Richard Deacon fills the Royal Academy’s ‘sculpture ledge’

The artist and Royal Academician Richard Deacon has redisplayed the sculpture ledge on the top floor of the Royal Academy of Arts (RA) in London in time for the launch of the RAs next blockbuster show in its Sackler Galleries, Matisse in the Studio, which opens to the public next week (5 August-12 November).
 
The first artist-led redisplay of 21 works by fellow Academicians include Anthony Caros Mouchoir from his Cascade series (1990), which drapes over the plinth on the stone ledge, the R