Peter Appleton was born Liverpool, England in 1945. After a Foundation Course at Chester College of Art 1973 - 1974 he did a BA in Fine Art at Newcastle upon Tyne University 1974 - 1978. He worked as an oil rigger 1978 - 1979 and then as part-time 3D designer in the Greek Museum, University of Newcastle upon Tyne 1979 - 1980 before doing an MA in Fine Art, Newcastle upon Tyne University 1980 - 1982. He now lives in Exeter, where he has taught part-time at Sheffield College of Art, Exeter College of Art, Falmouth School of Art and is currently Course Leader, Interactive Arts, University of Wales College, Newport

Combining sound and sculpture with an element of participation, Peter Appleton is one of the pioneers of a new form of sculpture, shown at the Arnolfini, Bristol 1985, and then nationwide, in the exhibition A Noise In Your Eye. Peter Appleton was one of three Artists-in-Residence in the Forest during 1986. He has received UK Fellowships and awards from Regional Arts Boards and has had one-person shows in many parts of England and in The Netherlands

Kevin Atherton was born in 1950 in the Isle of Man. He studied at the Isle of Man College of Art 1968-69 and Leeds Polytechnic, Fine Art Department 1969 - 1972

He has been a visiting lecturer, part-time teacher and external examiner in art colleges throughout the UK from 1972 and became a Specialist Adviser to the Fine Art Board, Council for National Academic Awards 1985 - 1992. He was on the panel of Assessors for the Arts Council of England “Arts for Everyone” Lottery Fund 1997 - 1999. Following a long period of teaching at Chelsea College of Art and Design 1982 - 1998, Kevin Atherton was appointed the first Head of Media Department at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin in January 2000

Kevin Atherton has exhibited widely since 1972, including performances and video and virtual reality installations in the UK, France, Belgium, the Netherlands and the USA. His work is in numerous public collections and he has received many awards. His best known public commissions include “A Body of Work” (ten life size bronze sections of pupils and staff commissioned by Tower Hamlets for Langdon Park School, Poplar), Three Bronze Deckchairs (Serpentine, London and Liverpool Garden Festival) 1984, the 1986 Platform Piece for Brixton Railway Station, and Iron Horses 1987, a sculpture in twelve parts commissioned by British Rail and the West Midlands County Council for the Birmingham to Wolverhampton railway corridor

Zadok Ben-David was born in Bayhan, Yemen in 1949 and emigrated to Israel. He studied at Bezalel Academy of Art & Design, Jerusalem 1971 - 1973 , arrived in England in 1974 and was Assistant to N H Azaz. After studying Fine Arts at Reading University in 1975 he went on to the advanced course in sculpture at St Martin’s School of Art, London in 1976. He taught sculpture at St Martin’s School of Art 1977 - 1982 and at Ravensbourne College of Art and Design Bromley 1982 - 1985. In 1987 he was Artist in Residence at Stoke-on-Trent Museum

Zadok Ben-David has had solo exhibitions since 1980 in the UK, the Netherlands, the USA, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Australia, Israel Singapore and has exhibited internationally in group exhibitions. He represented Israel at the 1988 Venice Biennale. He has undertaken Public commissions in Israel, the UK, Portugal and has work in Public collections in the UK, Europe, Israel, USA and Australia

Reinhild Beuther was born in 1970 in Rostock, East Germany. She studied Art History at the Humboldt University Berlin, 1990 - 1992 and then Sculpture, Ceramics and Photography at the Hochschule fur Kunst und Design Halle “Burg Giebichenstein” and Muthesius Hochschule in Kiel, Germany 1992 - 1995, and an MA in Sculpture at the Royal College of Art, London in 1997. She was DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) scholar at the Royal College of Art, London 1995 - 1996 and had a Henry Moore Scholarship at the Royal College of Art, London 1996 - 1997. Awards have included Merit Award, Aylesford Newsprint 1997; Deloite and Touche First Prize for Excellence 1997; First Base Award, ACAVA 1998 - 1999

She undertook a six month digital artist residency in Gloucester 1999; was artist in residence at the Poetry Festival, Ledbury, Gloucestershire 2000; artist in residence at the Sculpture Trail, Royal Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire 2000

Reinhild Beuther has exhibited widely in Great Britain and other parts of Europe, including : 1996 “Phobic” group show at Hockney Gallery, London, 1996 “GlovesOff” group show of German artists in the Shoreditch Town Hall, London, 1997 “Below Stairs” site specific show at Osterley Park House, 1997 “hothouse” exhibition in Kew Gardens, 1998 “Fire” video projection at Schloss Broellin, Germany, Sophiensale Berlin and Officina Gallery, Szehezin, Poland, 1998 “repeat” solo show with video work at Banbury Museum, 1999 “Absolut Melancholie”, touring solo show of photographic work in Central Point Gallery, London and Guildhall Arts Centre, Gloucester, 1999 “little mermaid” video installation as part of the “Single Screen” event, Forest of Dean, 2000 “Absolut Melancholie”, solo show at the NIMRC London, 2000 exhibition in Ledbury as part of Ledbury Poetry Festival, 2000 “Going Nowhere Fast”, group show at ACAVA, Cremer Street Studios, London, 2001 “Naked Nave”, sound exhibition at Gloucester Cathedral, 2001 “Beholden”, solo exhibition at Art and Design Gallery, Hatfield, University of Hertfordshire

Extensive work in sculpture, photography, digital imagery and video installations workshops include : Animationstation in Banbury 1998 - 1999; residency/workshops at Churchdown, Chosen Hill and Harewood schools, Gloucester, 1999; John Masefield High School, Ledbury as part of the Poetry Festival 2000 and teacher training workshops in Gloucester, Worcester and Herefordshire. Reinhild Beuther is a founder member of the artist run initiative artNucleus (see “Below Stairs”, “Naked Nave”) and lives with her partner Simon and their son Fridtjof in Gloucester.

Henry was born in Bath in 1987. After studying at the University of Gloucestershire and Wimbledon School of Art (2007-2010), Henry graduated with a 1st class Honours degree and was the joint winner of the final years Landmark Sculpture Prize. He went on to participate in a number of group shows in London galleries. On the strength of his degree show he was invited to exhibit in the Anticipation Exhibition, showcasing the best of London’s graduates and post graduates, which was selected by Kay Saatchi. Shortly after, he became the recipient of Jupiter Artland’s 2010 summer residency, which had been open to all graduates from the colleges of The University of the Arts, London that year. As a result, Jupiter Artland commissioned an artwork for their permanent collection. Hare Hill was installed in the summer of 2012.

Henry has since been involved in a long term project at Rubislaw quarry in Aberdeen, making works in response to Europe’s largest manmade hole, where plans are ongoing to create a heritage centre to celebrate the history of granite in the city. Some of this work, including ‘The depth of time’ was shown in Spinach in Islington in 2014 - 2015. He currently lives and works from his studio in Windsor, and was elected to the Royal British Society of Sculptors

Appointed in 2007, Cattrell was selected as joint winner of the Bombay Sapphire Glass Prize. She also had work in a show at the V&A in London in which her work clearly demonstrated her commitment to exploring complex details of structures and light. Echo, Annie’s sculpture for the Trail, provides another interpretation of the forest, responding to the geological history and the material nature of the landscape.

Located in, and cast from, Kensley Quarry, Echo nestles opposite its source. Like a 3D photograph, a moment in the life of the 310 million year lifetime of pennant sandstone has been frozen in time, every detail is there to discover in the surface of the sculpture.

Andrew Darke is an artist with an extensive career nationally and internationally. His work spans a number of fields and includes pieces for siting both indoors and outside. Early work was principally wood sculpture, often on a large scale relating to landscape. Recent 3D work is also responsive to the elements, wind and water particularly, and is fired by a passion for the outdoors and wilder places. Photography, video and sound recording works bring outdoor experiences inside for contemplation.

As a founding member of an artists' group (Art & Place) in the early nineties, renamed PLACE in 1995, Darke began work to reduce the impact of infrastructure developments on the environment and also engaged on urban regeneration projects. PLACE's focus in Cardiff Bay was on qualities of the bay which would subsequently be erased by the building of the Cardiff Bay Barrage. Work with the mobile phone industry, the Countryside Agency and the Forestry Commission to reduce the impact of mobile phone masts in the landscape followed and currently PLACE is working as an official consultee for National Grid and is calling for the undergrounding of 400kV and other power lines. These consultations are now changing National Grid’s working practices.

The environmental theme running right through Darke's work is underpinned by the conviction that retaining, and being able to have access to, land which is not dominated by humanity is crucial for the well being of us all and for many other species. He was invited to become a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) in 2008 for his work in arts and environment.

Miles Davies was born in Leigh, Lancashire in 1959. After a Foundation Course at Leamington Spa School of Art 1978 - 1979, he took a BA Honours Fine Art at Brighton Polytechnic 1978 - 1981 and subsequently at Manchester Metropolitan University with a Henry Moore Fellowship 1992 - 1993.

He has exhibited in one person and group exhibitions in England, France and Germany since 1980 with the assistance of awards from the British Council, the Bristol City Council and the Henry Moore Foundation. Miles Davies has undertaken commissions in several parts of England and his work is in collections in England, France and Germany.

Carole Drake was born in Bristol in 1963. She did an Art Foundation Course at Filton Technical College, Bristol 1980 - 1981 and then studied for a Joint Honours BA in Fine Art and Art History at Reading University from 1985 and an MA Fine Art at Newcastle Polytechnic in 1992. She subsequently obtained the National Certificate in Horticulture at Kirkley Hall College, Ponteland, Northumberland 1997 -1998

Since 1992 she has undertaken a number of installations in different parts of England in connection with residencies and production awards, with radio and television coverage and has held a number of teaching and administrative posts in art history and visual culture

She was artist in residence in the Forest of Dean in the summer of 1995 and in 1997 had the Galloway Forest Park Residency, Dumfries and Galloway. Most recently, she had a Year of the Artist Residency at Kingston Maurward College, Dorchester, Dorset

Neville Gabie was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1959. He was the Lead Artist for the Year of the Artist projects, Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail 2000 - 2001. This project resulted from a Year of the Artists residency undertaken by Neville Gabie in the autumn 2000 and spring/ summer of 2001. It was realised with the financial assistance of South West Arts, the Forestry Commission and Arnolfini Collection Trust and the co-ordination by Bruce Allan and Samantha Wilkinson. The project was built upon a permanent work which sees the volume of a tree represented in a variety of states – as a permanent installation in the forest – alongside four event based pieces that were documented and presented in printed form

Recent exhibitions and projects include: Solo Exhibition, Civic Gallery Johannesburg 1998; MOMART Artist in Residence. Tate Gallery, Liverpool 1999-2000; Solo Exhibition Hales Galley, London 2000; Solo Exhibition Kirkby Gallery, with Knowsely Art Service and Liverpool Football Club Museum 2001, “POSTS” published Penguin Books 1999; Saskawa International Photography Prize. Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography 2001

Whilst Artist in Residence at the Tate Gallery. Liverpool, the focus of the work was based around areas of urban regeneration. In an on-going project entitled “An A-Z of Empty Spaces” Neville began to consider the spaces and places, once homes and now left vacant. The objects left behind and notions of “home and belonging”. The tower block, Kenley Close was one such building

Ian Hamilton Finlay was born in Nassau, the Bahamas in 1925. He returned to Glasgow in early childhood and briefly attended Glasgow School of Art

He moved to London, did military service and then returned to Scotland where he worked as a shepherd. He published short stories and plays in the mid 1950s and moved to Edinburgh at the end of the 1950s. He founded the Wild Hawthorn Press, with Jesse McGuffe in 1961, initially publishing work by contemporary poets and artists and eventually exclusively by Finlay

In 1964 he began to produce poems designed to be set in an environment and in 1966 moved to Stonypath with Sue Finlay and began to create the garden there. In 1978 he began “Five Year Hellenisation Plan” for Stonypath Garden , renamed “Little Sparta”. Ian Hamilton Finlay has worked on permanent landscaped installations, with the collaboration of other contributors, in many parts of Europe and the USA and has exhibited world-wide since his first exhibition at the Axiom Gallery, London in 1968

He has been awarded honorary Doctorates by the University of Aberdeen and Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, and was shortlisted for the Turner Prize, Tate Gallery, London in 1985. He has published numerous books and booklets, cards and folding cards, poems and prints and his work is documented in a number of exhibitions and monographs

Magdalena Jetelova was born in 1946 in Semily, Czech Republic. She studied in Prague 1965 - 1971 and took the opportunity to work for a year in Milan with Marino Marini in 1967 - 1968

In 1983 she showed a “staircase” work at Tate Gallery, London, and subsequently had a one-person exhibitions at Riverside Studios, London (and a work in Kensington Gardens which was too large to show at Riverside Studios) , Arnolfini, Bristol and the Silvia Menzel Gallery, Berlin. She participated in the Hamburg Peace Biennal in 1985, the Sidney Biennal and Documents, Kassel. She was awarded first prize at the Philip Morris exhibition in Berlin and one of her most important works was acquired by Centre Pompidou, Paris. Resident until recently in the Czech Republic, she now lives in Germany

Magdalena Jetelova’s giant primitive structures were shown at the Riverside Studios, London and the Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol in 1985. She has also shown in the Sydney Biennale and at Documenta, Kassel

Tim Lees studied Geology and Stone Masonry and trained as a geologist at Bristol University. His first one-man exhibition was in 1986 at the Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol. Tim Lees has sited his sculpture on the top of the Rose in Hand coal mine, a disused drift mine overlooking the wooded Cannop Valley. Inspired by the idea of extracting material from the heart of the forest, he has cut the centre of a six-ton piece of stone from a nearby quarry and carved it into a smooth form that contrasts with the rough surfaces of the seven foot high flanking pieces. These remain standing uncarved like megalithic stones, of which there are several examples in the Dean. The central core of the stone resembles a fish leaping out of the stone, an appropriate image given the proximity of the rivers Severn and Wye, and symbolising hope and rebirth

Yvette Martin graduated from Loughborough College of Art. Her residency in the Forest of Dean was funded by the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust and South West Arts, running from July to September 1986

David Nash was born Esher, Surrey in 1945. After a Foundation Course at Kingston College of Art 1963 - 1964, he studied painting at Brighton College of Art 1964 - 1967, sculpture at Kingston College of Art and sculpture at Chelsea School of Art 1969 - 1970. In 1967 he moved to Blaenau Ffestiniog, North Wales

David Nash is one of the pioneers of sculpture as a process involving nature and the environment. His work evolves out of a direct relationship with nature and the living forms of trees and he also employs the dynamic elements of fire and water in his sculptures.

He has undertaken commissions and has exhibited in countries throughout the world since 1973 and has work in many major public collections in Europe, North America and Japan. He has also been responsible for numerous publications about his work

Cornelia Parker was born in Cheshire in 1956. She studied at Gloucester College of Art & Design 1974 - 1975, Wolverhampton Polytechnic (BA Hons) 1975 - 1978 and Reading University (MFA) 1980 - 1982. She currently lives and works in London. Since 1980 she has had solo exhibitions in England, France, Germany, Italy and taken part in group exhibitions in England, France, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Slovenia, Denmark, the USA and the 22nd International Biennal of Sao Paulo

She was nominated for the Turner Prize (Tate Gallery) in 1997, where her featured work was Mass (Colder Darker Matter), a work constructed from the charred remains of a Texas church that was struck by lightening. She has undertaken residencies, projects and commissions in the UK and the USA and has work in many private and public collections including the Tate Gallery London, the Arts Council of England, the British Council and the Saatchi Collection London

Her work Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View (a garden shed and contents blown up for the Artist by the British Army, the fragments suspended on metal wire around a single light bulb), first shown at Chisenhale Gallery London in 1991 and subsequently purchased by the Tate Gallery, featured among the opening displays at the Tate Gallery Modern, Bankside London from May 2000.

Peter Randall-Page was born in Essex in 1954. He studied at Bath Academy of Art 1973 - 1977. He then worked with Barry Flanagan and moved to London. After working on the conservation of 13th century sculpture at Wells Cathedral in 1980, he won a Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Travelling Fellowship to study marble carving in Italy in 1980

He worked on the “New Milestones” project with the assistance of Common Ground 1986 - 1987and moved to Devon in 1987. He took part in the “Local Distinctiveness Project” with the assistance of Common Ground in 1989 - 1996 and was artists in residence at the University of Tasmania in 1994. Peter Randall-Page was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Arts from the University of Plymouth in 1999. He has, since 1980, had one-person exhibitions and taken part in group exhibitions in the UK, mainland Europe and Australia. He has undertaken an extensive range of commissions in the UK and Japan and has work in many public collections

Sophie Ryder was born in London in 1963. She studied at Kingston Polytechnic 1980 - 1981 and the Royal Academy Schools, London 1981 - 1984. She has exhibited her work in solo exhibitions group exhibitions and Art Fairs since 1984 in many parts of the UK, mainland Europe, the USA, Canada, Belgium and the Netherlands. Sophie Ryder has also undertaken a number of residencies, including the Yorkshire Sculpture Park and Grizedale Forest 1986; Salisbury Cathedral 1987; Forest of Dean 1988; Kilkenny, Eire 1992; Boulogne, France 1996 and Cheekwood Sculpture Park, Nashville, Tennessee, USA 1997. Her work is included in public and corporate collections in the UK and Eire

Keir Smith was born in Kent in 1950. He studied Fine Art at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne 1969 - 1973 and at Chelsea School of Art 1973 - 1975. He has, since 1977, exhibited extensively in solo and mixed exhibitions in the UK and has many publicly sited sculptures as well as work in public collections, including “Stefano”, a large scale work in bronze for Sculpture at Goodwood in 1997 as a continuation of his interest in the art of the Renaissance

His work features in a wide range of exhibition catalogues, books, newspapers reviews and art periodicals

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