Reviews Archive - Ian Rank-Broadley

AMY KANN & ALICIAN N. PONZIO – NATIONAL SCULPTURE SOCIETY , USA.

irb_admin — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 15:03:22 +0000

Fifteen free-standing bronze sculptures, depicting aspects of death, loss and immortality stand at the heart of the project. The sculptures are by Ian Rank-Broadley, known for his effigy of H.M. Queen Elizabeth II on UK coinage. Kann feels that the... Read More >

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Michael Sandle RA, Sculptor.

Ian Rank-Broadley — Wed, 22 Oct 2014 09:49:24 +0000

Ian Rank-Broadley must be the best figurative modeller alive in Britain.

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Julie Summers, Historian & Biographer, writes of the Armed Forces Memorial sculpture

irb_admin — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 11:07:07 +0000

The sculptures are also deeply moving. Beautifully observed and understated in their gestures they have something of the colossal power of the CS Jagger sculptures on the memorial at Hyde Park corner.It is hard to look at them in detail... Read More >

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Martin Jennings FRBS Sculptor

irb_admin — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 11:06:29 +0000

I would like highly to recommend Ian Rank-Broadley’s statue groups at the Armed Forces Memorial for the Marsh Award. These sculptures do everything that one could wish for in a military memorial, expressing the pathos attendant upon the death and... Read More >

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Philip Attwood, Keeper of Coins & Medals, British Museum

irb_admin — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 11:05:09 +0000

Ian Rank-Broadley is one of Britain’s foremost medallic artists, balancing a sensual classicism with an aesthetic that is very much of our own time. With its sensitive combination of the real and the ideal, his portrait of the Queen on... Read More >

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Dr. Donald Buttress, Surveyor Emeritus of Westminster Abbey.

irb_admin — Fri, 12 Sep 2014 13:11:48 +0000

Ian Rank-Broadley is without a doubt one of the most distinguished sculptors and medallists of the present day. He has an impressive list of commissions behind him and I can confidently affirm that he is in every way suited to... Read More >

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Peyton Skipwith

irb_admin — Fri, 12 Sep 2014 13:11:27 +0000

The quality of his work, which you will have seen, obviously speaks for itself; however, I am aware that for a project … discipline, reliability and the ability to work with others are equally important factors in the achieving of... Read More >

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Tim Knox, Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

irb_admin — Fri, 12 Sep 2014 13:11:09 +0000

“Mr Ian Rank-Broadley… is an outstanding sculptor and one of the few these days who can produce well modelled, anatomically accurate, figure sculpture which is not only based on good drawing in the academic tradition but also on the highest... Read More >

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Reverence to the real: A study in comparative realistic portraiture by Sara Shavel-Jessop

irb_admin — Fri, 12 Sep 2014 13:10:14 +0000

Click here to download a printable version In the modern age of airbrushed models and retouched photography, it is uncommon to find, as a mass-produced representative image, and unflattering, or unaltered, likeness. As catwalks display the dictated impression of what... Read More >

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