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Giles Penny
British sculptor and painter
Giles Penny (born 1962) is an English sculptor and painter. He has created many public sculptures by commission, which stand in locations in Britain.
Life
Penny was born in Dorset. He attended the Heatherley School of Fine Art in Chelsea, the Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and the Newport College of Art.[1][2]
In the late 1980s he completed two portrait commissions, of Richard Branson and Anita Roddick, and afterwards became artist-in-residence at Anita Roddick's The Body Shop, creating many sculptures for the grounds of the company's headquarters in Littlehampton.[3] He has exhibited in England and France,[1] including in 2023 at an exhibition of works by several sculptors in the gardens of Ashridge House, Hertfordshire.[4][5]
He was elected in 1994 an Associate of the Royal Society of Sculptors.[1] In 2017, he was elected an Academician of the Royal Wes