commissioning, selling, loaning and education

The Foundation is a charitable organisation which operates by way of a rigorous commissioning process. Approximately 20 new monumental works, predominantly by contemporary British sculptors, are produced annually.

Once a work has been placed the Foundation splits the profit between the artist and the next commission thereby ensuring that it maintains its reputation as a progenitor of twenty-first century British sculpture.

To date, the Foundation has commissioned 160 monumental works from over 120 artists which have been placed in public and private collections all over the world. The Foundation has paid nine million pounds to British artists in order to further their careers.

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Marc Quinn's Siren

opening | statuephilia

4 October 2008 | British Museum

The British Museum will be showcasing six contemporary sculptors in its Statuephilia exhibition, the Museum's first exhibition of contemporary sculpture in over a decade. Two of the artists featured, Antony Gormley and Marc Quinn, are sculptors whose work is, and has been, on display at the Cass Sculpture Foundation. The ...

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Wilfred Cass with Tony Cragg's Declination.  Photography by Roger Bamber.

wilfred cass: commission impossible

2 October 2008 | Artists & Illustrators Magazine

Wilfred Cass has developed the UK's most impressive sculpture park via a series of high-profile and improbably ambitious commissions. Here the octogenarian businessman tells Angela Wintle how he spent £7 million of his children's inheritence on his labour of love. ...

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Sun's Roots II by Phillip King, I'm Alive by Tony Cragg, Venus Stone by Steve Dilworth

art lover wilfred cass commissions sculptures for olympics 2012

25 September 2008 | The Times

A British businessman is spending millions of pounds on commissioning 40 large street sculptures for the London Olympics. ...

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