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'''Stephen Cox''' (born Bristol, 1946)<ref name="CASS">{{cite web|url=http://www.sculpture.org.uk/artist/77/stephen-cox|title=Stephen Cox|publisher=CASS Sculpture Foundation|accessdate=27 October 2014}}</ref> is a British sculptor, known for his monolithic public artworks in stone.


'''Stephen Cox''' {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|RA}} (born 1946) is a British sculptor, known for his monolithic public artworks in stone.<ref name="CASS">{{cite web|url=http://www.sculpture.org.uk/artist/77/stephen-cox|title=Stephen Cox|publisher=CASS Sculpture Foundation|access-date=27 October 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141027212224/http://www.sculpture.org.uk/artist/77/stephen-cox|archive-date=27 October 2014|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
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He trained at the [[Central School of Art and Design]], London, from 1966-1968.<ref name="CASS" /> and attended the sixth [[Indian Triennale]] in 1986 in [[New Delhi]], to represent the United Kingdom.<ref name="CASS" /> His style mixes Italian, Egyptian and Indian traditions.<ref name="Clark" /> He also works in wood,<ref name="Clark" /> and has exhibited at the [[Royal Academy]].<ref name="Clark" />


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Cox trained at the [[Central School of Art and Design]], London, from 1966 to 1968.<ref name="CASS" /> and attended the sixth [[Indian Triennale]] in 1986 in [[New Delhi]], to represent the United Kingdom.<ref name="CASS" /> His style mixes Italian, Egyptian and Indian traditions.<ref name="Clark" /> He also works in wood,<ref name="Clark" /> and has exhibited at the [[Royal Academy]].<ref name="Clark" />
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He lives and works in a former farmhouse at [[Clee Hills|Clee Hill]], Shropshire, England<ref name="Clark">{{cite web|url=http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2011/nov/06/room-own-stephen-cox-sculptor|title=A room of my own: Stephen Cox|last=Clark|first=Alex|date=6 November 2011|work=[[ The Observer]]|accessdate=27 October 2014}}</ref> and has a second home in [[Mahabalipuram]], India, where he also works.<ref name="CASS" />

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Cox lives and works in a former farmhouse at [[Clee Hills|Clee Hill]], Shropshire, England<ref name="Clark">{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2011/nov/06/room-own-stephen-cox-sculptor|title=A room of my own: Stephen Cox|last=Clark|first=Alex|date=6 November 2011|work=[[The Observer]]|accessdate=27 October 2014}}</ref> and has a second home in [[Mahabalipuram]], India, where he also works.<ref name="CASS" />


== Works ==
== Works ==
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* {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|1986}} |event= ''Atyeo'' |location= [[Bristol]] }}
* {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|1986}} |event= ''Atyeo'' |location= [[Bristol]] }}
* {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|1988}} |event= Sculptures |location= [[Cairo Opera House]] }}
* {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|1988}} |event= ''Song'' |location= [[Cairo Opera House]] }} (imperial [[porphyry (geology)|porphyry]] and white [[diorite]] stone)<ref>{{cite web |title=Song, 1989 |url=https://www.stephencoxra.com/new-blog/song-1989 |website=Stephen Cox |date=7 April 2014 |accessdate=10 May 2019}}</ref>
* {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|1990}} |event= ''Hymn'' |location= [[University of Kent]] }}<ref>{{cite web |title=Thank and Give event 2015 |url=https://www.kent.ac.uk/giving/yoursupport/thankandgive.html?tab=canterbury |website=University of Kent |accessdate=10 May 2019}}</ref>
* {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|1991}} |event= ''Osirisisis'' |location= [[Stockley Park]] business park, near [[Heathrow Airport]]}} (diorite stone)<ref>{{cite web |last1=Devonshire Jones |first1=Tom |title=A Geology of the Sacred: Stephen Cox Reopens the Ancient Quarries |url=https://imagejournal.org/article/6452/ |website=Image Journal |accessdate=10 May 2019}}</ref>
* {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|1992}} |event= ''Mantra'' |location= [[British High Commission, New Delhi]] }}
* {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|1992}} |event= ''Mantra'' |location= [[British High Commission, New Delhi]] }}
* {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|1993}} |event= Reredos: ''Christ the Saviour of the World'', altar and font |location= [[St Paul's Church, Harringay]], London }}<ref>{{cite web |title=The Parish Church of St. Paul Harringay, 1993 |url=https://www.stephencoxra.com/new-blog/2018/5/17/the-parish-curch-of-st-paul-harringay |website=Stephen Cox |date=17 December 2013 |accessdate=10 May 2019}}</ref>
* {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|1993}} |event= Work |location= parish church of St Paul, [[Harringay]] }}
* {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|1993}} |event= ''Mago'' |location=Fattoria di Celle – Collezione Gori, Pistoia, Italy }}<ref>{{cite web |title=Mago |url=http://www.goricoll.it/index.php?file=opere&id_cell_opera=2 |website=Fattoria de Celli |accessdate=10 March 2020 |language=it}}</ref>
* {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|1993}} |event= ''Echo'' |location= Broadgate Properties, Fleet Place, [[Ludgate]], London }}
* {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|1993}} |event= ''Echo'' |location= Broadgate Properties, Fleet Place, [[Ludgate]], London }}
* {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|1996}} |event= ''Tribute Sculpture'' |location= British High Commission, [[Canberra]] }} (War Memorial)
* {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|1996}} |event= ''Tribute Sculpture'' |location= British High Commission, [[Canberra]] }} (war memorial)
* {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|1997}} |event= ''Vessels: Adam and Eve'' |location= [[St Luke's Church, Chelsea]], London }}
* {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|1997}} |event= ''Vessels: Adam and Eve'' |location= [[St Luke's Church, Chelsea]], London }}
* {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|1997}} |event= ''Eucharist'' |location= [[Cathedral of St Nicholas, Newcastle Upon Tyne]] }}
* {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|1997}} |event= ''Eucharist'' |location= [[Cathedral of St Nicholas, Newcastle Upon Tyne]] }}
* {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|1998}} |event= ''Rajiv Gandhi Samadhi'' |location= Vir Bhumi, Raj Ghat, New Delhi }}
* {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|1998}} |event= ''[[Rajiv Gandhi]] Samadhi'' |location= Vir Bhumi, [[Raj Ghat and associated memorials|Raj Ghat]], New Delhi }}
* {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|1999}} |event= ''Faceted Column'' |location= [[Finsbury Pavement]], London}} (sandstone, pictured)
* {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|1999}} |event= ''Faceted Column'' |location= [[Finsbury Pavement]], London}} (sandstone, pictured)
* {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|1999}} |event= Tribute to Beato Surore |location= [[Hospital of Santa Maria della Scala]], Siena, Italy }}
* {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|1999}} |event= Tribute to Beato Surore |location= [[Hospital of Santa Maria della Scala]], Siena, Italy }}
* {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2001}} |event= ''Proslogion: to St. Anselm'' |location= [[Aosta Cathedral]], Italy }}
* {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2001}} |event= ''Proslogion: to St. Anselm'' |location= [[Aosta Cathedral]], Italy }}
* {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2005}} |event= Altar to St. Anselm |location= St. Anselm's Chapel, [[Canterbury Cathedral]] }}
* {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2005}} |event= Altar to St. Anselm |location= St. Anselm's Chapel, [[Canterbury Cathedral]] }}
* {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2009}} |event= Virgin Mary and Saint Midred |location= Tower Gateway of [[Lincoln College, Oxford]] }}
* {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2009}} Virgin Mary and Saint Midred |location= Tower Gateway of [[Lincoln College, Oxford]] }}
* {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2011}} |event= ''Holy Water Stoup'' |location= Canterbury Cathedral }}
* {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2011}} |event= ''Holy Water Stoup'' |location= Canterbury Cathedral }}
* {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2015}} |event= ''Memorial to [[Edwin Lutyens]]'' and ''Figure Emerging'' |location= Mayfair, London}}<ref>{{cite web |last1=Cox |first1=Stephen |title=Apple Tree Yard Sculpture Honours Spirit of Lutyens |url=http://www.lutyenstrust.org.uk/portfolio-item/apple-tree-yard-sculpture-honours-spirit-lutyens/ |website=The Lutyens Trust |accessdate=10 May 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |last=Hancock |first=Michaila |date=3 June 2015 |title=Eric Parry completes St James's Square office |url=https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/eric-parry-completes-st-jamess-square-office/8683365.article |magazine=[[Architects' Journal]] |location=London |access-date=10 May 2019 }}</ref>
* ''Osirisisis'', at Stockley Park business park, near [[Heathrow]]. [[Diorite]].
* Hymn Sculpture, [[University of Kent]]


== References ==
== References ==
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==Further reading==
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== External links ==
* {{cite book|last1=Bann|first1=Stephen|title=The Sculpture of Stephen Cox|date=1995|publisher=Lund Humphries|location=London|isbn=978-0853316756}}


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* {{Official|http://stephencox.info/}}
* {{Official website|http://www.stephencoxra.com/}}
* [https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/artist/stephen-cox-ra Selected CV] at the Royal Academy website
* [https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/artist/stephen-cox-ra Selected CV] at the Royal Academy website
* [http://www.sculpture.org.uk/artist/stephen-cox Stephen Cox] entry at [[Cass Sculpture Foundation]]
* [http://www.racollection.org.uk/ixbin/indexplus?_IXACTION_=file&_IXFILE_=templates/full/person.html&_IXTRAIL_=Academicians&person=24757 Profile on Royal Academy of Arts Collections]
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Latest revision as of 21:50, 24 March 2024

Stephen Cox
Born1946 (age 77–78)
Bristol, England
NationalityBritish
EducationCentral School of Art and Design
Known forSculpture
Websitestephencoxra.com

Stephen Cox RA (born 1946) is a British sculptor, known for his monolithic public artworks in stone.[1]

Cox trained at the Central School of Art and Design, London, from 1966 to 1968.[1] and attended the sixth Indian Triennale in 1986 in New Delhi, to represent the United Kingdom.[1] His style mixes Italian, Egyptian and Indian traditions.[2] He also works in wood,[2] and has exhibited at the Royal Academy.[2]

Cox lives and works in a former farmhouse at Clee Hill, Shropshire, England[2] and has a second home in Mahabalipuram, India, where he also works.[1]

Works

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Faceted Column (1999), opposite London's Finsbury Square

Cox's works include:

References

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  1. ^ a b c d "Stephen Cox". CASS Sculpture Foundation. Archived from the original on 27 October 2014. Retrieved 27 October 2014.
  2. ^ a b c d Clark, Alex (6 November 2011). "A room of my own: Stephen Cox". The Observer. Retrieved 27 October 2014.
  3. ^ "Song, 1989". Stephen Cox. 7 April 2014. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
  4. ^ "Thank and Give event 2015". University of Kent. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
  5. ^ Devonshire Jones, Tom. "A Geology of the Sacred: Stephen Cox Reopens the Ancient Quarries". Image Journal. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
  6. ^ "The Parish Church of St. Paul Harringay, 1993". Stephen Cox. 17 December 2013. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
  7. ^ "Mago". Fattoria de Celli (in Italian). Retrieved 10 March 2020.
  8. ^ Cox, Stephen. "Apple Tree Yard Sculpture Honours Spirit of Lutyens". The Lutyens Trust. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
  9. ^ Hancock, Michaila (3 June 2015). "Eric Parry completes St James's Square office". Architects' Journal. London. Retrieved 10 May 2019.

Further reading

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  • Bann, Stephen (1995). The Sculpture of Stephen Cox. London: Lund Humphries. ISBN 978-0853316756.
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