Garth Evans

Garth Evans was born in Cheshire in 1934. He studied sculpture at the Slade School of Fine Art, London. Evans has had solo exhibitions across England and USA. He has received 18 different awards including the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award and the British Council Exhibitions Abroad Grant. He lives and works in North East Connecticut and teaches in New York where he is currently Head of Sculpture at the New York Studio School. He has had solo exhibitions across England and New York, and has works in numerous collections including The Tate, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Tate Gallery; the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the British Museum. Awards include the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship, in 1986. Teaching experience includes the Slade School of Fine Art; The Royal College of Art; St. Martin's School of Art and Yale University.

Working mostly with abstract compositions, Evans is always interested in new materials and breaching new horizons with them. He creates work from such diverse materials as ceramics and fibreglass, and is currently making some recognisable forms. His work is at once textural and emotive. Evans states that many of his works even when most abstract, are "triggers for and containers of particular identifiable memories". His constructions have a pseudo-mathematical layout and a calm air. He offsets shapes at angles, often to create one unnameable, multi-faceted whole. He has always produced drawings and collages and has recently emphasised his two-dimensional work by exhibiting watercolours. In recent years he has been involved in a number of drawing and watercolour exhibitions across the States.