. A prominent player in the London art world of the sixties, Morland's work was included in the 1961 exhibition 26 Young Sculptors at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, and he appeared alongside David Hockney, Joe Tilson, Peter Blake, Allen Jones and Derek Boshier in Gerald Laing's photograph London Artists in Paris, taken during the 1963 Paris Biennale des Jeunes.
Morland began teaching in the sculpture department at St Martin's School of Art in 1963, a year which also marked a turning point in Morland's sculpture when he moved from working in bronze to using fibreglass, often finished in layers of cellulose paint. Made in around 1965, Composition is typical of his work from this period, made in resin bound fibreglass. In the late sixties his work appeared in numerous group shows, including New British Sculpture organised by the Arnolfini Gallery at outdoor locations in Bristol. He became head of sculpture at Norwich School of Art in 1968 and was given his first solo show at the Axiom Gallery in London in 1969.