Paul de Monchaux was born in Montreal in 1934 to second-generation Australian parents. He spent an itinerant childhood living in Canada and North and South America and studied at The Art Students League in New York (1952-54) before moving to London in 1955 to study at Slade, he taught full-time at art schools for nearly three decades, at The Nigerian College of Arts, Goldsmiths and finally Camberwell, where he was Head of Sculpture until he retired in 1986. De Monchaux has exhibited extensively and has been included in group shows at the ICA (1960), Camden Arts Centre (1979), Hayward and Serp...
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A new exhibition has opened in Fitzrovia, turning The Piper Gallery into a sculptural landscape reminiscent of an ancient city. The new show is artist PAUL DE MONCHAUX’s first commercial exhibit, and is a retrospective of his work from 1986 to 2013. Fixing Memory, the title of the show, stems from the artist’s desire to ‘leave a trace’ and to create something permanent that will withstand the flux of time. De Monchaux is a much celebrated artist, who considers himself a ‘figurative sculptor’, one who responds to things rather than concepts or ideas. Born in Montreal and educated in both Ne...
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