Sculptor and craftsman in wood, born in Leeds, Yorkshire, who moved to London in 1960. He studied at Oxford Polytechnic, 1972–3; moved to Wiltshire, 1974; attended the John Makepeace School for Craftsmen in Wood, 1977–9; and set up his own workshop in Wiltshire, 1979–83. Partridge’s awards included a Crafts Council Setting Up Grant, 1980; Jugend Gestalt Prize, Exempla, Munich, West Germany, and selection for the Crafts Council’s Index of Selected Makers, both 1981; fellowship at Crewe and Alsager College, in Cheshire, 1983–4; World Crafts Council Prize, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, 1986; Crafts Council Bursary, 1992; West Midlands Bursary, 1995; and a research fellowship, Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College, 1999–02. Partridge moved to Shropshire in 1984, met his partner Liz Walmsley in 1986 and with her formed a partnership to handle site-specific outdoor projects in 1988.