Duncan Thurlby Sculpture

Since leaving Loughborough College of Art & Design in 1990, I have been working full time as a metal sculptor.

Initially concentrating on commission work for music and entertainment venues, including Chelsea Football Club, Camden Palace and Chicago Rock Café to name but a few, I have recently focussed my attention on gallery pieces, public space artwork and commissions for private clients as far afield as America and Australia as well as exhibiting work at both the Wirksworth Festival and the Melbourne Festival for a number of years.

My work ranges from the ever popular hounds through pelicans, giant conker shells, toucans and alligators to large scale architectural water sculptures.

My inspiration is plucked from the natural world, never too literally or seriously, a sense of character and humour being essential in all of my creations.

In more recent years I have been making garden furniture and plant sculptures and within the last couple of years have worked alongside ceramicist Garry Jones making some inventive and rather amusing pieces, some of which can be found in River Island stores as decorative and humorous additions to sales displays.

I use a range of hand working techniques and the final pieces emerge as a result of this rather ‘unnatural evolution.’