Garth Evans

Place: Cheshire

Born: 1934

Biography:

Garth Evans is a British sculptor and former college lecturer at St Martin's School of Art, London. He was born in Cheshire in 1934 and studied at the Slade School of Art in London. Evans exhibited widely in the 1960s and 1970s and has been recipient of a number of awards including the Guggenheim Fellowship and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award. His sculptures are described as figurative and were known for their size and grand statements, though they became smaller and less dramatic from the late-1970s onwards. Some of his notable works include site-specific sculptures in South Wales in the early 1970s, such as a 40-foot-long unnamed sculpture in coal-black steel, which was installed on The Hayes, Cardiff, in early May 1972. A number of his works are in the permanent collection of the Tate Galleries. Evans' mother was from Pencoed, her father and brothers were South Wales coalminers.