Budden, Dick
Born in 1940 in Jersey, Budden attended Kings School Bruton and Bournemouth College of Art. After 5 years enjoying the sixties he started freelancing at BBC TV Centre in 1968 where he learnt to make anything mostly from expanded polystyrene at the drop of a purchase order. As a commercial sculptor he has been associated with hundreds of projects from Star Wars and Superman to Morecambe and Wise to Monty Python.
During slack periods he carved wood to make sculpture some of which have now been cast in bronze. The sculptures he has submitted to the Grove Sculpture Exhibition are interactive sculptures and which he originally made of polystyrene and glass fibre with an iron powder and resin finish. These materials are not suitable for public installation, rather intended for private gardens. However here they have been cast into iron making them all but indestructible and therefore suitable as public sculpture.
The career high point for Budden was enlarging with Kenneth Armitage on his last three public works. He enlarged Both Arms in Leeds Reach for the Stars in Newcastle and People Walking in Leeds.
At present he is continuing to make sculpture and carrying out any commissions that come along.