Michael Sandle
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Early and private life
Michael Sandle was born in Weymouth, Dorset. His father was serving in the Royal Navy, and he was christened on HMS Ark Royal. His family's home in Plymouth was bombed in the Second World War, and he grew up on the Isle of Man, where his father had been stationed in 1942. From 1951 to 1954, he studied at Douglas School of Art and Technology on the Isle of Man, and was then conscripted for two years' National Service in the Royal Artillery.
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Art career
After attending evening classes at Chester College of Art, he studied printmaking in London at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1956 to 1959, where he was taught etching by Anthony Gross, Lynton Lamb, and Ceri Richards. He was also taught by Andrew Forge, Lucian Freud, and Claude Rogers. After travelling to Italy and Paris, Sandle taught at various British art schools in the 1960s. Originally a painter and draughtsman, in the 1960s, he gravitated towards sculpture.
From 1970 to 1973, Sandle lived in Canada, where he was a visiting associate professor at the University of Calgary until 1971 and at the University of British Columbia from 1971 to 1972. In 1973, he moved to Germany, and taught in Pforzheim and Berlin. He became professor of sculpture at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Karlsruhe in 1980. From 1976 to 1982, Sandle was a member of the faculty of engraving at the British School in Rome. In 1982, he was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy, and in 1989 a full academician. After moving to Devon, he returned to London in 2003.
Public commissions
- 1981: "Sculpture for a Trades School", Mühlacker, Germany
- 1985: "Memorial to the Victims of a Helicopter Disaster", Mannheim, Germany (commemorating the victims killed when a US Army CH-47 crashed during the city's Aeronautical Days on 11 September 1982)
- 1986: "Belgrano Medal—a Medal of Dishonour", British Art Medallic Society
- 1988-92: Malta Siege Memorial, Grand Harbour, Valletta
- 1987: "Woman for Heidelberg", Kopf Klinik, Heidelberg, Germany
- 1988: St. George & the Dragon, Blackfriars, London
- 1992: "St Margaret", The Pearl Assurance Head Offices, Peterborough
- 1997: "The Viking", Port Erin Arts Centre, Isle of Man
- 2001: International Maritime Organization Seafarers' Memorial, Albert Embankment, London
- 2002: Memorial to Lifeboatmen, Marine Gardens, Douglas, Isle of Man
Awards
- 1986: Nobutaka Shikanai prize, 1st Rodin Grand Prize Exhibition, Utsukushi-gahara Open Air Museum, Japan
- 1987: Prize winner in the 7th International Small Sculpture Exhibition, Budapest, Hungary
- 1989: Korn/Ferry Award, Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition
- 1995: Henry Hering Memorial Medal (for Malta Siege Memorial) National Sculpture Society of America
- 2004–2006: Kenneth Armitage Fellowship
- 2007: Hugh Casson Drawing Prize, Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition