1935 | Born Nantwich, Cheshire |
1956-60 | Studied BA (Hons) Fine Art, King's College, University of Durham |
1961-84 | Taught Sculpture at Sunderland and Wolverhampton Colleges |
1985-Present | Full time practising artist 1985 |
Founder member and a Vice President of BAMS and of the International Art Medal Federation.
Exhibited extensively in solo and group exhibitions in the UK and abroad.
Venues have included :
A major retrospective was held at the Royal Coin Cabinet of Sweden in 2004.
Work is in many international public and private collections and commissioned medals undertaken for private and public clients including The Royal Mint and The British Museum.
Many articles written by Dutton have appeared in The Medal, the journal of the British Art Medal Society and critiques and comment on his work have been included in many other journals.
Particularly comprehensive publications have been: The Art of the Medal, Mark Jones, British Museum Publications, 1980. Circles in Bronze, A survey of work 1964 -1992, Wolverhampton Art Gallery 1992. Ron Dutton, A life making marks, Frances Simmons, Simmons Gallery, London 1999 and Ron Dutton - From Landscape to Lunarscape, Marie-Astrid Voisin, The Royal Coin Cabinet, Sweden, 2004.