Andrew Logan is a sculptor, jewellery-maker and designer, as well as being the inventor and impresario of The Alternative Miss World.


He has two striking sculpted portraits in the National Portrait Gallery's Contemporary Collection of the fashion designer Zandra Rhodes and the ballerina Lynn Seymour. In 1991 he opened the Andrew Logan Museum of Sculpture at Berriew in Powys.


Twenty years ago I interviewed Andrew in his Glasshouse London studio for a film for the Gallery’s IT Gallery and which can be now viewed on the Gallery’s website. In this film he explained how she works and how the portraits in the Gallery’s Collection evolved.

Artists featured in this Curation: Andrew Logan (b.1945)
5 artworks
  • Zandra Rhodes (b.1940)

    Logan described how the portrait of Rhodes came about


    'I had lost my last studio I think in a fire in the late 70s and we were lodgers in her house in St Stephen’s Gardens and I was working in her attic which didn’t have a floor. So to me this seemed the perfect opportunity to do a portrait of Zandra because there she was the sitter right there where I was living. So this began, and she would come up to the attic, climb up the ladder - there was no staircase - and sit there for ... well, a couple of hours ... I suppose the one that you see now represents that period, which I think someone once described it as made of pink bubble gum and I think that is actually a rather good description of it.'

    Zandra Rhodes (b.1940) 1989
    Andrew Logan (b.1945)
    Glass
    H 56 x W 27 x D 29.5 cm
    National Portrait Gallery, London
    Zandra Rhodes (b.1940)
    © the artist. Image credit: National Portrait Gallery, London

  • Rajas Zandra

    Logan explained how his love of decoration evolved


    'I trained as an architect, I’m a self-taught artist and you have to remember for anyone who has never done architectural training but when I was doing it in the sixties it was all straight lines in black-and-white and very, very constraining. I’ve always loved very elaborate things, so when I started to make things and began a life as an artist, I just collected things and I love what I would call, or what Duggie Fields my friend would call, maximalism, not minimalism, that’s gone and dead, we’re ‘maximalists’ which means really, one layer on top of another.'

    Rajas Zandra 1982
    Andrew Logan (b.1945)
    Aluminium sheet, fibreglass, fabric, glass, glitter, found objects & resin
    H 241 x W 167 x D 167 cm
    Andrew Logan Museum of Sculpture
    Rajas Zandra
    © the artist. Image credit: Andrew Logan Museum of Sculpture

  • Michael Davis

    Logan has said about his mirrored portraits


    'The materials I use really come from all over the world. I’ve been working as a sculptor now in glass and mirror for over thirty-two years. So you find a lot just arrives, but there’s a thin glass that I get from Thailand which they use on the temples and then there’s painted glass as well. And then I work with a man in East End of London who also coats glass for me and the mirror is much thinner than normal mirror because obviously you don’t make mirror thin or otherwise it would smash which is what people don’t want, which I support very much.'

    Michael Davis 1989
    Andrew Logan (b.1945)
    Glass, resin & glitter
    H 63 x W 45 x D 2 cm
    Andrew Logan Museum of Sculpture
    Michael Davis
    © the artist. Image credit: Andrew Logan Museum of Sculpture

  • Lynn Seymour (b.1939)

    'Working with Lynn Seymour was very, very close, with all my sitters really I believe very much ... as I always say to all of my sitters: ‘I am going to take part of your soul’. So for me it is a collaborative process whereby you both work together. Say for instance I might be working on the nose and it might have grown too long and I’ll say to Lynn “Oh, what do you think?”, “Oh” she says “too long!” so I’ll chop it off. Then when later on we were doing the metalwork, I’ll never forget Lynn, we were bending the metal, and she suddenly said “No, she suddenly said “No, no this drape isn’t quite right!” and she leapt on the piece and pulled it and smashed it, so yes it was truly a collaborative process.'

    Lynn Seymour (b.1939) 1987–1993
    Andrew Logan (b.1945)
    Copper sheet, glass & resin
    H 246.5 cm
    National Portrait Gallery, London
    Lynn Seymour (b.1939)
    © the artist. Image credit: National Portrait Gallery, London

  • The Lulu Fountain

    In 1991 Logan and his partner Michael Davis opened the Andrew Logan Museum of Sculpture, in a redundant space in Berriew in Powys, designed by Davis. It is, as described on Logan's own website


    'a delightful and absorbing experience that combines entertainment, sentiment, humour and fantasy in a manor that is suitable for all ages.'

    The Lulu Fountain 1983
    Andrew Logan (b.1945)
    Fibreglass, glass, glitter, resin, wood, metal, found objects & water
    H 277 x W 221 x D 221 cm
    Andrew Logan Museum of Sculpture
    The Lulu Fountain
    © the artist. Image credit: Andrew Logan Museum of Sculpture