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Born in Kampala, Uganda, in 1952, Christophe Gordon-Brown came to England when he was ten and attended school in South and North Wales. He then moved to Cambridge, where he completed his A levels at the Cambridgeshire College of Arts & Technology. Long fascinated by forms and stones, Gordon-Brown then contemplated training as a sculptor, but decided to opt for a more secure future and trained as a goldsmith. Following his studies at Loughborough College of Art and Design, he went travelling and spent a year working on boats on the Amazon and in hotels and restaurants in Columbia and Peru. Back in England, Gordon-Brown set up a workshop in Loughborough. In 1985, he decided to return to Cambridge and worked as a jewellery designer on Magdalene Street. Ten years later, Gordon-Brown moved to his own premises on Grantchester Street in Newnham.

Shortly after a burglary at his workshop, Gordon-Brown had a chance conversation with an elderly lady who commissioned him to produce an original sculpture. He accepted the challenge and has produced more than seventy sculptures since. The devastating burglary aside, Gordon-Brown has not looked back and has recently won a major competition for a large-scale sculpture for Robinson College, Cambridge.

Further to his work as a goldsmith and sculptor, Christophe also regularly teaches spoon-making in Ireland and runs sculpture workshops alongside an ‘open-access’ use of his studio in Cambridge. He is also an accomplished poet. Christophe Gordon-Brown lives in Cambridge.