Artworks - Robert Bradford

Robert but has been resident in Cornwall for the past eight years, (where he is well known for his large 2001 Bombus Bee sculpture at the Eden Project, and for his pyrotechnical fire sculptures on Bodmin Moor), amongst his more recent and permanent plastic toy series. Robert trained as a painter at Ravensbourne College of Art and as a film maker at Royal College of Art, but began working mainly sculpturally fifteen years ago. Robert's ideas come from a wide variety of sources, and include psychotherapeutic concepts (the artist practised as a therapist for several years). The culture and climate of the time, physical experiments with matter and things... everything from fire to paint, objects to past and present aesthetics and styles, people and other species, synthetic and natural worlds. A six metre high sculpture of Big Ben in recyclable Coca Cola cans was erected on the Southbank of the Thames near Jubilee Gardens and the London Eye on Sunday June 1st 2008. He has exhibited widely including New York, Washington, Miami, Amsterdam, Paris, Czech Republic and Bangkok and a similar list of exhibitions and fairs are planned for 2009. Robert also has work in public and private collections in England and America.