Ian Rank-Broadley studied sculpture at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London. He was awarded the Boise Travelling scholarship and travelled to Rome, Naples, Florence, Venice and Paris. On his return he assisted Reg Butler, his Director of Studies at the Slade. He then set up his own studio and has for the past forty years created numerous sculptures in bronze.
“The naked figure, whether in the studio or on the beach, has always fascinated me. It is a subject that everyone can relate and respond to in their own way, often without conceptualising or intellectualising. That is the way I prefer to do it. There is a deeper response to the illusive and resonating qualities of the body in art.”
Like the great Renaisance sculptor Cellini, he has sculpted both reliefs for coinage and large scale figures for memorials. His effigy of HM Queen has been used on all UK and Commonwealth coinage since 1998; the two large bronze groups for the Armed Forces Memorial, are examples.
Rank-Broadley is a Liveryman of The Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths’ and was granted the Freedom of the City of London in 1996. He is also a Fellow of the Royal British Society of Sculptors and a Brother of the Art Workers Guild.
As well as works in private collections, there are examples in the British Museum, National Portrait Gallery, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Staatliche Museen, Berlin, Fitzwilliam Museum , Cambridge and St Paul’s Cathedral.
His memorial to Diana, Princess of Wales commissioned by HRH The Duke of Cambridge & The Duke of Sussex will be unveiled in the Sunken Garden at Kensington Palace on the 1st July 2021.
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Torso of Aron
Ian Rank-Broadley
A fine quality, contemporary life-size sculpture of a male nude entitled ‘Torso of Aron’ by Ian Rank-Broadley (British, b. 1952). This work in jesmonite is […]
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