{{short description|British sculptor}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = Kendra Haste | image = 1.Haste-Elephant, Work-in-Progress.jpg | caption = Kendra Haste working on the Waterloo station elephant sculpture | birth_date = 1971 | birth_place = Putney, London | education = Wimbledon College of Art (1990), Camberwell College of Arts (1993), Royal College of Art }}
'''Kendra Haste''' is a British wildlife artist who produces both public and privately commissioned sculptures using galvanised chicken wire mesh to create wire sculptures of wild animals. She is a member of the Society of Wildlife Artists, the Royal British Society of Sculptors and the Society of Animal Artists. She lives in Surrey, England.
==Career== [[File:13.Haste-Timber Wolf (detail).jpg|alt=Detailed photo of the head of a timber wolf made by Kendra Haste in which the details of individual wires can be seen.|thumb|right|Detail of Haste's wire work on a timber wolf sculpture.]] Haste was born in 1971 in Putney, London, where she grew up.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kendrahaste.co.uk/biography/|title=Biography|last=Haste|first=Kendra|website=www.kendrahaste.co.uk|language=en|access-date=21 March 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kendrahaste.co.uk/statement/|title=Statement|last=Haste|first=Kendra|website=www.kendrahaste.co.uk|language=en|access-date=21 March 2017}}</ref><ref name="portelli" /> She graduated from the Wimbledon College of Art in 1990, and in 1993 earned a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in illustration from the Camberwell College of Arts.<ref name="portelli" />
Haste went on to graduate from the Royal College of Art,<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/02/lifelike-galvanized-wire-animal-sculptures-by-kendra-haste/|title=Lifelike Galvanized Wire Animal Sculptures by Kendra Haste|last=Jobson|first=Christopher|date=February 16, 2015|work=Colossal|access-date=20 March 2017|language=en-US}}</ref> where she first became interested in wire sculpture, using galvanised wire mesh over a steel armature, later on using the wire mesh as sculpting material on its own for indoor work.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://taylorholmes.com/2015/03/06/interview-magnificent-sculptor-kendra-haste/|title=Interview With Magnificent Sculptor Kendra Haste|date=March 6, 2015|website=Taylor Holmes inc.|access-date=20 March 2017}}</ref> Haste's sculptures are generally created by building up many layers of wire mesh over the steel armature skeleton, spray finished with enamel paint.<ref name=":0" /> In 1999, her sculpture of a baboon won the BBC Wildlife Art Award.<ref name="portelli" />
Haste lives in Surrey, UK.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.patrickdaviesca.com/artist/biography/id/4|title=Artist Biography - Patrick Davies Contemporary Art|first=Patrick Davies Contemporary|last=Art|access-date=10 April 2017|archive-date=1 April 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170401144401/http://www.patrickdaviesca.com/artist/biography/id/4|url-status=dead}}</ref>
===Historic Royal Palaces commission=== In 2010 Haste was commissioned by Historic Royal Palaces to create a series of pieces, (thirteen in total), which tell the story of the Royal Menagerie that had existed at the Tower of London from 1210 until 1833. Throughout the 600 years that there was a menagerie at the Tower of London, apes and monkeys were always a feature. Baboons roamed the Tower freely until, in 1833, a child was killed by their aggressive behaviour. Soon after, the entire menagerie was moved to Regent's Park, to become what is today the London Zoo. Using research from the Tower of London archives, Haste returned the animals to their original locations around the Tower.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://artdaily.com/news/39825/Historic-Royal-Palaces-Awards-Sculpture-Commission-to-Kendra-Haste#.WGqNtFz8N7l|title= Historical Royal Palaces Awards Sculpture Commission to Kendra Haste |publisher=Artdaily.com|date=August 9, 2010|access-date = December 31, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hrp.org.uk/tower-of-london/whats-on/royal-beasts/#gs.ts1ctk|title= Royal Beasts Return to the Tower of London|publisher=Historic Royal Palaces|date=May 1, 2011|access-date=December 31, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/esmagazine/tall-tales-6403251.html|title= Tall Tales|last1=Jeffs|first1=Lotte|publisher=London Evening Standard|date=May 19, 2011|access-date=December 31, 2016}}</ref><gallery> File:2.Haste-Lion Installation at the Tower of London.jpg|Three Barbary lions, gift of Frederick II to Henry III, 1235. File:10.Haste-Polar_Bear_at_the_Tower_of_London.jpg|"White" bear, King Haakon II of Norway to Henry III, 1251. File:3.Haste-Elephant at the Tower of London.jpg|Elephant, gift of Louis IX to Henry III, 1255. File:9.Haste-Baboon_Installation_at_the_Tower_of_London.jpg|Baboon troop opposite the Jewel House File:11.Haste-Baboon_on_the_Brick_Tower_at_the_Tower_of_London.jpg|Baboon on the Brick Tower. File:Flipped_Wire_Lion_Detail.jpg|Lion in detail </gallery>
===Waterloo Elephant=== [[File:6.Haste Waterloo Elephant.jpg|thumb|alt=The elephant at Waterloo Station between two arches.|right|Haste's ''Elephant'' at Waterloo tube station.]] [[File:7.Bison Head, National Wildlife Museum, Wyoming.jpg|thumb|right|Bison Head, National Museum of Wildlife Art, Wyoming.]] thumb|Rhinoceros installed at Cannon Hall Museum, Barnsley, UK.|right Haste's Waterloo ''Elephant'' was originally commissioned by the London Underground as part of its Platform for Art programme and set up at the Gloucester Road tube station. After the success of Haste's "Underground Safari" pieces, the London Underground purchased the African elephant sculpture and installed it near the ticket hall of a new Jubilee line extension at the Waterloo tube station. The new location is on the site of the old Astley's Amphitheatre – sometimes considered the world's first circus ring – where in 1828 an elephant that was part of the show was frightened and blundered into the crowd.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://londonist.com/2015/02/why-is-there-an-elephant-in-waterloo-station|title=Why is There an Elephant in Waterloo Station|date=October 2015|publisher=Londonist|last1=Brown|first1=Matt|access-date=December 30, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://londonist.com/london/things-to-do/unusual-things-to-do-in-waterloo-station/|title=7 Things You Might Not Have Done in Waterloo Station|date=7 November 2016|publisher=Londonist|last1=Hanson|first1=Kyra|access-date=23 March 2017}}</ref>
==Exhibitions== ===Solo=== Haste's solo exhibitions include: *Parnham House, Beaminster, Dorset, (1998),<ref name="portelli" /> *''Underground Safari'', Gloucester Road Underground station, (2000),<ref name="portelli" /> *''NDUTU'', Davies & Tooth, Air Gallery, London (2003),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://copac.jisc.ac.uk/id/41033638?style=html|title=NDUTU : Kendra Haste, New Sculpture & Drawings, November 17-29, 2003|publisher=Davies & Tooth (2003)|access-date=22 March 2017|archive-date=23 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170323233030/http://copac.jisc.ac.uk/id/41033638?style=html|url-status=dead}}</ref> *''NDUTU'', Midlands Art Centre, Birmingham.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/birmingham/your_community/bhm/events_exhibitions.shtml|title=NDUTU : Kendra Haste|publisher=British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) |date=28 October 2014|access-date=22 March 2017}}</ref>
===Group=== Haste's participation in group exhibitions include: *Annual Exhibition, Society of Wildlife Artists, (1995-9),<ref name="portelli" /> *''Born Free Exhibition'', Fitchs Ark, London, (1996),<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/checkout-fitchs-ark-1305752.html|title=Checkout Fitch's Ark|publisher=Independent.co.uk|date=19 April 1996|access-date=22 March 2017}}</ref><ref name="portelli" /> *''Art of the Rainforest'', Nature in Art, Gloucester, (1997),<ref name="portelli" /> *MA Degree show, Royal College of Art, London, (1998),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://web.rca.ac.uk/show1998/|title=Illustration|publisher=Royal College of Art|date=1998|access-date=February 27, 2017|archive-date=7 August 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100807081013/http://web.rca.ac.uk/show1998/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="portelli" /> *Graduate Multi-media Show, Candid Arts Trust, (1998),<ref name="portelli" /> *Graduate Exhibition, Minsmere RSPB reserve, Suffolk, UK, (1998),<ref name="portelli" /> *''Nature'', Collyer Bristow Gallery, London, (1999),<ref name="portelli" /> *''Young British Sculptors'', Beaux Arts Gallery, Bath, UK, (2000),<ref name="portelli" /> *''Underground Safari'', London Underground, (2001),<ref name="society">{{cite web|url=https://www.bdonline.co.uk/tusk-masters/7460.article|title=Tusk Masters|date=October 3, 2000|publisher=BDonline.co.uk|access-date=February 18, 2017}}</ref> *''Wild Tigers of Bandhavgarh,'' The Burrell Collection, Glasgow Museums & Art Galleries, (2000),<ref name="portelli" /> *''Art 2001'', Davies and Tooth, London, (2001),<ref name="portelli" /> *''Three generations of Sculptors'', Beaux Arts Gallery, Bath, UK (2001),<ref name="portelli" /> *''Art London'', Davies and Tooth, London, (2001),<ref name="portelli" /> *''Patrick Davies Contemporary Art'', (2003),<ref name="portelli" /> *''Let's Dance! Animals – Art and Design Exhibition,'' Chimei Museum, Tainan (2016).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.chimeimuseum.org/%E5%B1%95%E8%A6%BD%E5%9B%9E%E9%A1%A7/765D93E5-798A-46A2-B8B7-AC0379FC5AD3/33/66|title=Let's Dance! Animals - Art and Design Exhibition|website=www.chimeimuseum.org|language=zh-TW|access-date=20 March 2017|archive-date=4 April 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170404191833/http://www.chimeimuseum.org/%E5%B1%95%E8%A6%BD%E5%9B%9E%E9%A1%A7/765D93E5-798A-46A2-B8B7-AC0379FC5AD3/33/66|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Other works== Other works by Haste include: * ''Rhinoceros'', Cannon Hall, Yorkshire, UK,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://otherfabrications.com/kendrahasterhino/|title=Kendra Haste – Rhino at Cannon Hall|date=May 2014|publisher=OtherFabrications.com|access-date=23 March 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.barnsley.gov.uk/media/1595/issue-2-aug-2014.pdf|title=Cannon Hall's New Residents|publisher=Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council|date=August 2014|access-date=December 31, 2016|archive-date=3 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170103164955/https://www.barnsley.gov.uk/media/1595/issue-2-aug-2014.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> * ''Bison Head'' (2016) National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson, Wyoming,<ref name="jackson">{{cite web|url=http://www.jhnewsandguide.com/stepping_out/arts/bison-sculpture-honors-two-mountaineers/article_f5dbe796-4cfe-57bc-a386-bb2b8974321e.html|title= Bison sculpture honors two mountaineers|last1=Jones|first1=Isa|publisher=Jackson Hole News&Guide|date=September 28, 2016|access-date=December 30, 2016}}</ref>
==Awards and affiliations== Haste won the Artists for Nature Foundation Award (where she is a member)<ref name="india">{{cite web|url=https://www.artistsfornature.com/artists/|title=India|date=1997|publisher=Artists for Nature Foundation|access-date=January 4, 2017}}</ref> in 1997, the Dale Rowney Illustration award in 1998, and the BBC Wildlife Art Award in 1999.<ref name="portelli" /> Haste is featured among 95 sculptors in Guy Portelli's book "Modern British Sculpture".<ref name="portelli">{{cite book|title=Modern British Sculpture|last=Portelli|publisher=Schiffer Publishing Ltd.|year=2005|isbn=0764321110|pages=298–300|author-link=Guy Portelli|first1=Guy}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/2061672|title=Modern British Sculpture|website=collections.britishart.yale.edu|language=en|access-date=20 March 2017}}</ref>
Haste is a member of the Society of Wildlife Artists, the Royal British Society of Sculptors and a signature member of the Society of Animal Artists.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://swla.co.uk/wp-swla/members-list/kendra-haste/|title=Kendra Haste|publisher=Society of Wildlife Artists - SWLA|access-date=January 4, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url=https://sculptors.org.uk/artists/kendra-haste|title=Members|publisher=rbs.org.uk|access-date=8 April 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.societyofanimalartists.com/members.html|title=The Society of Animal Artists Membership|website=Society of Animal Artists|language=en|access-date=March 27, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090611014101/http://www.societyofanimalartists.com/members.html|archive-date=June 11, 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==References== {{reflist|30em}}
==External links== {{commons category}} {{Portal|Biography|Visual arts}} * [https://www.kendrahaste.co.uk Kendra Haste website] {{Authority control}}
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