Avtarjeet dhanjal biography books

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Eleanor’s story

I originally met artist Avtarjeet Dhanjal when I was a sixth form pupil at Hillcrest School, Bartley Green where he was artist in residence and I became his muse and posed for him in the school’s art rooms for what would be the first of two life size sculptures.
In my late teens I was contacted by Avtarjeet Dhanjal and asked to model for him as he had a new commission from Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery liaising with curator Tessa Sidey (now deceased); this, I think, was in the summer of 1989.
My parents met formally with Avtarjeet before I stayed at the artist’s home & studio where the modelling was undertaken.
I had to stand in the pose for hours at a time perfectly still. Sometimes we would laugh and talk other times I chose quiet meditation whilst he sculpted the clay. The statue is life size and every single detail of my body and facial features was precisely measured with both callipers and tape measure. I met his friend the artist Frank Forster who went on to cast the clay model in bronze.
In order to achieve the mood of the piece Avtarjeet told me that my inspiration for the pose and therefore the story behind the sculpture, was “A teenager has returned to the park she use

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'Avtarjeet Dhanjal is a remarkably conniving sculptor whose works mirror our more and more pressing concerns with ecology...' Partha Mitter - Academician of Dedicate History, Academy of Sussex

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ISBN: 1-899846-11-5
96pp, paperbacked, 310 x

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Avtarjeet Singh Dhanjal

Avtarjeet Singh Dhanjal (born 10 April 1940) is a British sculptor and a multi-media artist of Indian origin^[1] whose work has been shown internationally for over four decades. He is "an artist who, nourished by the tension between the cultures of East and West, occupies a singular place in contemporary sculpture".^[2]

Dhanjal's international reputation as an artist derives primarily from his work over many years, especially in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, where as a sculptor, he works using various mediums like wood, aluminium, stone as he seeks out the relation to natural substances like weathered rocks and soil in his sculpture. His more recent works are focused on photography, installation and writing.

After leaving Art School in 1970, he travelled extensively around East Africa, gaining a teaching post at the Kenyatta University in Nairobi, before giving this up to attend St Martin's School of Art, London in 1974. Dhanjal seeks to produce art that enhances the quality of human life – by inviting silence, stillness and contemplation. He argues that, to be truly creative, the artist needs to disengage himself from the races of contemporary society and the art world itself. That the artist's quest should be to escape from t