Laurence Edwards

Laurence Edwards lives and works in his native Suffolk. He began his training at Canterbury College of Art before moving to London in 1988 to study bronze casting and sculpture at the Royal College of Art. Among his many earlier prizes and honours was a travel grant to India, where he studied traditional casting techniques. He later combined this training in traditional methods with state-of-the-art casting techniques to produce his distinctive bronze figures, which appear both mythic and contemporary. Edwards was awarded the 2006 Freakley Prize by the Society of Portrait Sculptors. Two years later he presented his 'Creek Men', a series of monumental bronze figures, as part of the world-famous Aldeburgh Festival, where they were exhibited floating on a raft among the reeds of the River Alde.