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Richard Deacon Richard Deacon was born in Bangor, Wales, in 1949. He studied at Somerset College of Art, Taunton (1968), St Martin's School of Art, London (1970-73) and the Royal College of Art (1974-77) where he gained an MA in Environmental Media. Working both on a domestic and monumental scale, Richard Deacon combines the essence of human form with elements of engineering in his precisely made structures of wood, metal and occasionally, plastics. Metals are riveted together in sweeping shapes which refer to both inner and outer parts of the anatomy, and wood is laminated, bent and twisted into unlikely ribbons and smoothed to solid perfection in more volumetric states. Public commissions in many countries have given Richard Deacon opportunities to work on an immense scale. Moor 1990 at Victoria Park in Plymouth sits high next to a bridge, and is 247 metres long. He also makes works for a particular...

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