Wolfgang Buttress

Wolfgang Buttress is an award winning artist working with public and private space. He creates simple, elegant and contextual artworks, which seek to define and celebrate a sense of place and the sublime.  His work alludes to histories, traces and memories that are both personal and contextual.

He was born in 1965 and studied BA (Hons) Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University in 1987. His practice has evolved over the past thirty years and has exhibited and created artworks in the UK and internationally.

Space (Tokyo, Japan, 2014), UNA (Canberra, Australia, 2013), Venus Rising (Brisbane, Australia, 2011), Rise (Belfast, Northern Ireland, 2011).
Throughout his career Wolfgang has worked and collaborated with many eminent architects and landscape architects including BDP, Conran and Partners, Gross Max, LDA, Gillespies and Lyons.

Over the last two years Wolfgang has won numerous national and international awards, including the International Structural Steel Award for projects under £2million (2013) and the first Western artist to win the prestigious Kajima Gold Award in Japan for ‘Space’ (2014).

He is the artist and creative lead behind the UK Pavilion Milan 2015 working alongside architects BDP and structural engineer Tristan Simmonds.

Kajima Sculpture Gold Award, Space, 2014

Structural Steel Design Award, Rise, 2012

International Structural Design Award (Project under £2 million), Rise, 2012

Runner-Up, Marsh Award for Excellence in Sculpture, Rise, 2012

BCI Construction Awards- Regeneration Award, Bradford Mirror Pool, 2012

Urban Lighting Project of the Year- LUX Awards, Bradford City Park Columns, 2012

Current Projects

UK Pavilion, World Expo 2015, UKTI, Milan, Italy.

Tide, Daisho Group, Brisbane, Australia.

Oculus, Delancey, London, UK.

Lucent, The John Hancock Center, Chicago, USA.

Vortex, Transport for London, London, UK.

Golden, Stoke City Council, Stoke on Trent, UK.

Bloom, Longcross North, Surrey, UK.

Selected Projects

Space, Kajima Foundation, Tokyo, Japan. 2014

UNA, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. 2013

Umbra, Birmingham City Council, Birmingham, UK. 2012

10 Columns, Bradford City Council, Bradford, UK. 2012

Venus Rising, Queensland Government, Brisbane, Australia. 2012

Rise, Belfast City Council, Belfast, UK. 2011

Timbre, Hammerson, Bullring, Birmingham, UK. 2011

Flow, Essex PCT, Broomfield Hospital, Essex, UK. 2010

Morning Dew, Somerset PCT, Minehead Hospital, UK 2010

Candle, SWRDA, Gloucester Docks, Gloucester, UK 2010