Michael Lyons (sculptor)

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Michael Lyons
Cawood, North Yorkshire
, England
NationalityBritish
Known forMetal sculpture

Michael Lyons RSA FRSS (10 July 1943 – 19 April 2019) was a British sculptor who was instrumental in the creation of the Yorkshire Sculpture Park.[1][2]

Education

Lyons was educated at

Wolverhampton College of Art (1959–1963), Hornsey College of Art (1963–1964) and Newcastle University (1964–1967).[3]

Career

Lyons was Head of Sculpture at the Manchester Metropolitan University between 1989 and 1993 and also taught at college in the US, China, and Canada. He represented Britain in Biennales in China, Argentina, Mexico and Australia.[4] His drawings and sculptures are in various collections, including those of the Canary Wharf Group, Arts Council England, the Henry Moore Institute, and the Yale Centre for British Art.[1]

In 2011, three sculptures, 'Mayflower', 'Energy Of The Mountain: Echo And Revelation' and 'Energy Of The Mountain' were stolen from Lyons' studio and were never recovered.[5]

He was a Trustee of the

Ironbridge Open Air Museum of Steel Sculpture.[4]

Exhibitions

Lyons has exhibited at various galleries, shows, and venues including:

Awards

In 1966, he featured in the Young Contemporaries in London and won a Peter Stuyvesant Prize at the 1967 Northern Young Contemporaries in Manchester. In 2006 he won the Premio Fondo Nacional de las Artes at Chaco Biennale, Argentina.[3]

In 1994 he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Sculptors.[2] He had also served as vice-president of the RSS from 1994–1997.[1] Lyons was also an Honorary member of the Manchester Academy of Fine Arts.

Gallery

  • Doves of Peace at The People's History Museum
    Doves of Peace at The People's History Museum
  • Argonaut 1909'
    Argonaut 1909'
  • At the Argentinia Bienalle, 2006
    At the Argentinia Bienalle, 2006
  • Michaelmas (1983) in the York Museum Gardens, 2019
    Michaelmas (1983) in the York Museum Gardens, 2019
  • Harvest: Demeter's Dream (2000) in the York Museum Gardens, 2019
    Harvest: Demeter's Dream (2000) in the York Museum Gardens, 2019
  • Mayflower (1983) in the grounds of York Art Gallery, 2019
    Mayflower (1983) in the grounds of York Art Gallery, 2019
  • Michaelmas (1982) in the York Museum Gardens, 2019
    Michaelmas (1982) in the York Museum Gardens, 2019

Personal life

Lyons grew up in the

mythology and cosmology.[citation needed] In 1970 he married Stephanie Kay, whom he had met while they were students in the Department of Fine Art at Newcastle University and together they had a son David born in 1975 and daughter Anna in 1978.[citation needed] In 1977 he moved to Cawood, near York where he established a studio.[citation needed
]

Legacy

In Lyon's Obituary in the Yorkshire Post,

Peter Murray wrote: “His drawings often portrayed a sensitive response to landscape which had a strong influence on his powerful sculptures, which looked at home in the landscape.”[1]

In an obituary in the Guardian he was described as: "...one of the group of artists who developed successful careers from a non-metropolitan base. Such strength of mind was the driving force that Michael and others, principally Peter Murray, engaged to create the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in 1977...so many young artists rushed off to London, and lost immediate connection with land and sky. It is this vision that Michael instinctively wound into his sculpture, while Yorkshire also gave him “the freedom to cut metal and smoke cigars”"[10]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Michael Lyons, sculptor". Yorkshire Post. 27 April 2019. Retrieved 6 July 2019.
  2. ^ a b "BIOGRAPHY". Michael Lyons. Retrieved 7 July 2019.
  3. ^ a b c d "Artists: Michael Lyons". Cass Sculpture Foundation. Retrieved 6 July 2019.
  4. ^ a b "Artist: Michael Lyons". 108 Fine Art. Retrieved 6 July 2019.
  5. ^ "Sculptures snatched from artist's garden". York Press. Retrieved 14 June 2019.
  6. ^ "Exhibition: Michael Lyons. 'Half-light' (19 June 2015–15 August 2015)". New School House Gallery. Retrieved 6 July 2019.
  7. ISBN 978-1-908326-34-8
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  8. ^ "Michael Lyons' Striking Steel Sculpture Comes to Life at Canary Wharf". Canary Wharf Group PLC. 27 February 2014. Retrieved 6 July 2019.
  9. ^ Laycock, M (25 May 2019). "Sculptures by artist Michael Lyons go on display at York Art Gallery". York Press.
  10. ISSN 0261-3077
    . Retrieved 14 June 2019.

Further reading

External links

  1. ^ "Michael Lyons: Freeze Frame | University of Leeds". store.leeds.ac.uk. Retrieved 14 June 2019.
  2. ^ "David Sweet on Michael Lyons: Machines and Myths". Instantloveland. 5 December 2018. Retrieved 14 June 2019.
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