Roland Piché

Roland Piché (born 21 November 1938 in Hackney, London) is a British artist and teacher. He is best known for working in the Abstract style across prints and sculptures, and his work appears in international collections in the UK, Brazil, the United States and Sweden.

Life Piché was born in London in 1938 to parents who were from Montreal. He attended private school but did not enjoy it. He became a part time assistant, working for Henry Moore, in 1963 the same year he exhibited with the New Contemporaries.

He was then invited by Bryan Robertson

He was photographed by David Bailey for British Vogue. Over the past fifty years Piché continued to work alongside teaching and has generated over 600 sculptures and 2,000 paintings. He retired from teaching in 2003 and in 2010 married Cherie Harvey. This has been described as working within and against the British Modernist tradition while incorporating elements of what Surrealist André Breton described as 'biomorphic forms'. These forms have also been described as 'figurative illusions'. Many of his sculptures were made with polyester resin, fibreglass, aluminium and bronze. His sculptural forms are said to reference the work of Francis Bacon. Despite making sculptures incorporating organic looking elements, Piché saw himself as working "against nature" while Henry Moore worked "on its side". Other important influences on him have been Constantin Brâncuși, Auguste Rodin and Michelangelo. In addition his pieces are located internationally in São Paulo Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York and Gothenburg Museum of Art. He now works from his studio based in Tollesbury.