Kenneth Draper

Born 1944

Kenneth Draper was born in Sheffield and studied painting at Chesterfield College of Art between 1959 and 1962 and Kingston School of Art between 1962 and 1965. He won the sculpture prize at Young Contemporaries in 1965 and went on to study sculpture at the Royal College of Art between 1965 and 1968. In 1971 Draper won the Mark Rothko Memorial Award, a bursary enabling him to travel to the USA. As well as regularly exhibiting with the Redfern Gallery in London, Draper taught at Goldmiths College and Camberwell School of Art. He was elected a Royal Academician in 1991 and lives in Menorca, Spain.