DAVID BEGBIE

Internationally renowned sculptor David Begbie has worked almost exclusively with the human form throughout his career.

Since his first pioneering solo show in London 1984, a whole new genre of steel-mesh art has emerged and continues to grow. He is the master of his medium and his work speaks for itself. 

David Begbie discovered the particular properties of steel and bronze mesh as an art student in 1977. Since then his work has been exhibited globally and has been an enormous inspiration to many people, including architects, designers, photographers, and those in world of theatre and dance, as well as to other artists. His work has been imitated and copied worldwide, resulting in a highly popular sculpture genre.

Since his graduation in 1982, Begbie has worked predominantly with the human form, although he has often produced abstract composition alongside the figurative sculpture. Primarily sculpting in steel and bronze mesh, he also produces mono-prints, etchings, ink and charcoal drawings, mixed-media work and photographs, but it is for his distinctive wire mesh sculpture that Begbie is most renowned.

Begbie's preoccupation with the human form as his subject has often been compared to Michelangelo – and to Rodin, as his subject is often that of the partial or truncated figure.