ANDREW STONYER RWA
Date of Birth: 11 October 1944
Place: Sibbertoft, Northants
Profession: Sculptor
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Andrew Stonyer studied at Northampton School of Art and took his BA and Postgraduate Study at Loughborough College of Art and Design between 1963 and 1967. From 1969 to 1972 he took an AADip Arch at the Architectural Association School of Architecture and between 1975 and 1978 completed a PHD entitled The Development of Kinetic Sculpture by the Utilisation of Solar Energy, at Leicester Polytechnic and the Slade School of Fine Art University College, London. He has taught Architecture at Leeds Polytechnic from 1973 to 1975 and later became Assistant Professor in Fine Art and Coordinator of Studies at Concordia University, Montreal up to 1986 when he took up the post of Assistant Professor in Architecture at Carleton University, Ottawa, between 1986 and 1988. From 1990 and 1994 he was Head of Fine Art at Falmouth College of Arts and is presently Professor in Fine Art at Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education as well as Visiting Professor in Fine Art at Mimar Sinan University, Istanbul. He has received several arts awards, including in recent years a 1995 a South West Arts, Visual Arts Award, and in 2000 an Arts and Humanities Research Board Small Grant in the Arts Award.
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Andrew Stonyer has exhibited widely in Britain and abroad. In 1971 he had a solo show at the Architectural Association in London, in 1990 he showed with the London Group in the Gulbenkian Gallery in the Royal College of Art. His work has been included in group exhibitions at the Newlyn Orion Gallery Penzance, Atkinson Gallery, Millfield, the Royal Academy of Art, Barbican Centre, London, the Cairn Gallery, Nailsworth and in 2000 in a national sculpture exhibition at Gloucester Cathedral and Malmesbury Abbey. In 1999 he was included in 'Three Academicians' at the Royal West of England Academy. He has also received many commissions in Canada and England the last being designed for the Cheltenham Racecourse commissioned by Smiths Industries.
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Commenting on the influences upon his work he names:
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'Islamic Art and Architecture, particularly Seljuk and early Ottoman….this architecture interests me because of its debt to mathematics and geometry and how the latter can become a central feature in the ordering of artistic form, society and our relationship to the cosmos…..In contemporary terms the sculptors I have a high regard for are Eduardo Chillida, Richard Serra and the late Ellsworth Kelly.'
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