Alexander Stoddart
Sun-Maiden of Parmenides
About this artwork
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title:Sun-Maiden of Parmenides
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accession number:GMA 5106
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materials:Terracotta
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date created:2009
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measurements:Height: 36.00 cm
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credit line:Presented to the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art by the artist and his wife to mark his appointment as H.M. Sculptor in Ordinary in Scotland, 2009
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copyright:© Alexander and Catriona Stoddart
Alexander Stoddart
Alexander Stoddart
Born in Edinburgh, Stoddart studied at Glasgow School of Art from 1976-80. There he challenged modernist, multi-media approaches and began instead to produce austere, neo-classical busts and statues. Briefly associated with Ian Hamilton Finlay in the mid 1980s, it was later in the decade that Stoddart began making more public…