Ant Beetlestone

Ant Beetlestone About Anarchist, environmentalist and pacifist, Ant uses his sculpture as his way of staying sane in an opportunist world that prefers novelty to quality. Tired of arguing and protesting, he `tells it to the stone`, in the hope that the people of the future understand what the people of the present do not.

Exhibition History 2000 Jerwood Sculpture Park at Witley Court, Worcs. Shire Hall Stafford – Frink School Show 2001 Stoke open – highly commended 2003 Eastnor Castle, Herefordshire Beatrice Royal Gallery, Hampshire Sir Harold Hillier Gardens 2004 Shugborough Hall, Stafford Abbey Gardens, Malmesbury 2005 British Museum – Art Medal Society 2006 Westonbirt Arboretum Royal West of England Academy Autumn Open 2007 Royal West of England Academy Open Sculpture Royal West of England Academy Autumn Open Blackheath Gallery, London Stone Gallery, Burford Open Studio Exhibition 2009 Ruskin Mill solo show - The Boatman Series

Biography / CV Ant Beetlestone (Sculptor, carver & letterer) is a sculptor working broadly in the spirit of Elisabeth Frink. Born in Hertfordshire in 1974, he was brought up in the Midlands, and studied at the Frink School of Figurative Sculpture in Stoke-on-Trent, run by Rosemary Barnett FRBS. Influenced by the school’s teaching of formalism, expression and truth to materials, he has built a body of work that is both crafted and considered. He has been principally concerned with stone and wood-carving, but has recently started working in direct plaster to cast in bronze. He still carves commissioned work, as well as producing bronzes from his studio in Gloucestershire. He has shown work in galleries and sculpture parks across the UK, and has been commissioned to produce public art. Central to his work is the relationship between drawing and sculpture. He explores this dynamic in myths and fairy tales, as explained by psychology, spiritualism and philosophy. For him, the carving of stone or wood is a largely intuitive process, which asks profound questions of the psyche. Plaster is both carved and modelled and, uniquely, it offers limitless scope for re-working. This presents exciting opportunities, as well new problems.

Artist Statement A near death experience reminds one of how fragile life is. In choosing subjects to work with, an artist needs to find things they feel strongly about. The thing I feel most strongly at the moment is sadness, because of the suffering forced on to so many lives by Global Warming, and anger, at the people in a position to do something to prevent this, and yet do not. A cultural stasis like late capitalism and post-modernism should be seen as what it is - fiddling while Rome burns.

Symposiums Caerleon

Public Works PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS 2000 Skyros: Artist-in-residence 2003 Camphill Houses, Stourbridge 2004 Stoke-on-Trent City Centre – Bethesda Churchyard 2005 Wyre Forest Visitor Centre Spring Gardens Wetland – Environment Agency initiative Standon Bowers Outdoor Education Centre: residency 2006 Elmfield Rudolf Steiner School

Qualifications / Education 1998-99 Frink School of Figurative Sculpture, Stoke-on-Trent 1994-96 Bournemouth Filmschool – Production Design

Teaching Experience TEACHING 2004 The Frink School of Sculpture – visiting artist 2004-05 The Art Academy, London – resident artist Current Sculpture classes run from my workshop in Gloucestershire

Influences / Inspiration Frink, Marini, Richier

Price Range of Work From £7500 to £7500.

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Listing of artist's works of art Grace Sculptor: Ant Beetlestone Size:1.2 m Medium: Sandstone Edition: 1/1 Price: £7500 Sculpture for Sale