Lot 92: †Wilfred Pritchard, Born 1970 The Black

†Wilfred Pritchard, Born 1970
The Black Death
Bronze
Signed, from an edition of 3
250cm.; 98½ins high by 240cm.; 94½ins wide by 185cm.; 73ins deep
Wilfred Pritchard is the pseudonym for Eddie Powell, the owner and curator of The Sculpture Park, in Churt, Surrey. Born and brought up in South Wales he graduated from Guildford College of Art with a 1st Class Honours degree in Photography and Sculpture in 1978, culminating in being given the rare opportunity of a one man exhibition at the Photographers Gallery in London's West End, entitled |Captivity|. Since then he has combined commercial careers as varied as a hotelier, interior designer, metal and ceramics manufacturer, with his love and passion of photography and most particularly, sculpture.
His bronze of a skeleton vaulting over a horse |Backflip| was chosen to be one of a select group of sculptures exhibited in the Athletes Village during the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic games. Other works are now in public collections, both in this country and abroad.