PPhotograph: Rebecca Barnard

​Martin Cody  MRSS
b.1951 UK

1968-69 

Organised and performed in events known as Arts Laboratories based in Norwich and Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.

These were an amalgam of rock concert,poetry readings and experimental theatre.
 

Mid-70’s  

Hull Regional College of Art Foundation course.

 

1976-79

Liverpool Polytechnic, School of Art and Design, Department of Sculpture. BA(Hons) in Sculpture.

 

1979-80

Awarded the John Moores Fellowship in Sculpture from Liverpool College of Art and Design.

Part-time employment by Liverpool Playhouse as a carpenter.
 

1981

Worked at the Young Vic Theatre,Waterloo, London as part of Theatre in Education team.
 

1984

Postgraduate qualification as an Art Therapist, (now Art Psychotherapist), followed by a career in NHS Adult Mental Health services in London and Birmingham until 2011.
 

2014  Resumed making sculpture and have since shown sculpture,installation and drawing.
 

2022  Selected for membership of Royal Society of Sculptors
 

2025 - 2026  Spike Island Associate,Bristol

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​'….I am primarily a studio sculptor making constructions built up from repeating and varying a base unit of structure or form and sometimes a combination of both. Concept and materials are equally important to me and I think my work is most successful when one feeds the other.

The portfolio pages that follow show examples of such units; struts, perforated steel panels and hexagonal solids and so on.

Every now and again, I hire a larger space as a pop-up studio where I can see my work and materials together in an extended interior, take good quality photographs and resolve technical problems in assembly if any.

Then again, sometimes a particular material or materials suggest a piece which is best created by process and action and I include these occasional works in my practice under the term,‘dispersed’ sculpture.’

 

 
Martin Cody

MRSS