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Matthew Spender (born 1945) is an English sculptor. He is the author of From a High Place: A Life of Arshile Gorky (1999), a biography of his father-in-law, the artist Arshile Gorky, and A House in St John's Wood (2015), about his father, the poet Stephen Spender.
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Matthew Spender (b.1945) Sculptor, painter and writer, born and brought up in London, son of the poet Stephen Spender. He read modern history at Oxford University before devoting himself to painting, then in 1980 he began sculpting in wood, clay and occasionally stone.
Aug 21, 2015 · Matthew Spender’s memoir starts with the striking sentence: “It was WH Auden who taught me about adjectives.” He taught Stephen much more. TS Eliot recognised a precocious talent.
Mar 31, 2023 · It is 50 years since I was last driven up this long track towards the Tuscan farmhouse where artists Maro Gorky and Matthew Spender have lived and worked since 1968.
- Vanessa Nicolson
Matthew Spender. (1945-), Artist and writer; son of Sir Stephen Spender. Sitter in 2 portraits. Matthew Spender studied sculpture at the Slade School of Fine Art and moved to Italy in 1968 with his wife Maro Gorky.
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Oct 1, 2015 · Spender (Matthew recorded at the time) thought he was being “hilarious”, his usual guileless self. Everyone else wanted to hide.
