William Tucker (1935 - ) made his first abstract constructions in steel and wood while studying at the Central School of art and Design, and then subsequently with Anthony Caro at St. Martin’s School of Art in 1959-60. Here, he met Phillip King, David Annesley and the other young sculptors, whose work was to make a radical break with tradition: their sculpture was abstract, constructed in modern industrial materials and placed directly on the ground.

Exhibiting in London and New York, and teaching at Goldsmiths’ College and St Martin’s during the 1960s, Tucker published The Language of Sculpture in 1974. His work became larger and more frontal in aspect, with pieces such as Tunnel (1975), now in the collection of the Tate Gallery. During the 1990s he made many large charcoal drawings and a series of massive sculptures suggestive of the figure.

Tucker’s work has received international acclaim, winning the 1991 Sculpture Centre (New York) award for Distinction in Sculpture, the 2009 RA Summer Exhibition Sculpture Prize, and the 2010 International Sculpture Centre Lifetime Achievement Award.

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