Ivor Abrahams 10th January 1935

Abrahams studied at St Martin’s School of Art - 1952 to 1953 and at Camberwell School of Art 1954 to 1957.

He was apprenticed at the Fiorini Art bronze foundry in 1957 and went on to work as a display artist for Adele Rootstein.

He travelled extensively in Europe then became a visiting lecturer in Sculpture at Birmingham College of Art and Coventry College of Art between 1960 and 1964.

He has been a visiting lecturer at Goldsmiths College of Art, the Royal College of Art (Prints Department) and the Slade School of Art.

He is currently teaching at the Royal Academy Schools.

Ivor Abrahams’s first show was with Peter Blake at the Portal Gallery in 1960. He also exhibited in the landmark '22 Young Sculptors' at the ICA in 1961.

His first US solo show was with Richard Feigen Gallery in 1970. He established his international reputation with a major museum show at the Kolnisher Kunstverein, Cologne, in 1973.

He went on to have one-man shows in museums and private galleries in Europe and the United States. These include a major retrospective at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in 1984. Group shows include Art Inglese Oggi, Pallazzo Reale, Milan (1976); Silver Jubilee Exhibition of Contemporary British Sculpture, Battersea Park (1977); Landscape Prints, Tate Gallery, London (1981); British Sculpture in the 20th Century, Whitechapel Art Gallery (1982); Sculpture 93, Chelsea Harbour, London (1993); Sculpture at Goodwood (commission: 2000); Bronze, British Contemporary Sculpture, Holland Park, London (2000); Carnival of Animals, The Hague (2001). Abrahams was elected a Royal Academician in 1991. In 1992 he moved to the South of France and returned to London in 1999. He now lives and works in London and France.