Desmond Fountain
Bacardi Limited Biennal at the Bermuda National GalleryBacardi Limited Biennial 2002Artists featured in the Bermuda National Gallery's BiennialsBacardi Ltd.Biennial 1994Biennial 1996Bacardi Biennial 1998Bacardi Ltd Biennial 2000

croquet by demond fountain

Croquet

bronze on cedar base
9.5 x 7.25 x 7.25 inches

Desmond H. Fountain Bermudian, born December 29, 1946



artist statement
This Bermuda National Gallery is my artist's statement. As founder of the Bermuda Fine Arts Trust I am most encouraged by the way my dream is reaching fulfillment through the continued work and participation of others.

education
1964-66 Stoke-on-Trent College of Art
1966-69 Exeter College of Art
1969-70 University of Bristol
solo exhibitions
1975- HA & E Smith Ltd, Bermuda
1976- AS Cooper & Sons Gallery, Bermuda
1978- Hamma Galleries, Hamilton, Bermuda
1980- Alwyn Gallery, Bond Street, London, England
1982- Bacardi International, Bermuda
1983- Alwyn Gallery, Bond Street, London, England
- Coach House Gallery, Guernsey, Channel Islands
- Sally le Galis, Jersey, Channel Islands
- Renaissance Gallery, Stamford, CT
1986- Windjammer Gallery, Bermuda
- Renaissance Gallery, Stamford, CT
1989- Windjammer Gallery, Bermuda
1993- Cavalier Galleries, Stamford, CT
- Windjammer Gallery, Bermuda
- L'Ortolan Sculpture Garden, Berks
1995- Bermuda National Gallery retrospective
- Falle Fine Art, Napier Gallery, Jersey, Channel Islands
- Cavalier Galleries, Greenwich, CT
1996- Coutts (Bermuda) Ltd.
1997- Falle Fine Art, Napier Gallery, Jersey, Channel Islands
1998- Bermuda Arts Centre at Dockyard
major commissionsawards
Fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors
1981-84 Sir George Somers for St. George, unveiled by HRH The Princess Margaret
1987- medallions of Nobel Prize winner, C.F. Powell in silver, gold and platinum for World Congress FIDEM, Colorado
1993-95 public memorial in Greece
1994-95 "Mark Twain"
1996-99 "Heroes of Oz Trial" for Garden of Sculpture, Warwick, England
1998- "Spirit of Bermuda: Johnny Barnes"