Richard Deacon

born 1949

Richard Deacon, ‘After’ 1998
After 1998
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Richard Deacon CBE (born 15 August 1949) is a British abstract sculptor, and a winner of the Turner Prize.

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Artworks

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Richard Deacon, ‘After’ 1998

Richard Deacon After

1998
Richard Deacon, ‘Art For Other People #14’ 1984

Richard Deacon Art For Other People #14

1984
On display at Tate Modern part of Materials and Objects
Richard Deacon, ‘If The Shoe Fits’ 1981

Richard Deacon If The Shoe Fits

1981
Richard Deacon, ‘For Those Who Have Ears #2’ 1983

Richard Deacon For Those Who Have Ears #2

1983
Richard Deacon, ‘Struck Dumb’ 1988

Richard Deacon Struck Dumb

1988
Richard Deacon, ‘It’s Orpheus When There’s Singing #7’ 1978–9

Richard Deacon It’s Orpheus When There’s Singing #7

1978–9
Richard Deacon, ‘Untitled Drawing’ 1980

Richard Deacon Untitled Drawing

1980
Richard Deacon, ‘This, That And The Other’ 1985

Richard Deacon This, That And The Other

1985
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Film and audio
TateShots

Richard Deacon Think Like an Artist

Animation inspired by sculptor Richard Deacon's responses to the question 'where do ideas come from?'
TateShots

Richard Deacon: Bending, Shaping, Twisting and Joining

'I don't carve, I don't model. I fabricate.' Explore sculptor Richard Deacon's ideas and techniques

Still image of Richard Deacon at the old brewery
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Richard Deacon at the old brewery

Richard Deacon is at the Welsh Pavilion, Ex-Birreria, Giudecca 800/G, Venice.

Features

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Anish Kapoor, ‘As if to Celebrate, I Discovered a Mountain Blooming with Red Flowers’ 1981
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New British sculpture

The term New British sculpture applies to the work of young British sculptors in the 1980s who, in reaction to ...

Matthew Perry Richard Deacon studio 8 2013
Behind The Scenes

Richard Deacon's sculptures: how are they made?

Simon Grant1 and Susan Holtham

'He wants to put things together in a certain way, and I go away and make a vocabulary for him ...

Richard Deacon, Two by Two 2010
Tate Etc

How I learned to see: Richard Deacon at Tate Britain

Simon Grant1

The leading British sculptor Richard Deacon (born 1949), who first gained international prominence in the early 1980s, is the subject ...

Tate Etc. issue 30 (Spring 2014) cover image
Tate Etc

Tate Etc. issue 30: Spring 2014

Online edition of Tate's magazine featuring Richard Deacon, Henri Matisse, Richard Hamilton and more, published 15 January 2014
Christopher Burstall A Question of Feeling 1970 BBC documentary, out-take
Tate Etc

The year of the locked room: St. Martin's School of Art

Hester Westley

Hester Westley delves into the archives of St Martin’s School of Art, and finds a project almost forgotten, a ...

Richard Deacon Interior of Niels Dietrichs ceramic studio in Cologne with Richard Deacons work including Flower for St Ives exhibition
Tate Etc

The material world: Richard Deacon

Tony Cragg

Sculpture was historically the domain of the artist-worker, armed with hammer and chisel. Now the artist may use any material ...

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