Biography
1949 | Born in Liverpool | |
1966-68 | Lab technician at the National Rubber Producers Research Association | |
1969-73 | Gloucestershire College of Art, Cheltenham (69-70) BA at Wimbledon School of Art (70-73) |
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1977 | MA at Royal College of Art, moved to Wuppertal, West Germany | |
1979 | First solo exhibition at the Lisson Gallery, London | |
1982 | Visit to Japan for the Aspects of British Art Today, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tokyo and tour Documenta in Kassel (also in '87) |
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1987 | Retrospective at Hayward Gallery, London | |
1988 | Turner Prize British representative at the 43rd Venice Biennale Professorship at the Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf (Co-Director 1989-2001) |
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1994 | Royal academician (RA) | |
1996 | Significant exhibitions at the Henry Moor Foundation, Halifax and at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London | |
1997 | Solo exhibition at the Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota | |
1999 | Installation of new work at Burlington House, London | |
2000 | Solo exhibition A New Thing Breathing, Tate Gallery, Liverpool | |
2002 | CBE (Commander of the British Empire) | |
2005 | First Prize for Best Sculpture at the Beijing Biennale | |
2006 | Professorship at the Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf Lives and works in Wuppertal, Germany |