Sculptor, draughtsman and painter, and teacher, born in Sheffield, Yorkshire. He studied at Chesterfield College of Art, 1959–62, at Kingston School of Art, 1962–5, then Royal College of Art, 1965–8. Draper won the sculpture prize at Young Contemporaries in 1965, then four years later had a one-man show at Redfern Gallery The 1970s saw him taking part in important foreign shows and in British Sculptors ’72 at RA, the year he gained a commission for John Dalton Building, Manchester Polytechnic. An important commission, in 1977–8, was his Oriental Gateway for Bradford University. In 1977 Draper took part in the Silver Jubilee Contemporary British Sculpture Exhibition in Battersea Park, the year he won a Major Arts Council Award. Arts Council holds several examples of his work, which was abstract.