Dhruva Mistry
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Dhruva Mistry, (b 1957) is a sculptor, born in Kanjari, Gujarat, India and who, having worked in Great Britain between 1981 and 1997, returned to Vadodara.
He studied at Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda in Vadodara from 1974 to 1981 then the Royal College of Art in London from 1981 to 1983 on a British Council Scholarship.
He is a member of the Royal Academy of Arts (1991) and Fellow of the Royal British Society of Sculptors (1993).
[edit] Works
- Sitting Bull, Liverpool Garden Festival, 1984. Otterspool Promenade, 2006.
- Reguarding Guardians, Hayward Annual, 1985
- City of Stoke on Trent: Her Head, Gilman Place, Stoke, 1985, bronze, 1 m. x 1 m. x 1 m., commissioned for the National Garden Festival 1986
- Dialectical Image Series, 1990
- River, Youth, Guardians and Object (Variations), a set of sculptures in Victoria Square, Birmingham, England, 1993
Dhruva currently resides in Vadodara with his wife Trupti and son Sumeru.
[edit] Sources
- Public Sculpture of Birmingham including Sutton Coldfield, George T. Noszlopy, edited Jeremy Beach, 1998, ISBN 0-85323-692-5
- Public Sculpture of Staffordshire and the Black Country, George T. Noszlopy and Fiona Waterhouse, 2005, ISBN 0-85323-989-4
[edit] External links
- Artist's own site
- A retrospective of his work at Another Subcontinent
- Dhruva Mistry at sculpture.org.uk
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