Sean Henry

2017-2020 will see seven of Henry's works being permanently installed in various locations across Woking, Surrey, included Seated Man (2011) and the powerful figure of The Wanderer (2013) inside and outside Woking train station. In Jubilee Square, the contemplative Standing Man (2009) now mixes with pedestrians, and in 2020 the final cast of Catafalque (2003) will join the collection in the newly completed Victoria Square.

In 2008, Scala Publishers published a comprehensive monograph on Henry's work, written by the art historian Tom Flynn. This was followed in 2011 by a second Scala publication Conflux: A Union of the Sacred and the Anonymous to mark Henry's solo exhibition of 22 figures at Salisbury Cathedral. In 2015 the National Portrait Gallery in London commissioned Henry to create a painted bronze sculpture of Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the founder of the World Wide Web. Henry has been represented by the Osborne Samuel Galler in London since 1999, and by Galleri Andersson Sandström in Sweden since 2004.

His works include Walking Man in London's Holland Park (1998) and Man with Potential Selves in the centre of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne (2001). Editions of Walking Woman can be found in London, Oslo, Bad Homburg and Colchester, Essex. He completed the UK's first permanent offshore sculpture, Couple, in 2007, a critically acclaimed 13m high sculpture located 300m off the coast of Northumberland in Newbiggin Bay. Other noteworthy works include Standing Man in Stockholm (2010), Lying Man at the Frederick Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park in Michigan, USA (2011). More recently Seated Figure, a 3m high sculpture can be seen located within the North York Moors National Park (2017).

Henry's first solo show was in London in 1988 and he has since gone on to exhibit his work widely in both solo and group exhibitions in the UK, USA, Sweden, Germany, Holland, Italy, Australia, Greece and Switzerland.

Henry grew up in Surrey, England and studied at Farnham School of Art (now University for the Creative Arts) before taking a BA in ceramics at Bristol Polytechnic from 1984 to 1987. He was the visiting artist at the University of California from 1991 to 1992, and won the Villiers David Prize in 1998, becoming the first sculptor to win the award.

Sean Henry (born 1965, Woking, Surrey ) is a British sculptor, based in Hampshire, England. His work includes private and public installations in many locations across Europe and the USA. Fusing the disciplines of ceramics with those of sculpture to create a fresh, innovative approach to representing the human figure, Henry's painted figures have helped to revive the long tradition of polychrome sculpture.