Garth Evans

alt=A portrait of Garth Evans in front of his sculpture on The Hayes, Cardiff City Centre, 2020. A portrait of Garth Evans in front of his sculpture on The Hayes, Cardiff City Centre, 2020.

Garth Evans (born 1934) is a British sculptor and former college lecturer at St Martin's School of Art, London.

Background Evans' mother was from Pencoed, her father and brothers were South Wales coalminers. He was born in Cheshire in 1934 and studied at the Slade School of Art in London.

Career Evans exhibited widely in the 1960s and 1970s including in the group exhibitions British Sculpture '72 at the Royal Academy of Arts (1972) and The Condition of Sculpture at the Hayward Gallery (1975). He had a survey exhibition of his work at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in 2013. His works were known for their size and grand statements, though they became smaller and less dramatic from the late-1970s onwards. It was inspired by Evans' family stories about the South Wales coalmining (and steel) industry. In September 2019 it was returned to Cardiff by Chapter Arts Centre, restored and repainted after a £16,000 crowdfunding campaign, then reinstalled close to its original location in The Hayes. White Relief No.14 is in the collection of Rugby Art Gallery and Museum.