Photograph of the Month - July 2009

Past display archive
1 July - 31 July 2009

Room 39

Free

Alexander Stoddart, by Rob Ball, 26 April 2007 - NPG x132231 - © Rob Ball

Alexander Stoddart
by Rob Ball
26 April 2007
NPG x132231

Scottish sculptor.  Stoddart graduated from the Glasgow School of Art in 1980, and completed his postgraduate studies at the University of Glasgow in 1983.  Stoddart completed a programme of sculpture for the new Queen's Gallery at Buckingham Palace (2002).  He is best known for his public monuments of historic figures, such as Robert Louis Stevenson in Edinburgh.  In 2008 Stoddart was appointed Her Majesty’s Sculptor in Ordinary in Scotland.  A new exhibition, focusing on Stoddart’s drawings and models, is being held at the Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow until 12 September 2009.

Ball graduated in photography from the University of the Arts, London in 2006.  His work has appeared in Medium magazine, the Telegraph, Creative Review and AG magazine.  Recent exhibitions include Breathe at the East Thames Gallery, Stratford (July-October 2008) and Recovered at Deco 5 Gallery, Whitstable (July 2009).

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