Tom Grimsey
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Tom Grimsey (1960–2014) was an English sculptor and teacher. He created many public sculptures by commission, which stand in locations in Britain.
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Grimsey was born in Highgate in London. He studied at Wimbledon College of Arts from 1979 to 1982, and at St Martin's College from 1982 to 1983, where he began to work particularly in welded metal sculptures. He was a Henry Moore Sculpture Fellow from 1990 to 1991, and was an artist-in-residence at several organisations. From 2003 he taught at the University of Brighton, from 2008 as head of sculpture, until his death.[1][2][3]
He was concerned that there should be collaboration between art and science, and was particularly interested in nanoscience. Working with scientists on a project funded by EPSRC to develop a "Directed Reconfigurable Nanomachine", he created kinetic installations showing the patterns created by moving molecules. This was the basis of the exhibition Giants of the Infinitesimal, held at the Science and Industry Museum in Manchester in 2011 and at the Magna Science Adventure Centre in Sheffield in 2012. He was the co-author, with the science writer Peter Forbes, of Nanoscience: Giants of the Infinitesimal (2014).[2][3]
He was married to Susan Postlethwaite, and they had two children. Grimsey died in 2014, after suffering from cancer.[2]
