Eduardo Paolozzi

Eduardo Paolozzi was born of Italian parents in Leith, Edinburgh, in 1924. He attended evening classes at Edinburgh College of Art (1943) with the intention of becoming a commercial artist and then studied at St Martin's School of Art (1944) and at the Slade School of Fine Art (1945-47). In 1947 he went to Paris, living there for two years, enrolling briefly at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and meeting artists such as Arp, Brâncusi, Giacometti and Léger. Back in London he taught in several art schools, whilst developing his sculpture and printmaking. In 1981 he was ...