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David Goode
David Goode was born in 1966 and raised in Staffordshire. He trained at The Sir Henry Doulton School of Sculpture where he specialised in portrait and figurative sculpture.
In 1988 he was offered a position as portrait sculptor at the Studios of Madame Tussauds in London. At 21 he was the youngest sculptor ever to have worked there.
In 1994 David became a freelance sculptor, taking on private commissions and exhibiting his own work. In the same year he was accepted into The Royal Society of British Sculptors.
In 1998 he opened his own studio gallery. Now extended, the gallery displays over thirty bronzes, and attracts collectors from all over the world,
David lives in Oxford with his wife Jo, sons Jake and Harry and
daughter Isabel.
At the age of eighteen David trained at The Sir Henry Doulton School of Sculpture, specialising in portrait and figurative sculpture.
In 1988 David became a portrait sculptor at the London Studios of Madame Tussauds.
At twenty-one he was the youngest sculptor ever to have been offered such a position and in his six years with Tussauds he was able to travel the world for sittings with many famous figures.
Some of his most notable works for Tussauds include Freddie Mercury, Joan Collins, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Ronald Reagan and Yasser Arafat.
In 1994 David became a freelance sculptor, taking on private commissions and exhibiting his own work.
The following year he produced the Snailmaker, the first piece in what would later become the goblin collection, which was introduced to the public eye at the Chelsea Flower Show of that year.
David has since returned to Oxford, where he now lives and works with his wife Jo, twin sons Jake and Harry and daughter Isabel (after whom ‘Isabel’s Goblin’ was named).