Bill Culbert

Bill Culbert was born in Port Chalmers, New Zealand, in 1935. He studied fine art at Canterbury University School of Art (1953-56) and post-primary teaching at Auckland Training College, New Zealand (1957). He then came to London to study painting at the Royal College of Art (1957-60), gaining a silver medal for painting on graduation.

For the last thirty years, Bill Culbert has been working with light, using it to transform objects and to create new ones. Andrea Shlieker has written, 'Culbert is best known for making hybrids of ordinary domestic objects - wine glass, stool ...