ABOUT Julian Mayor

Julian Mayor is a British artist and designer known for his sculptural welded steel works. Using high-tech design processes, the artist digitally creates each piece on a computer before bringing it to life by hand in his studio.

Born in 1976, Mayor earned a BA in Industrial Design from Northumbria University in 1998 and then completed his MA in Design Products at the Royal College of Art. After graduating in 2000, he moved to Northern California and worked for a design consultancy as a product and interior designer. In 2004, he returned to London to work for UK-based agencies, including Pentagram, and collaborated with British designer Tom Dixon.

His work has been exhibited at the Victoria & Albert Museum London, the Museum of Arts and Design New York, and Sculpture in Goodwood, East Sussex, UK. He has installed a permanent series of sculptural benches in a park behind the Tate Britain in Pimlico, London. He has exhibited at leading international art fairs (Tefaf, Design Miami, PAD, etc.). Mayor lives and works in Doncaster, South Yorkshire.