Laurence Edwards: Making Strange

Laurence Edwards studied sculpture at Canterbury College of Art and bronze casting at the Royal College of Art with Sir Antony Caro. After winning a Henry Moore Bursary, the Angeloni Prize for Bronze Casting and an Intach Travelling Scholarship, he studied traditional casting techniques in India and Nepal, an experience that not only influenced his treatment of form and technique, but also gave him the necessary tools to establish his own atelier and foundry.

In 2006, Edwards won the Royal Society of Portrait Sculpture Award, and became an Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors in 2012. Man of Stones was unveiled at the Sainsbury Centre in Norfolk in 2019 and in 2018, Edwards was commissioned by Doncaster Council to create a sculpture that celebrated the lives of those who worked in the collieries around Doncaster. A Rich Seam was unveiled in Print Office Street in 2021. Major exhibitions of his work have been held at Messums West in the UK in 2022 and Orange Regional Gallery in Australia in 2023. His Walking Men series were presented at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 2023.