Pete Sainty is a sculptor and theatre prop maker.

| contact |
Peter Sainty
November Cottage
27 Dobbins Road
Barry
CF63 2NN
Tel: 01446 740 153 or 07722 058112

| cv |
Born Liverpool 1943

Liverpool College of Art (Sculpture)
1960-1964
Slade School of Fine Art, London (Sculpture and Painting
1964-1967
Open University (Classical Athens)
1993

Lecturer P/T Liverpool Polytechnic
1970-1973
Lecturer P/T Wrexham College of Further Education
1971-1972
Property Master /Designer, Liverpool Playhouse Theatre
1974 -1978
Assistant Property Master, Welsh National Opera
1978-1980
Self-employed

| Sculptor/Propmaker |
BBC TV Manchester, Contact Theatre Manchester, Everyman Theatre Liverpool, Opera North Leeds, Welsh- National Opera, Royal College of Music, HTV Cardiff, S4C, BBC TV Cardiff, National Museum Cardiff, Roman Legionary Museum Caerleon, Ed Mirvisch Enterprises, Harold Fielding Productions, Lluniau Lliw Cyf, Teiliesyn, RSC Stratford, Sherman Theatre Cardiff, Playhouse Theatre Liverpool etc.
1980 -

| Commissions |
Sculpture 'Reading Piece', Heron House, Reading *(2) 1982Welsh Dragon. Graig y Rhacca School, Caerphilly 2009

| Awards |
Italian Government Bursary 1972 Welsh Arts Council Masterclass Grant 1996
Elected Associate Royal Society of British Sculptors 2002
Welsh Arts Council Project Grant.

| Bibliography |
Art in the City, John Willet, Metheun *(1) 1967 Outdoor Sculpture in Britain, W.J. Strachab, Zwemmer/Tate *(2) 1998

| Exhibited Drawing/ Painting |
Liverpool University (Solo) Walker Art Gallery (Group) 1972 Academy Gallery Liverpool (Solo) Walker Art Gallery (Group) 1974

| Sculpture |
1963
Bluecoat Courtyard Liverpool (Group) * (1) Liverpool University (Group) Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (Group)
1995
OLA Group, Old Library, Cardiff (Group)
1997
Wyeside Arts Centre (Solo)
1998
'Interflow', Red House Museum, Dorset (Group)South Hill Park, Bracknell, Berkshire (Solo)
1999
Madeley Court School, Telford (Solo) 'A Cast Landscape', Canfas Gallery, Cardiff (Solo)
2000
OLA Group, St David's Hall, Cardiff (Group) 'The Natural World', Beatrice Royal Gallery, Eastleigh (Group)
2001
Contemporary Sculpture. New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham (Group)
2003
Open Sculpture. Royal West of England Academy (Group) 'Fresh Air'. Quennington Sculpture Trust (Group) Welsh Artist of the Year Competition, Cardiff (Group) R.W.A. Autumn Exhibition (Group)
2004
'Recent Sculpture', Canfas Gallery, Cardiff (Solo) Puthall Park Sculpture Show, Wiltshire (Group) 'Art in the Garden', Harold Hillier Gardens (Group) R.W.A. Autumn Exhibition (Group) 'The Discerning Eye', Mall Galleries (Group) 2004
2005
'Fresh Air - 7', Quennington Sculpture Trust. Cupola Gallery Sheffield (Group) Millfield Open (Prize Winner)
2006
Cambridge Science Park (Group)
2007
Open Sculpture. Royal West of England Academy (Group) Drawings and Sculpture. Canfas Gallery, Cardiff (Solo)
2009
Sculpture Cymru, Canfas gallery (group)
2010
National Botanic Gardens of Wales (group - Sculpture Cymru )
A Decade of Sculpture in the Garden; Leicester University. (Group)
'Claw', Canfas Gallery (Solo)

|Statement |
Since 1980 I have made various studies of natural forms from which sculptures have slowly developed, for example the Tower series,City,Drum etc.

From an objective study of an ammonite, there developed a series of medium scale pieces (including the two-part -reliefs of 1994 - 1995) in which the reverse form has become as significant as the shape from which it has been cast. I wanted these sculptures to be sharply focussed and they also needed to be tightly resolved - thus making a mould of the clay original , working on that mould then casting it , tightening the surface of the cast, making a further mould from that and eventually arriving at a two sectioned form.

Alongside the sculpture work has run the work for theatre and display as well as commissions , and these pieces some of which are illustrated, speak for themselves.

Its precarious and perhaps naive to think that one can know what one is about; to say for instance that one's preoccupation is with natural phenomena , or even to identify stimuli. Pieces that are ostensibly about landscape may really owe their genesis to crustacean mechanics or recent sculpture history. I have always liked the way that phantasy and organic form are fused in the work of Moore and Gaudi for instance . I lke the early work of Dalwood and Paolozzi and some of the sculpture being done in Paris in the nineteen-forties and fifties byGiacometti and Germaine Richier. In 1995 I made some drawings and studies of Boccionis' 'Development of a Bottle in Space' which no doubt fed into my own sculpture and one remembers that through teachers and contemporaries in Liverpool one was influenced by constructivism and machine form. In London my drawing in particular was influenced by painters and it may be that the notion of making sculptures about landscape has been nurtured by that experience.

| ola ltd members|

bill chambers
george chambers
sally cohen
anthony evans
judy foote
chris griffin
alun hemming
keith martin
adrian metcalfe
pete sainty