DACS artists Antony Gormley, OBE and Neil Shawcross, MBE have had their artistic contributions recognised by the Queen in the recently announced New Year’s Honours list 2014.
New Year Honours for DACS members
The acclaimed sculptor
Antony Gormley, OBE was awarded a knighthood for his services to the arts. He is widely known for his public works
Angel of the North (1994), in Gateshead, and
Another Place (1997) on Crosby Beach near Liverpool.
He is currently exhibiting in
‘Masterpieces: Art and East Anglia’ at Norwich’s Sainsbury Centre and is in the Arts Council Collection’s touring exhibition
‘Uncommon Ground: Land Art in Britain 1966 – 1979’ which next opens at the
Mead Gallery at Warwick Arts Centre on Saturday 18 January.
Painter Neil Shawcross received an MBE for his services to the arts in Northern Ireland. He specialises in portraiture and his subjects have included the artists Sir Terry Frost and Colin Middleton, and the former Lord Mayor of Belfast, David Cook.
He is an Academician of the Royal Ulster Academy of Art, and has work in a number of public and private collections including the
Arts Council of Northern Ireland collection.
We pay royalties to both artists through our
Artist’s Resale Right service.
Further notable Honours in the arts
Other notable artists awarded New Year’s Honours were Scotland-based painter Derek Clarke, MBE, and winner of the Turner Prize 2010, Susan Philipsz, OBE.
In other areas of the art world, Honours were awarded to the founders of
ACME Studios, Jonathan Harvey, OBE and David Panton, OBE, and Harriet Bridgeman, CBE, philanthropist and founder of the
Bridgeman Art Library.
Read more about the New Year’s Honours 2014.
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Image: Antony Gormley, ANOTHER PLACE, 1997. Cast iron, 189 x 53 x 29 cm (100 elements). Installation view, Crosby, Merseyside, UK, 2005. Photograph by Stephen White, London © the artist