Mick Kirkby-Geddes Found material sculpture

About the Artist

Mick was born in Sheffield in 1966. He has been a professional sculptor since leaving Leeds Polytechnic with a degree in Fine Art in 1988. He makes his sculptures from a mixture of steel junk and new metal and often incorporates a touch of humour.

Inspired at an early age when an old old cog, found by his dad on the moors, was given a coat of paint by his mum and used as a candle holder. As he says, ”The fact that these sorts of things were lying around out there waiting to be discovered was fascinating”. The junk metal in his work provides interesting shapes which, welded together with new metal, live again as parts of sculptural animals, people, robots and vehicles.

Mick is well known locally for his work with schools and as the sculptor behind the Aire Valley Sculpture trail which runs between Saltaire canal bridge and Baildon Bridge in Shipley.