Richard Trupp

Richard Trupp (b 1973) is a protégée of Sir Anthony Caro

He spent a year under Caro’s tutelage before further honing his craft on the works of Jake and Dinos Chapman, Marc Quinn, Edwardo Paolozzi and Rebecca Warren.

Trupp was also drafted in to assist on Caro’s landmark Millennium Bridge by the Tate Modern.

Trupp continues in the Caro vein, pushing the possibilities of sculpture forward. His work is rarely self-contained or limited to its own physical boundaries, but frequently seeks to reference aspects of the broader environmental context surrounding it.

Trupp’s own art is grounded in a deep respect for the history of sculpture though he is anything but a traditionalist as his sharply crafted pieces and emotive titles demonstrate.

Born in Birmingham, Trupp has been strongly influenced by a city that once rejoiced in the sobriquet ‘the workshop of the world.

Richard Trupp has been nominated for the prestigious Jerwood Sculpture Prize
Richard Trupp has worked with steel all his life. He transforms the miniature and mundane into the monumental and significant.
“Richard is ambitious,” noted the late Sir Anthony Caro of his protege, whose art is grounded in a deep respect for his sculptural forebears.
Richard’s signature sculp...

MA Site Specific Sculpture – Distinction – Wimbledon School of Art 2000
BA Fine Art - 2:1 Degree – Nottingham Trent University 1994 - 1997
National Teaching Fellow – Kingston School of Art 2004
Stanley Picker Fellowship – Stanley Picker Gallery 2001
Artist in Residence British School in Rome, Italy– 2004
Artist in Residence Metal West Hampstead London 2008

EXHIBITIONS, AWARDS, COMMISSIONS/ RESIDENCIES
Solo & Group Exhibitions
2019 Selected to represent Great Britain, The Biennale Project, Venice Biennale
2019 Selected Artist to complete Sculpture for 2020 London Architecture Festival, Accsys Group
2019 Out of Hours, Group show Stanley Picker Gallery London
2018 Juggernaut for London permanent installation, Norwood Park London.
2016 Lithuanian Juggernaut permanent Installation, Europas Parkas Lithuania.
2015 Juggernaut for Switzerland permanent Installation
2013 In the Making.. permanent Sculpture installation, Nottingham Trent University
2012-13 Major Installation Oxford University Natural History Museum
2012 ‘Interesting Times’ Harold Martin Botanical Garden, Leicester.K
2011 Sculpture Al Fresco, Great Fosters, Surrey
2009 Group show, Stanley Picker collection, Rose Theatre, London, UK Group – Arts Depot, London, UK
2007 Solo – Eyestorm South Bank, London, UK
Group – ‘Celebrations’ Group show, Stanley
Picker Gallery London, UK
2006 Group show Eyestorm London, UK
2004 ‘Metal’, West Hampstead, London, UK
2003 Sculpture garden, Pond Gallery, London, UK
Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
2001 Jerwood Space, London, UK
Members Show, Royal Society of British Sculptors, London
2000 S...