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Sep 10
by Admin in William Mitchell 0 comments tags: Seven Reliefs/Mosaics

William Mitchell

1925 – 2020 Mitchell was born in London in 1925. He studied at Southern College of Art, Portsmouth and at the Royal College of Art. After designing furniture for Ernest Joyce, he set up William Mitchell Design Consultants and went on to produce sculptures in plastics, concrete, wood, marble, brick and fibre glass. Throughout his career, Mitchell has pioneered sculptural techniques which utilise new materials and technologies. In 1967, he showed three huge figures made from Thermalite concrete building blocks in an exhibition at the Engineering and Building centre in Birmingham. He has worked on a range of buildings in New Towns, including Stevenage, Basildon, Hatfield and Cwmbran, producing his trademark abstract architectural features for schools and for residential and commercial developments. As a consultant to the London County Council in the 1960s, he designed adventure playgrounds and other sculptural features. Working with Sir Frederick Gibberd, he designed the entrance and doors for the Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King in Liverpool and produced the Stations of the Cross and entrance doors for Frederick Jennet at Clifton Cathedral, Bristol. His international projects include a series of artworks for various stations at BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) in San Francisco, a […]
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