After working as an engineer in the Royal Navy during the Second World War, Hubert Dalwood (1924-1976) studied at Bath Academy of Art. After a trip to Sicily and Milan on an Italian Government Scholarship, he was awarded the Gregory Fellowship at Leeds University.

Before 1956 Dalwood's sculptures were mainly of figures often warped and disfigured to suit his intentions but later shifted from figurative subjects, turning to abstract forms, eventually removing all allusions to the human form that remained. These later works remain surprising in scale, surface and composition. He worked in clay, modelling by hand which left finger prints and marks on the service when the works were cast.

Sensitive and distinctive, his work was chosen for display at the 1962 Venice Biennale and he was soon in league with the leading post-war British sculptors of his time. His 1959 work, Large Object, won the John Moore's prize in 1959.

He taught at a number of art schools, including at Central School of Arts and Crafts where he started as Head of Sculpture in 1974, dying two years later. A retrospective of his work was shown by the Arts Council of Great Britain.

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