Michael Sandle was born on 18 May 1936 and is a British sculptor and artist.
15 Facts About Michael Sandle
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Michael Sandle's works include several public sculptures, many relating to themes of war, death, or destruction.
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Michael Sandle's father was serving in the Royal Navy, and he was christened on HMS Ark Royal.
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Michael Sandle was taught by Andrew Forge, Lucian Freud, and Claude Rogers.
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From 1970 to 1973, Michael Sandle lived in Canada, where he was a visiting associate professor at the University of Calgary until 1971 and at the University of British Columbia from 1971 to 1972.
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Michael Sandle became professor of sculpture at the Akademie der Bildenden Kunste in Karlsruhe in 1980.
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From 1976 to 1982, Michael Sandle was a member of the faculty of engraving at the British School in Rome.
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Michael Sandle worked on an unrealised project for the Battle of Britain Monument with Theo Crosby and Pedro Guedes in 1987.
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Michael Sandle has exhibited at the 5th Paris Biennale, the Sao Paulo Biennial, and the 4th and 6th Documenta in Kassel.
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Michael Sandle designed the Belgrano Medal in 1986, which shows Margaret Thatcher, with the inscription "Imperatrix Impudens".
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Michael Sandle has been the recipient of a number of awards, including:.
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Michael Sandle was a selector for The Threadneedle Prize for painting and sculpture in 2010.
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Michael Sandle was elected a member of the Royal Academy in 1989, and became a Fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors in 1994.
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Michael Sandle resigned from the Royal Academy in 1997 in protest at the Sensation exhibition and the inclusion of Marcus Harvey's painting Myra, but rejoined in 2005.
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Michael Sandle won the Hugh Casson Drawing Prize for his Iraq Triptych, a drawing showing Tony and Cherie Blair naked, exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 2007.