The Triangle Network , formally known as the Triangle Arts Trust , is an international arts organisation that brings together artists from different countries to explore new ideas and expand the boundaries of their practice.
7-400: The Triangle Network was established in 1982 by British businessman Robert Loder and sculptor Anthony Caro . It was initiated through a series of artists' workshops providing an uninterrupted period of two weeks where 20–25 artists from diverse cultural backgrounds engage with each other, to explore new ideas and expand the boundaries of their practice. David Elliott was appointed to chair
14-551: Is registered as a charitable organisation in the UK as the Triangle Arts Trust. Robert Loder Robert Beauclerk Loder , CBE (24 April 1934 – 22 July 2017) was an English businessman and art collector. He was particularly concerned in developing contemporary African art . Loder was the son of John Loder, 2nd Baron Wakehurst and his wife Margaret Tennant, daughter of Sir Charles Tennant, 1st Baronet . He
21-586: The Institute of Contemporary Arts and later its chairman in the 1970s. From 1968 he was a Trustee and for 10 years chair of the Mental Health Foundation , for which service he was appointed a CBE in the 1989 Birthday Honours . With the backing of Lord Rothschild , he built up a business with 2,000 employees in 30 countries. In 1982, he became executive chairman of the literary agency Curtis Brown . In 1980, Loder met Anthony Caro who
28-460: The board, succeeding Robert Loder who retired in 2009. Loder remained a trustee of the organization until 2012. The Triangle Network is organised as a network of artists, visual art organisations, and artists-led workshops. It currently is active in over 30 countries. Each centre within the Network is independent and set up to respond to local needs. The object of the workshops is "to counterbalance
35-458: The tendency of the Western art world to put the emphasis on the object and its marketing rather than on the creative process itself". It coalesces grassroots arts organisations around the world (many of which were initiated as workshops while others grew independently), so that artists' mobility, international cultural exchange and capacity building objectives can be shared. The Triangle Network
42-711: Was educated at Eton College and Cambridge University . From 1957 to 1966 he was employed by the Anglo American Corporation in Johannesburg and Lusaka . While in Johannesburg he helped run Union Artists, a black theatre group that played to mixed audiences in apartheid South Africa. In 1959 he founded the African Arts Trust , which supports black artists from South Africa . When he returned to London, Loder became treasurer of
49-920: Was trying to organise an exhibition of British abstract art in South African townships. In 1981, when staying in New York State, the pair developed the idea of running workshops for professional artists, which became the Triangle Arts Trust . They held the first Triangle workshop in 1982 for thirty sculptors and painters from United States, the United Kingdom and Canada at Pine Plains, New York . The workshops became an annual event, and Loder later helped organise similar workshops in South Africa, Zimbabwe , Botswana , Mozambique , Zambia , Jamaica and Namibia . From 1990 he ran
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