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Peter Startup

1921–1976

Totemic Figure 1959
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Biography

Peter Startup was a British artist who lived from 1921 to 1976. He was a painter and sculptor principally known for his sculpture in using unusual combinations of materials and found objects, with an important contribution to the new wave of post-war British sculpture and the turn to non-traditional materials and forms.

Startup also had a career as an art school lecturer, culminating as Head of Sculpture at Wimbledon School of Art in London (now part of the University Of The Arts, UAL).

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Artworks

  • Up-Ended Figure

    Peter Startup
    1961
  • Separation

    Peter Startup
    1965
  • Evening

    Peter Startup
    1967
  • Figure with Car

    Peter Startup
    1956
  • Totemic Figure

    Peter Startup
    1959

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