About
Ben Twiston-Davies has been a figurative sculptor since 2000. He has been a Visiting Lecturer in sculpture and drawing at the University of Hertfordshire, since 2014.
Ben is thrilled to have been nominated for the PSSA ‘Excellence in Public Sculpture Award’, 2022, for his statue of Ebenezer Howard.
Ben is currently modelling a statue of Agatha Christie for her hometown Wallingford, in Oxfordshire, which is due to be unveiled in 2023. He is also working on a series of polychrome portrait figures, ‘Life Models’.
Ben’s statue of the British comic, actor and TV host, Bobby Ball, was unveiled in Lytham St Annes in August, 2022.
His bronze statue of Ebenezer Howard, the founder of the Garden City movement, was installed in the centre of Welwyn Garden City in April 2021 to celebrate the city’s centenary.
Since 2013 Ben has been making sculptures to be installed on Viking Ocean cruise liners - now over 100 pieces on 9 different ships.
In 2016 he made a statue of Horace Rawlins, the first winner of the US Open Golf Championship. Casts were installed at both the Mid-Herts Golf Club and Springhaven Golf Club in Philadelphia.
In 2015, Ben was commissioned by advertising agency 101 London to produce a sculpture for a print advert for the brand Kettle Chips.
In 2014 he made a series of twelve free copies of Rodin sculptures at the Henry Moore Foundation during their exhibition Moore-Rodin.
In 2012 he made the permanent bronze memorial to Agatha Christie, “The Book”, sited in Covent Garden in London.
In 2011 he was commissioned by the British publisher Orion to produce twenty book covers (photographs of ceramic sculptures) for the re-release of twenty of their bestselling titles. These books, the Orion XX imprint, were released in February 2012.
Between 2008 and 2011 he made over twenty life-sized bronze and mixed media statues for the Royal Carribean cruise liners Allure and Oasis, the world’s largest-ever passenger ships.
From 2005 to 2008 he made a series of twelve polychrome figurative sculptures commissioned by the Turner prize-winning artist Keith Tyson.
In 2004/5 he taught sculpture at the Art Academy, London.
He has portrait and figurative works in several private, corporate and public collections, including the National Gallery of Wales.
Before that he was a television news journalist in London, working for Reuters from 1995-97 and NBC Europe from 1997-99. He was born in 1971, grew up in Wiltshire, and lives with his wife Rebecca and their two sons in Hertfordshire.