Garth Evans (born 1934) is a British sculptor and former college lecturer at St Martin’s School of Art, London.^[1]

Evans’ mother was from Pencoed, her father and brothers were South Wales coalminers.^[2] He was born in Cheshire in 1934 and studied at the Slade School of Art in London.^[3]

Career

Evans exhibited widely in the 1960s and 1970s including in the group exhibitions British Sculpture ’72 at the Royal Academy of Arts (1972) and The Condition of Sculpture at the Hayward Gallery (1975). He had a survey exhibition of his work at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in 2013.^[3]

Evans describes his sculptures as figurative.^[4] His works were known for their size and grand statements, though they became smaller and less dramatic from the late-1970s onwards.^[4]

He has been recipient of a number of awards including the Guggenheim Fellowship and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award.^[3]

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