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Artist Peter Burke Title For Tight Places Date 1970s object Sculpture Media Chromed steel Size To be measured Ref 595 Purchased in the 124th RWA Annual Exhibition in 1976 Other websites featuring this artist's work No websites given For Tight Places Peter Burke originally trained as an apprentice at the Rolls Royce aero-engines factory in Filton, Bristol. He went on from there to Art College and at length became a lecturer in Foundation Studies. Burke continued as a working sculptor during his teaching years and since the early nineties has solely devoted his time to his work as a sculptor, since when his work has developed a definitive and personal figurative style, his monumental outdoor works being reminiscent of an industrial impression of the human form writ large, reflecting and utilizing the industrial processes he learned in his youth. Speaking to the BBC in early 2007, Burke commented that: "Central to my
work is the idea of the human presence,. I feel we have a predisposition
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