Ceramic figure sculptor, born in Gibraltar, who studied at Harlow Technical College, 1977–9; Staffordshire Polytechnic, 1979–83; and Royal College of Art, 1983–6. He showed with Contemporary Applied Arts from 1986; Garden Show, Gainsborough’s House, Sudbury, 1989; The Decade Ahead, Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, 1990; Colours of the Earth, British Council show touring India, 1991; and The Raw and the Cooked, Barbican Art Gallery and tour, 1993–4. Solo shows at Barrett Marsden Gallery and Victoria & Albert Museum, both 2001, and Barrett Marsden, 2003–4. Victoria & Albert Museum, Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, Contemporary Art Society and public galleries in Brighton and Hove, Gateshead and Portsmouth hold examples. Eglin won the Jerwood Prize for Ceramics in 1996.