Bill Culbert (born 1935) came from New Zealand in 1957, studied at the Royal College of Art in London between 1957 and 1960, and by the early 70’s was exhibiting in the UK's most prestigious galleries and museums. He lives and works between London and Provence.
Initially a painter working within the realm of constructivism, Bill Culbert began his experimentations with electric light in 1968 and started to use shadows, camera obscura, bulbs and fluorescent as his core medium, constructing and retaining light into sculpture. Soon his work generated intense interest and he exhibited extensively, with many solo shows including the Serpentine Gallery (1976), and the ICA (1983 and 1986). His work received also much attention in France where he participated in major exhibitions such as Electra, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1983, Britannica, 30 years of Sculpture, Musée des Beaux-Arts André Malraux (1990), Le Havre, where he had his first French retrospective in the same year. Other exhibitions include The Sixties Art Scene in London at the Barbican, curated by David Mellor (1993), Un siècle de Sculpture Anglaise, Jeu de Paume, 1996. In New Zealand, his solo retrospective at the City Gallery, Wellington, toured to the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth and Dunedin Public Art Gallery, from 1997 to 1998. Bill Culbert has had more than 100 solo exhibitions to date.
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