Angela Conner FRBS, born 1935

Born in London, Conner is a self-taught sculptor, who later apprenticed under and assisted Barbara Hepworth in her Cornwall studio. By the sixties, a fascination with the elements became central to the development of her carefully engineered kinetic sculptures. Located in urban landmarks all over the world, these iron, marble and bronze monuments incorporate and seek to mirror the water or wind’s movements and behaviours in entrancing motion. In the UK, she is also a celebrated live sculptor of intimate, figurative busts of prominent British personalities and royalty, such as the fourteen on display at Chatsworth.