Tony Heaton
- January 9, 2024
- Sculptor
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Tony Heaton Biography
| Name | Tony Heaton |
| Birthday | Oct 11 |
| Birth Year | 1954 |
| Place Of Birth | Preston |
| Home Town | Preston |
| Birth Sign | Capricorn |
Tony Heaton is one of the most popular and richest Sculptor who was born on October 11, 1954 in Preston, Preston, ****. Heaton was born in Preston, Lancashire, in 1954, the son of a coppersmith. When, at the age of 16, a motor bike accident left him with a spinal injury, he switched from a comprehensive school to a local arts college at Southport. From 1972, he was self-employed as artist, sign writer, disc jockey, record shop proprietor, progressive rock band member and mural painter. According to a Disability Arts Online profile, at this period “Heaton gathered enormous expertise and self- reliance whilst appearing to drift aimlessly”. In 1986 he enrolled on a visual arts degree at Lancaster University whilst earning a living as a sign-painter.
The 1994 sculpture, ‘Great Britain from a Wheelchair’ is a map of Britain made from two grey NHS wheelchairs. “A delightful game, it forms a wonderful repudiation of the value judgement (‘This is for some tragic bastard’, in Heaton’s words) implicit in the wheelchairs.” An image of this work was chosen by the National Disability Arts Collection and Archive as an example of work from the ‘golden age’ of disability arts. During the 2012 Paralympics Heaton was invited to redesign ‘Great Britain From a Wheelchair’ as lecterns for Lord Coe and Sir Phillip Craven during the opening and closing ceremonies.
In 2002, Heaton organised the DA21 Disability Arts Conference at Holton Lee. He also planned the inaugural conference to discuss the establishment of what would become the National Disability Arts Collection and Archive. The idea then envisaged was to create a purpose-built archive as part of the developing Holton Lee campus. This was abandoned after Heaton moved on. NDACA will now take the form of an interactive website and catalogue, after receiving funding of nearly £1 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund in 2015.
In 2007 Heaton became CEO of Shape Arts, the arts and disability charity founded by dancer Gina Levete. He brought to the organisation a new emphasis on disability arts and professional opportunities for artists.
Shaken..not Stirred’ (1991) consisted of a seven-feet high pyramid of 1,760 charity collecting cans, its ascending ranks of red plastic referring to the hierarchical nature of the charity system. The whole edifice was brought crashing to the ground when Heaton threw an artificial leg at it, suggesting that the hierarchical system could be destroyed by the collective power of disabled people. As his work has developed, it has embodied ideas about disability and impairment. For instance, “Split” (1995) is a woodcarving made from a piece of ash discarded by a wood turner as useless because it has a shake; a fault running through it. Heaton saw this as “indicative of a society that sees only perfection and disregards all that is damaged or perceived as impaired”.
Tony Heaton Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Sculptor |
| House | Living in own house. |
Tony Heaton is one of the richest Sculptor from . According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Tony Heaton 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Anthony James Heaton OBE (born 11 October 1954) is a British sculptor, disability rights activist and arts administrator, who was awarded an OBE in 2013 for services to the arts and the disability arts movement. He was CEO of the arts charity Shape until March 2017. In 2012, he won the competition to produce an installation celebrating Channel 4’s involvement in the London 2012 Paralympic Games. This produced his ‘Monument for the Unintended Performer’.
An early piece, “Springback” (1990), is an assemblage including a spinal X-Ray juxtaposed above the shock absorber springs of a scrapped motorcycle, referring to the accident which caused his impairment and the metal strengthening spring placed inside his spine.
From 1997 to 2007, Heaton was based in Dorset, as Director of the Holton Lee Trust which offers a mix of environmental, artistic and spiritual activities, with short stay residential facilities for Disabled people, in an SSSI comprising 350 acres of woodland, reed bed and heath land landscape adjacent to Poole Harbour.
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Heaton has announced that he will stand down as CEO in 2017 and become Chair of the organisation.
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Heaton was chosen by artist Tanya Raabe, in an interview with BBC Ouch, as one of her ideal dinner guests, along with Michael Caine, Frida Kahlo, her husband Diego Rivera, “because he’s a womaniser and I think he’d get on marvellously with Tony Heaton’‘ and her best friend, Ann Young.