George Cutts
George Cutts was born in Rugby in 1938. On leaving school at the age of fourteen he worked as a sheet metal apprentice at Goole Shipyard, Yorkshire and whilst there qualified to attend art school. He studied at Doncaster School of Art (1956-58) and at the Royal College of Art, London (1958-60). He has taught at the Royal College of Art, the Royal Academy Schools, Chelsea and Ravensbourne School of Art, Trent and Portsmouth Polytechnic, but now devotes all his time to making sculpture. He has exhibited in Europe, China and America, and has undertaken many public commissions in Britain and abroad. Cutts's sculptures may be seen in collections worldwide, including the Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch Collection, Berlin; Storm King Art Centre, New York; Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire; and the Dordrecht Museum, The Netherlands; Castrol Museum, Wiltshire. Private patrons in the United States and Near East have also collected his work. Cutts is a Fellow of the Royal Society of British sculptors and lives and works in Wadhurst in East Sussex.
Of his sculptures, George Cutts writes: 'Initially I began wrapping stainless steel in carved stone as the opposing materials with such diverse textural qualities interplay, emphasising my ideas. I am also fascinated visually by piles of bronze ships' propellers. Throughout my career, my fascination with moving elements has led me to make mobiles utilizing wind, water, light & fibre optics, and at present motors.
The inspiration and theme for all my sculptures is movement, landscape, plant growth, light and water, and inevitably the lasting visual impact of ships' propellers.'