Roland Piché was born in London in 1938 and emerged in the early sixties as a radical student from Hornsey College of Art and the Royal College of Art.

During his eight years of study he was recognised as an independent new voice supported by Henry Moore, who he worked for part-time, by Francis Bacon and Bryan Robertson who through the New Generation Exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery soon attracted the Marlborough Fine Art Galleries.

Piché’s work did not belong to any school of thought or group and his work has always been complex and contradictory. The influence and admiration of American art together with the inheritance of the humanist European traditions and the formal issues of Ancient Egyptian art in the context of ideas from the oriental attitudes and philosophy, made his evolution problematic and seemingly divided: the struggle and quest to resolve this is evident in most of his work.

He taught sculpture at Honours Degree level as Head of Sculpture at Maidstone and Canterbury Colleges of Art. In 2003 he left teaching to concentrate on giving more focus to his work and ideas and in that year was commissioned by Lovells to make and present two large sculptures for their Paris headquarters. Currently he has been selected to place sculpture in Richard Rogers’ new building in the City – One, London Wall and to have a show of his Ground Zero Monument proposal in the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds.