Antony Dufort
Antony Dufort FRSS (born 1948) is an English artist and sculptor. His commissioned works stand at locations in Britain.
Life
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Dufort's maternal grandmother Doris de Halpert, an artist who had studied under Walter Sickert, gave him lessons in drawing and painting. He studied history at New College, Oxford; at Chelsea School of Art he gained a diploma in art and design, and a master's degree in fine art, and he attended a postgraduate art teacher's course at Goldsmiths' College. After working as a film storyboard artist and illustrator, he began a career as a sculptor.[1][2] He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Sculptors, and a Council member of the Society of Portrait Sculptors.[3]
Works
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Dufort's works include the following:
An over-life size bronze statue of a bowler, at Lord's Cricket Ground in London, commissioned by the MCC, was unveiled in 2002.[1][4]
"Testing for Gas", unveiled in 2005, is in Silverhill Wood Country Park near Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire. It is on high ground, a former spoil heap of Silverhill Colliery, which closed in the 1990s. The over life-size bronze statue, on a rock plinth, shows a kneeling coal miner testing for methane gas. It was commissioned by Nottinghamshire County Council to commemorate the Nottinghamshire mining industry.[1][5][6]
Baroness Margaret Thatcher unveiled an over life-size bronze statue of herself, in the Members' Lobby of the Palace of Westminster, London, in 2007. It was commissioned by the Speaker's Advisory Committee on Works of Art.[1][7][8][9]
A portrait of Britannia was created for the reverse of the £2 Coin of 2015; 650,000 coins were minted.[10]
A frieze in high-relief, showing miners escaping from a flooded mine, was unveiled in Cinderford in the Forest of Dean in 2022. It is a memorial marking the rescue of 182 miners from Waterloo Colliery in 1949, and was commissioned by Forest of Dean District Council and Cinderford Labour Party. Dufort said: "When I came to the Forest of Dean about 40 years ago all of my neighbours were all miners or from miners' families."[1][11]
A memorial to the mathematician George Boole was unveiled outside the railway station in Lincoln in 2022. It was commissioned by the Heslam Trust. Boole, born in Lincoln, is shown as a teacher with two pupils.[12][13]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e "Antony Dufort FRSS" Society of Portrait Sculptors. Retrieved 23 March 2024.
- ^ "Antony Dufort" Macconnal-Mason. Retrieved 24 March 2024.
- ^ "Antony Dufort FRSS" Royal Society of Sculptors. Retrieved 23 March 2024.
- ^ "The Bowler" The Sporting Statues Project. Retrieved 23 March 2024.
- ^ "Testing for Gas" Art UK. Retrieved 22 March 2024.
- ^ Ashfield District Council. "Coal mining history" Discover Ashfield. Retrieved 23 March 2024.
- ^ "The Iron Lady commemorated in bronze" NBC News, 22 February 2007. Retrieved 24 March 2024.
- ^ Lucy Mangan. "Why Margaret Thatcher's statue doesn't measure up." The Guardian, 26 February 2007.
- ^ "Baroness Margaret Thatcher" Art UK. Retrieved 23 March 2024.
- ^ "The Rarest UK £2 Coins" The Royal Mint. Retrieved 23 March 2024.
- ^ "Waterloo Colliery Flood: Monument marks miners rescue" BBC, 27 March 2022. Retrieved 23 March 2024.
- ^ "Memorialising George Boole" The Royal Society. Retrieved 24 March 2024.
- ^ "George Boole: Statue to Victorian coder unveiled in Lincoln" BBC, 29 September 2022. Retrieved 24 March 2024.
External links
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Media related to Antony Dufort at Wikimedia Commons