Born in Plymouth, England, Robert Truscott is a sculptor producing sensitive figurative work, mostly in bronze and plaster.

His ‘Defeat’ sculpture was the winner of the prestigious Threadneedle Prize Visitor Choice Award 2012 and he has been the recipient of significant public commissions.

After graduating from Winchester School of Art, a fascination with Russian culture and history lead him to St Petersburg’s Repin Academy, where he continued post graduate study. He feels that the human figure remains the ultimate means of artistic expression, communicating in a direct unequivocal manner humanities eternal struggle. His inspiration is often drawn from the music of Beethoven, Bruckner, Wagner and Soviet Composers such as Shostakovitch and Rimsky-Korsakov. Their work articulates mankind’s yearning for a humanised society based on traditional values in harmony with nature.