The Sculptures of Clement Meadmore
Hudson Hills Press 1994
Born Melbourne, Australia 1929
Died New York, USA 2005
Clement Meadmore studied engineering and industrial design at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, graduating in 1949. He created his first welded sculptures in the 1950s and had several exhibitions in Australia between 1954 and 1962, before moving to New York in 1963.
Meadmore is recognised as one of the most significant Modernist sculptors, bridging the gap between Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism. He sought to express what he called ‘the grammar of geometry’ beginning with the simple forms of a cube and a quarter circle. The artist sought to create emotive pieces that are at once expansive and fluid; monumental and weightless.
Public collections include: National Gallery of Australia (Canberra), Art Gallery of New South Wales (Sydney), Art Gallery of Western Australia (Perth), Art Gallery of South Australia (Adelaide), Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago), Adachi Outdoor Sculpture Collection (Yasugi City, Japan), Cleveland Museum of Art (Cleveland), Columbia University (New York), TarraWarra Museum of Art (Victoria). His works are also found in corporate and private collections throughout Australia, Asia, Europe and the United States.
Benjamin Armstrong, Stephen Bram, Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley, Angela de la Cruz, Mikala Dwyer, Clement Meadmore, Mike Parr
In abstraction, the body
28th April – 16th June 2012
Anna Schwartz Gallery Carriageworks
Clement Meadmore
New Sculptures
7th September – 16th October 2004
Anna Schwartz Gallery
Clement Meadmore
1st – 26th February 2000
Anna Schwartz Gallery