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James Butler

1931 -

Sculptor. Born in London, Butler trained at Maidstone School of Art (1948--50), and at St Martin’s School of Art (1950--2). He did his National Service with the Signals Corps (1953--5), and then worked for ten years as a stone-cutter, before taking a teaching post at the City and Guilds School of Art. Butler’s first major public commission was for a twice life-size figure of President Jomo Kenyatta for Nairobi. Other public commissions, many of them for modern and historical portrait figures, followed. The most recent has been the Fleet Air Arm War Memorial on the Victoria Embankment. This colossal figure of the winged Daedalus was unveiled by Prince Charles on 1 June 2001. Apart from his portrait statues, Butler has been a prolific sculptor of the female nude. He lives and works at Radway, Warks. He was elected RA in 1972, and became a fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors in 1981.

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