Paul de Monchaux

Natalie Rudd was Senior Curator of the Arts Council Collection until 2021, before which she held curatorial posts at Southbank Centre, the University of Manchester and Tate Liverpool. She has published several books on modern and contemporary British art.


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Paul de Monchaux was born in Montreal in 1934 and studied at the Art Students League, New York (1952-54) and the Slade School of Fine Art (1955-58). After teaching at the Nigerian College of Arts, Science and Technology (1958-60) and Goldsmiths College of Art (1960-65), he became Head of Sculpture and Head of Fine Art at Camberwell School of Art. In 1986 he retired from teaching to focus attention on his own work. De Monchaux's public commissions include Oozells Square, Birmingham (1998); Silence, Jersey (2007); Breath, Norwich Memorial Gardens (2001) and, most recently, Girton Column, Girton College, Cambridge (2012). He lives and works in London.