Jane Ackroyd

Born in London 1957

Jane Ackroyd specialises in both abstract and figurative steel sculpture. She has had a successful career with numerous public and private commissions. Her sculptures can be found in collections in the US, France, Switzerland, Italy as well as the UK. Her work in collaboration with Levitt Bernstein Architects on the redevelopment of The Old Royal Free Hospital in Islington in 1993 was subsequently awarded the Europa Nostra Prize. In 1995 she received an award from the prestigious Jackson Pollock-Lee Krasner Foundation in New York for her work to date.
Her Wildebeest, which stood for five years in the Temple Quay development in Bristol, has recently gone on display at the Cass Sculpture Foundation Park at Goodwood in Sussex. while her large wall piece Moonlight Ramble can be seen in Londons Haymarket, along with Herring Gull in Limehouse just a few miles away. B.A 1st Class Honours degree from St Martins School of Art in 1979.
MA at the Royal College of Art (1980-83) where she won the Special Melchett Award for work in steel,the Fulham Pottery Award,and also a travel scholarship to Carrara, Italy.

Solo Exhibitions
1984 Kingsgate Gallery
1985 Kingsgate Gallery
1986 Gainsboroughs House, Sudbury, Suffolk
1986 Kingsgate Gallery
1987 Kingsgate Gallery
1988 Anderson ODay Gallery
1991 Anderson ODay Gallery
1994 Plantation House Wall Sculptures
1994 Kingsgate Gallery
1997 Major Retrospective, Provosts Garden, Worcester College, Oxford
2002 Kingsgate Gallery
2003 Kingsgate Gallery
2004 Celebration Exhibition, hosted by Lynne Slattery, Chelsea London

Major Commissions
1984 Wave London Docklands Development Corporation
1984 Dragon Liverpool International Garden Festival
1985 The Little Prince Greater Manchester Council
1987 Well Head Harlow Arts Trust
1990 Three Rings Ocean Village, Southampton
1992 Railings and Gates for the Old Royal Free Hospital Development, Islington
1992 Spring Rain bronze sculptures and pools, Crawley, Sussex
1992 Moonlight Ramble stainless steel, The Haymarket, London
1994 Herring Gull bronze, London Docklands, LDDC
1995 Green Dragon Yard Whitechapel
1998 Sheep Victoria Wood
2000 Wild Turkey Luther Munford, USA
2002 Owl Lord Blyth of Rowington
2004 Ornamental Gates commissioned by Lynne Slattery, Chelsea London
Numerous p...