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{{Infobox artist
| name             = James Castle
| birth_date       = {{birth year and age|1946}}
| birth_place      = [[Aberdeen]], [[Scotland]]
| nationality      = [[Scot|Scottish]]
| education        = {{plainlist|
* [[Ealing School of Art]], [[London]]
* [[Winchester School of Art]], [[Winchester]]
* [[Royal College of Art]], London
}}
| known_for        = Sculpture
| website          = {{URL|http://www.jamescastlesculpture.co.uk|JamesCastleSculpture.co.uk}}
}}
'''James Castle''' is a [[Scotland|Scottish]] [[sculptor]] and artist based in [[Malmesbury, Wiltshire]]. The majority of his work is carved in wood; there are also sculptures modelled in plaster and clay, some of which have been cast into bronze.<ref name="concrete">{{cite web |title=From the Sublime to the Concrete: exhibition catalogue |url=https://issuu.com/scottishgallery/docs/tsg_from_the_sublime_to_the_concret |publisher=The Scottish Gallery |accessdate=25 April 2020 |page=73 |date=2018}}</ref>
Castle was born in 1946, in [[Aberdeen]], [[Scotland]]. He was educated at [[Ealing School of Art]], London; [[Winchester School of Art]], Winchester, where he was taught by [[Heinz Henghes]]; and the [[Royal College of Art]], London.<ref name="concrete"/> He worked as a senior lecturer in sculpture at the [[University of Gloucestershire]], Cheltenham.<ref name="concrete"/>
A lot of Castle's work depicts loosely, or cryptically anthropomorphic animals. He says: "I think one of the reasons I began to use [[zoosemy|animals as a metaphor]] for the human condition came from the fact that we like to bestow these creatures with the same kinds of emotions as our own, without ever really knowing what is going on... this 'one step removed' from our reality is of interest to me."<ref>James Castle, quoted by Paul Greenhalgh, from 'The Sculpture of James Castle'; exhibition catalogue</ref>
He was an invited artist at the [[Royal West of England Academy]] in 2006. He exhibits with the Compass Gallery, Glasgow, and with the Bohun Gallery, Henley upon Thames.
==References==
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==External links==
*{{Official website|http://www.jamescastlesculpture.co.uk}}
*[http://www.jamescastlesculpture.co.uk/?sculpture=40 Essay about James Castle's recent work]
*[https://www.artuk.org/discover/artists/castle-james-b-1946/search/-54216/page/487/view_as/grid James Castle at Art UK]
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[[Category:1946 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Scottish sculptors]]
[[Category:Scottish male sculptors]]
[[Category:Artists from Aberdeen]]
[[Category:People from Malmesbury]]
[[Category:Alumni of the Royal College of Art]]
[[Category:Academics of the University of Gloucestershire]]
[[Category:Alumni of the University of Southampton]]