Sculptor, installations artist and teacher, whose work reflected his family’s background –Thomas Firth & Sons of Sheffield, later Firth Brown, world-famous specialist steel forgers and precision-machiners – and his own as a mathematician and engineer. Firth was drawing resident at Glyptoteket Museum, Copenhagen, 1970–1; studied mechanical engineering at Birmingham University, 1971–2; attended Camberwell School of Art, 1972–6; then Slade School of Fine Art, 1976–8. He won a travel scholarship to Japan, 1979; research grant into lasers/holograms as sculptural media, 1980; and taught in British art schools, 1980–90. Commissions included White Noise, Greater London Council, 1983; Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, America, 1992–3; and 150th Anniversary Sculpture, Institute of Actuaries, 1998.

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)


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