Hubert Dalwood I Celebrating 100 Years
Hubert Dalwood, Untitled, 1974-75, Bronze, 173 x 154 x 124 cm / 68 x 60 ⅝ x 48 ¾ in.
Edition 2 of 2
This week, we have been celebrating Hubert Dalwood on the centenary of his birth.
Hubert Dalwood was born in Bristol on the 2nd June 1924. After working as an engineer in the Royal Navy during the Second World War, Dalwood studied at Bath Academy of Art. Following a trip to Sicily and Milan on an Italian Government Scholarship, he was awarded the Gregory Fellowship at Leeds University.
Before 1956, Hubert Dalwood's sculptures were mainly figurative. In the early 1950s, he worked as an assistant to Barbara Hepworth in St Ives, helping her with the casting of a clenched fist she had carved in stone. In the same year, Dalwood carved an oversized fist in Alabaster, Hand, currently exhibited at Roche Court Sculpture park and one of the only examples of his use of this material.
Later, his sculpture became increasingly abstract, 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 fingerprints and marks when the works were cast. Aluminium was often used by Dalwood in the late 1960s and 1970s, the surface of these sculptures deliberately recalling the lumpy and weathered surfaces of the landscapes surrounding him. His work was chosen for display at the 1962 Venice Biennale where he was awarded the David E. Bright Sculpture Prize.
Hubert Dalwood's work is represented in many private and public collections including Tate Gallery, London; Art Council of Great Britain; Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York; Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Leeds City Art Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum.
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Double Bowl, 1962, Aluminium, 35.5 x 63.5 x 25.3 cm / 1ft 2 x 2ft 1 x 10 in.
White and Orange, 1964, Aluminium and Wood, 56 x 101 x 65 cm / 1ft 10 x 3ft 3 ⁷⁄₁₀ x 2ft 1 ½ in.
Left: Otera Relief, 1975, Aluminium, 65 x 89 x 4 cm / 25 ½ x 35 x 1 ½ in.
Right: Relief: Bergamo, 1958, Aluminium, 60 x 98 x 20 cm / 1ft 11 ⅝ x 3ft 2 ⅝ x 7 ⅞ in.
Hand, c. 1950
Alabaster
23.5 x 14 x 12 cm
9 ¼ x 5 ½ x 4 ⁷⁄₁₀ in.