Phillip King
(1934-2021), Sculptor and President of the Royal AcademySitter in 9 portraits
Phillip King was an artist of international standing. He studied sculpture at St Martin's School of Art, where Anthony Caro was teaching at the time. King was professor of sculpture at the Royal College of Art and then at the Royal Academy schools. In 1999 he was elected president of the Royal Academy, a post which he held until 2004. In 1990 he was made a Royal Academician and professor emeritus at the Royal College of Art. He worked in a variety of mediums including clay, fibreglass, ceramics and newspaper. King represented Britain at the XXXIV Venice Biennale in 1968, and in 1998 was the first British artist since Henry Moore to have an exhibition at the Forte di Belvedere in Florence.
by Michael Birt
bromide print in window mount, 2 July 1982
NPG x23470
by Anne-Katrin Purkiss
bromide fibre print, March 1993
NPG x47118
by Gautier Deblonde
bromide fibre print, June 1994
NPG x76641
Royal Academy Hanging Committee 2001
by Keith Collie
digital colour print, 2001
NPG x131189
by Dennis Toff
chromogenic print, 10 February 2009
NPG x133089
'The British Council 70 Years at the Venice Biennale'
by Julian Germain
archival inkjet print, 21 October 2009
NPG x132893
by David Vintiner
chromogenic print, 11 March 2014
NPG x139786
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