history

Triangle Artists’ Workshop was founded in 1982 by the internationally acclaimed British sculptor, Sir Anthony Caro, and Robert Loder, a London based collector and businessman, in order to alleviate the loneliness of the studio by offering artists contact with peers and discussions with visiting artists and critics.

Triangle is an annual two week work session for professional artists from around the world. Neither a colony nor a school, Triangle offers a unique occasion for artists to meet and exchange ideas, not simply through talking, but by making art side by side for a concentrated period in a self-contained location.

It is a place for professionals who seek a stimulating environment and dialogue with their peers. It is about process, not about product.

Since its inception, Triangle has become increasingly international and the approaches of the participating artists increasingly diverse. Artists with widely diverging backgrounds and often different conceptions of what art can be have come from 19 countries on all 6 continents, to date. Confronted by new ideas and new points of view, detached from familiar surroundings and entrenched habits, they often find the courage to deepen established lines of inquiry or to explore fresh possibilities.

Triangle New York is the “mother workshop” of an informal family of workshops in fifteen countries; its advisory board is composed of professionals from the arts and business communities in Canada and Great Britain.

A separately funded sister organization, Triangle France, run by an international board of arts professionals, administers Triangle’s residency and exhibition programs in Marseille.

The Triangle Trust UK administers the Gasworks gallery and studios in London.

Triangle Trust:
www.trianglearts.org

Triangle France:
www.trianglefrance.org