Richard Deacon, CBE

Richard Deacon CBE, won the Turner Prize in 1987 he is an abstract sculptor whose works are often constructed using everyday materials and he calls himself a fabricator rather than a sculptor. 

He first gained international prominence in the 1980s and his pieces utilise steel, foam, rubber, chrome, leather, marble, as well as drawings. He has had a lifelong interest in the potential of materials to reflect his fascination for communication through form.

I grew up in a period when, and went to art school when really you didn't think of it as a means of earning a living, it was some other reason you were doing it for - and, I know from my own experience that the times when I've been really stuck for money and tried to make things in order to make money it hasn't felt right and they haven't worked. So, my advice is always if you have a passion you need to follow it, Actually the advice I give is, get up early in the morning and go to work in whatever you do and say hello to people along the way. That's what I say to young art students - get up, get in early, say hello to the caretaker.

I don’t really think that shape belongs to things in themselves. We impose shape on them – we feel happy when things fall into shape.

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