Endless Mobius Curve

Endless Mobius Curve
edition of 6
Robin Holliday Sculpture

Cast Bronze
Patina or Polish
60x32x32cm

custom plinths available

Robin Holliday 1932-2014

Molecular Biologist, Author, Sculptor

Robin Holliday FRS FAA (6 November 1932 – 9 April 2014) was a British molecular biologist. Holliday described a mechanism of DNA-strand exchange that attempted to explain gene-conversion events that occur during meiosis in fungi. That model first proposed in 1964 and is now known as the Holliday Junction.
Robin had been elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1976, Foreign Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy in 1995, and then Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2005. He published six books, and about 270 scientific papers. After retirement he took up a long-standing interest in sculpture which initiated, in effect, a second career. His many bronze sculptures are exhibited in and around Sydney, and have also been exported to the USA and UK.

His interest in sculpture dates back to the l960s and l970s when he attended classes at an Art School in Hertford, Herts, UK, and also at the Camden Art Centre, Finchley, London. Two of his  instructors were the established sculptors Mark Harvey and Jesse Watkins, and three others had worked as assistants to Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth and EduardoPaolozzi.  Robin  worked with stone, wood, clay and plaster and  obtained instruction in art metalwork, and experimented with mixed media.