Michael Lyons

Michael Lyons RSA FRSS (10 July 1943 – 19 April 2019) was a British sculptor who was instrumental in the creation of the Yorkshire Sculpture Park.

Education Lyons was educated at Cotton College, Staffordshire, at Wolverhampton College of Art (1959–1963), Hornsey College of Art (1963–1964) and Newcastle University (1964–1967).

Career Lyons was Head of Sculpture at the Manchester Metropolitan University between 1989 and 1993 and also taught at college in the US, China, and Canada. He represented Britain in Biennales in China, Argentina, Mexico and Australia. His drawings and sculptures are in various collections, including those of the Canary Wharf Group, Arts Council England, the Henry Moore Institute, and the Yale Centre for British Art.

He was a Trustee of the Ironbridge Open Air Museum of Steel Sculpture. Leeds Art Gallery. 'Michael Lyons: Freeze Frame' (9 March 2016– 26 July 2016). One Canada Square Scale Appropriate on loan (31 March 2014– 23 May 2014). Yorkshire Sculpture Park.

Awards In 1966, he featured in the Young Contemporaries in London and won a Peter Stuyvesant Prize at the 1967 Northern Young Contemporaries in Manchester. In 2006 he won the Premio Fondo Nacional de las Artes at Chaco Biennale, Argentina.