BIOGRAPHY

Rodney Munday began sculpting professionally in the early 1990’s. He exhibited annually at the Chelsea Flower Show and other Royal Horticultural Society Shows from 1996 – 2004. Since then, he has exhibited widely in this country and in France.

In 2019 he was awarded the Grand Prix du Salon at the Salon International de Pont de Cheruy; in 2017 he gained the Grand de Sculpture at Art-inter's Grand Prix International des Créateurs du Siecle, at the Palais Bondy in Lyon, and was the guest of honour at the Salon International des Arts, at Zillisheim in Alsace.

He has also won the Gold Medal for Sculpture and other awards over a number of years at the Salon D'Art du Colombier in the Yvelines just south of Paris. In 2004 and again in 2005 his work was selected for the Chichester Festivities. In 2005 he won the gold medal for sculpture at the 11th Salon D’Art Colombier at St. Arnoult-en-Yveslines near Paris.

He has held solo exhibitions at Gallery 27 in Cork Street, London and at the Oxmarket Gallery in Chichester. In 2007 he was invited to exhibit at Galerie Art Present in the Paris Beaubourg during April and May.

In 2003 he was commissioned to produce a statue of ‘Europa and the Bull’ for Wyeth Europa, the multi-national pharmaceutical company. In 2005 he was shortlisted to produce a wall and doors for the Grand Opera House in Belfast. In 2007 his statue of St. Edmund of Abingdon was unveiled at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford by the Chancellor of the University, Lord Patten.

Public / Corporate Commissions:

2021  Sculptures for the tower of St. John Baptist church, Cirencester.

2017  St. Andrew the Fisherman. Plymouth Minster.

2016   Richard Hale. Richard Hale School, Hertford.

2015  St. Edmund of Abingdon. Cambridge University.

2013 – 14  The Gift. Chichester and Worthing hospitals.

2013 – 14   Alfred Russel Wallace. Hertford.

2011  St. Edmund of Abingdon. St. Edmund’s College, Ware.

2006 - 7  St. Edmund of Abingdon. Oxford University.

2003 - 4  Europa & the Bull. Wyeth Europa Pharmaceuticals, Maidenhead.

Shortlistings:

2009  St. George & the Dragon. Perth Cathedral, Australia.

2005  Copper wall and doors for the Grand Opera House, Belfast.

Private Commissions:

Numerous worldwide.

Awards:

2019 Grand Prix du Salon (Sculpture) at the 65th Salon Internationalde Pont de Cheruy

2017 Grand Prix de Sculpture at Art-inter's Grand Prix International des Créateurs du Siecle, at the Palais Bondy in Lyon

2017 Invité d'honneur at the Salon International des Arts, Zillisheim

2017 Medal for the sculpture most popular with children at the 23rd Salon D’art du Colombier, St Arnoult-en-Yvelines, France.

2005 Gold Medal for Sculpture at the 11th Salon D’Art du Colombier.

2006 Medal for the sculpture most popular with children at the 12th Salon D’art du Colombier.

2007 Bronze Medal for Sculpture at the 13th Salon D’Art du Colombier.

2010 The Mayor’s Prize, Hertford Art Society Open Exhibition.

Exhibitions:

Solo Exhibitions:Galerie du Lycée Gabriel Fauré, Foix, Ariege, France (2016)

St. Edmund Hall, Oxford (2009)

Galerie Art Present, Rue Quincampoix, Beaubourg, Paris (2007)

Gallery 27, Cork Street, Mayfair (2005)

Oxmarket Gallery, Chichester (2005)

Joint Exhibitions:65thSalon Internationalde Pont de Cheruy (2019)

67th Hertford Art Society Open Exhibition (2019)

Salon Arts-inter's "Grand prix International des Createurs du Siecle", at the Palais Bondy, Lyon (2017)

Salon International des Arts, Zillisheim, Alsace (2017)

Salon D’Art du Colombier, St. Arnoult-en-Yvelines (2005-7, 2010, 2017)

St George’s Sculpture Project Exhibition, Perth, Australia (2009)

Sculpture in Paradise, Chichester Festivities (2004-5, 2010)

Limehouse Gallery, London, Summer and Winter Shows (2009-10)

Hertford Art Society Open Exhibition (2010-11)

Woburn Abbey (2010)

Encounters Exhibition, Hatfield House (2008)CLA Game Fair, Blenheim Palace, Oxon (2008)

London International Horse Show, Olympia, London (2007)

Newnham Paddox Art Park, Warwickshire (2006)

The Chelsea Flower Show (1994-2004)

Hampton Court Flower Show (1993-2003)

Journees des Plantes , Chateau de Courson, France (1999-2000)

Galleries currently exhibiting work:

Barlow Fine Art, Holt, Norfolk.

Talks, Demonstrations, Workshops:

Numerous to schools and societies.

Publications:

The Myth of the Artist qv (The Salisbury Review 2005).

Sculpting St. Edmund (Quad 2019)

The Medium isn't the the Message (The Jackdaw 2019)

Reconstructing Notre Dame (The Jackdaw 2019)

Easel Words (The Jackdaw 2019)