Jane Ackroyd

Jane Ackroyd (born 1957) is a British artist best known for her public sculptures. She is based in London.

Biography

Ackroyd was born in London and attended St Martin's School of Art from 1979 to 1982. She then studied for her master's degree at the Royal College of Art between 1982 and 1983. In 1984 she held an artist-in-residence post in Leicestershire and had her first solo exhibition at the Kingsgate Workshops Gallery. From 1988 she has been a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy summer exhibitions in London and has had a series of solo exhibitions at the Anderson O'Day gallery. Ackroyd participated in the first Royal West of England Academy Open Sculpture Exhibition held in 1993. In 1995 Ackroyd received the Jackson Pollock-Lee Krasner Foundation Award in New York.

Works in collections