Prof. Brian Falconbridge PRBS

Head of Sir John Cass Dept. of Art, Media & Design
President of The Royal British Society of Sculptors

RAE Outcomes

Research interests:
Studio-based sculptural practice using bronze and English hard-woods; themes derived from European metaphysical still-life painting, conveyed via geometrical form and construction, often in reduced scale; Japanese aesthetic values (i.e wabi-sabi) and artefacts within the cross-cultural in relation to contemporary comparative Euro-Asian thought, product and process.

Academic esteem

Chairman of the British Council Taiwan Panel (From Nov 2003 and ongoing)

President of the Royal British Society of Sculptors (From May 2004 and ongoing)

Treasurer of the Royal British Society of Sculptors (May 2003 - May 2004)

Member of the Westminster Public Arts Advisory Panel (From 2005 and ongoing)

Invited specialist advisor on sculpture by New Wembley Stadium for the Bobby Moore Statue Commission (2005 - 2007)

Invited specialist advisor on sculpture by Futurecity and the St Pancras re-development to advise and select the sculptor for the Sir John Betjeman commission (2007)

Appointed Visitor to the Royal Academy Schools, Royal Academy of Arts, London (From 2006 and ongoing)

External Advisor to UCE in connection with the revalidation of the BA and MA in Fine Art at City & Guilds of London Art School (2003)

Appointed to the Academic Board of Curators to TIPP: Tihany International Postgraduate programme in association with the Hungarian Academy of Fine Art (from 2003 and ongoing)

Appointed External Examiner for Visual & Performing Arts, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (2003 - 2005)

Selected conferences

2001 - The Asiatic Society of Japan, Tokyo. Invited speaker: The Brush of Asia

2002 - Global perspective: the Visual Arts as a global link, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea. Keynote speaker

2002 - Virtual Reality - Arts & Design Technology, Chung Li University, Taiwan. Invited speaker

Selected recent solo/joint exhibitions

2003 - Paper and Bronze, Massmanska Kvarnen, Kuturcentrum, Ronneby, Sweden

2003 - Segni - Tokens (joint with Prof. Riccardo Liccata), Place Arte Contemporanea, Cavagnolo, Torino, Italy

2003 - Narrow Road, The Fermoy Gallery, King’s Lynn Arts Centre, King’s Lynn, Norfolk

2002 - Brian Falconbridge: Sculpture & Drawing, Chappel Galleries, Chappel, Essex

1996 - M.A.C, Taipei International Convention Centre, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC

Selected recent group exhibitions

2006 - Manufactured in the UK: Line and Colour in British Art, Villa Boriglione "Le Serra", Grugliasco, Torino, Italy

2005 - 236th Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London

2005 - Salthouse 05, Salthouse Church, Norfolk

2004 - Exhibition Scultura Internazionale ad Aglie, Castello di Aglie, Torino, Italy at the invitation of the Associazone Piemontese Arte

2004 - 235th Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London

2003 - Manufactured in the UK, Villa Boriglione "Le Serra", Grugliasco, Torino, Italy

2003 - 234th Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London

2002 - Blue, Place Arte Contemporanea, Cavagnolo, Torino, Italy

2002 - London Underground/Taipei, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC

2002 - 233rd Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London

2001 - London Underground, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, South Korea

2000 - 232nd Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London