Plaster artist

George Segal

George Segal was an American painter and sculptor associated with the Pop Art movement. He was presented with the United States National Medal of Arts in 1999.

Segal was born in New York; his Jewish parents were immigrants from Eastern Europe. His parents ran a butcher shop in the Bronx, and then moved to a poultry farm in New Jersey where Segal grew up. He attended Stuyvesant Technical High School in Brooklyn, as well as Pratt, Cooper Union, and New York University, from which he graduated in 1949 with a teaching degree in 1946 he, married Helen Segal and they bought another chicken farm in South Brunswick, New Jersey, where he lived for the rest of his life.

gary scott's

His work is ambitious and compelling, it succeeds in combining a blend of geometry and repetition with an intriguing organic quality; he is also an engaging speaker so I am incredibly excited to be welcoming him to the Society’s lecture programme.

Nicola Hicks's

Hicks studied at the Chelsea School of Art from 1978 to 1982 and at the Royal College of Art from 1982 to 1985.

Animals are her primary subject matter, usually sculpted in straw and plaster. This was unusual for an artist in the 80s, by which time abstract sculpture and installation art had become the norms in the art world. Hicks also works on huge sheets of brown paper on which she works up her dynamic charcoal drawings. Many of the sculptures have subsequently been cast in bronze, often with such subtlety that every fragile detail of plaster and straw is reproduced.

David klass

David Klass graduated from Pratt Institute in 1966 where he studied art and architecture. He went on to work with Theodore Roszak, and then set up his own studio in New York City. To further his understanding of the human body in 1973 and 1974, Mr. Klass studied anatomy at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons. Through his deep understanding of anatomy he developed a unique sculptural approach of teaching anatomy and has instructed other artists for over 25 years.

Sophie Ryder's

Sophie Ryder's world is one of mystical creatures, animals and hybrid beings made from sawdust, wet plaster, old machine parts and toys, weld joins and angle grinders, wire 'pancakes', torn scraps of paper, charcoal sticks and acid baths.

Barbara Hepworth

The Hepworth Wakefield opened on 21 May 2011 in the city where Hepworth was born and grew up. It had over 500,000 visitors in its first year of opening and, on 5 December 2013, celebrated its millionth visitor. The Hepworth is a new museum containing the gift of a unique collection of forty-four working models in plaster and aluminium from the Hepworth Estate, alongside the existing collection of Wakefield Art Gallery which includes a particularly strong group of works by twentieth century British artists. A book, Barbara Hepworth: The Plasters, edited by Sophie Bowness, was published by Lund Humphries in April 2011 to coincide with the opening.