Marcus Cornish

Marcus Cornish
NationalityEnglish
EducationCamberwell School of Art, Royal College of Art
Known forSculpture

Marcus Cornish is a contemporary British sculptor. After obtaining a First Class Honours degree in sculpture at Camberwell School of Art, he went on to gain a Master of Arts degree at the Royal College of Art.[1] A scholarship enabled him to spend time in India, studying the work of traditional Aiyanar potter priests, and his Master's thesis was about their work crafting terracotta horses for Aiyanar shrines in Tamil Nadu.[2] In 1993 he was elected a Member of the Royal British Society of Sculptors.[1]

He spent time as official tour artist with the British Army in Kosovo, and again as official tour artist on a diplomatic tour of Eastern Europe by The Prince of Wales.[1] He is an Academic Board member, and occasional tutor, of The Prince's Drawing School - a charitable trust founded by the Prince of Wales that provides a wide range of courses focused on drawing and painting skills.[3]

  1. ^ a b c Marcus Cornish - Career Outline, Supplementary document (PDF) accompanying his application to be considered for the work of creating the sculpture of Jesus Christ for the Our Lady Immaculate and St Philip Neri Church in Uckfield, East Sussex
  2. ^ Out of India: Hindu spirituality in recent British sculpture Archived 28 August 2008 at the Wayback Machine,David Cohen, ArtCritical.com, 1994 (originally published in Sculpture Magazine, Jan-Feb 1994)
  3. ^ "The Prince's Drawing School - who we are". Archived from the original on 11 October 2014. Retrieved 10 January 2010.