Biography and exhibitions

Hubert Dalwood

Born in Bristol 2 June 1924


Selected Solo Shows

2011

Hubert Dalwood Landscape into Sculpture, Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre

2010

Hubert Dalwood Landscape into Sculpture, Leeds City Art Gallery

2009
Hubert Dalwood Landscape into Sculpture, New Art Centre, Salisbury (England)

1996
Hubert Dalwood (1924-1976): Sculpture, Hebden Bridge

1990
Hubert Dalwood (1924-1976): Sculpture, Gimpel Fils, London

1982
Hubert Dalwood 1924-1976 , Gimpel Fils, London and New Art Centre at Roche Court, Salisbury

1980
Hubert Dalwood, Arcade Gallery, Harrogate

1979
Hubert Dalwood: Sculptures and Reliefs, Arts Council tour, Hayward Gallery, London; Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh; University Gallery, Leeds; Rochdale Art Gallery; Newport Museum and Art Gallery

1975
Hubert Dalwood: Sculpture, Dar Lel Fan, Beirut

1974
Hubert Dalwood: Sculpture, Museum of Fine Arts, Alexandria; The Bab-El-Louk, Cairo

1970
Hubert Dalwood, Gimpel Fils, London

1964
Hubert Dalwood, Forum Galleries, Bristol
Hubert Dalwood, Gimpel Fils, London

1962
Hubert Dalwood, Venice Biennale tour 1962-63

1960
Recent Sculpture by Hubert Dalwood, Gimepl Fils, London

1958
Studio exhibition, 37 University Road, Leeds

1957
Paintings by Harold Cohen; Sculpture by Hubert Dalwood, Gimpel Fils, London

1954
Six Young Contemporaries and Hubert Dalwood, Gimpel Fils, London


Selected Group Exhibitions

2019

Objects of Wonder: British Sculpture from the Tate Collection 1950’s – present, Palais Popular, Berlin, Germany. Catalogue

2018

A Frieze for Leeds: Imagining a Sculptural Façade for Leeds Art Gallery in 1968, Henry Moore Institute and Leeds Art Gallery.

2018

Gregory Fellowships at the University of Leeds from 1950-80, Symposium, Henry Moore Institute and Leeds Art Gallery

2017

That Continuous Thing: Artists and the Ceramics Studio 1920-Today, Tate St Ives

2007
Modern British Sculpture from the Arts Council Collection 1913-1966, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art – MIMA, Middlesbrough (England)

1999
Linhas de Sombra, Centro de Arte Moderna Jose de Azeredo Perdigao – Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon 

1998
St. Ives Connections: Dartington, Corsham, Leeds, Tate St. Ives

1997
New Art Centre at Roche Court, Salisbury

1995
New Art Centre at Roche Court, Salisbury

1992
New Art Centre at Roche Court, Salisbury

1989
Sculptures, Reliefs and Drawings, Gimpel Fils, London

1988
Sculpteurs anglais du XXe Siecle, Artcurial Centre d’art plastique contemporain, Paris

1986
British Sculpture 1950-1965, New Art Centre at Roche Court, Salisbury

1984
English Contrasts: Peintres et Sculpteurs Anglais 1950-1960, Artcurial Centre d’art plastique contemporain, Paris

1981
British Sculpture in the Twentieth Century, Part 2: Symbol and Imagination 1951-1980, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London

1980
Accrochage, Gimpel Fils, London
Sculpture in the Highlands: Landmark and Glenshee, Scottish Sculpture Trust, Carrbridge & Glenshee, Perthshire

1977
A Silver Jubilee Exhibition of Contemporary British Sculpture, Battersea Park, London
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
Contemporary Art Society for Wales

1976
Sculpture for the Collection: Purchases by Bryan Kneale, Arts Council of Great Britain
Grwp 56 Cymru/56 Group Wales, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff

1974 
Towards Ceramic Sculpture, Oxford Gallery, Oxford

1973
Magic and Strong Medicine, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

1972
British Sculptors ’72, Royal Academy, London
11 Sculptors, One Decade: Sculpture Bought by Hubert Dalwood for the Arts Council Collection, Serpentine Gallery, London
Kinetic Art, West Wales Art Association, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea

1971
University of Sussex

1970
Gallery Choice, Gimpel Fils, London
7 British Sculptors: Robert Adams, Kenneth Armitage, Hubert Dalwood, Bernard Meadows, Lynn Chadwick, Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, British Council and Anglo-Lebanese Association, Dar El Fan, Beirut
Open-Air Sculpture II, Gimpel Fils at Syon Park, London
AIA Retrospective 1930-1970, AIA Gallery, London

1969
10 Biennale voor Beeldhouwkunst, Middleheimpark, Antwerp
56 Group Wales, Grosvenor Gallery, London
Open-Air Sculpture I, Syon Park, London
Sculpture and Reliefs, Gimpel Fils, London 

1968
Contemporary Art Society for Wales: Recent Purchases, Welsh Arts Council tour
New British Sculpture, Bristol City Art Gallery
City of London Festival
III Symposium International des Sculpteurs, Horica v Podkrkonosi, Czechoslovakia
Three Ideas for Sculputre: An Exhibition of Projects, Leeds City Art Gallery

1967
Contemporary Sculpture, Gimpel Fils, London
International Sculpture Exhibition, Pittercrieff Park, Dunfermline
Collectors’ Choice XIV, Gimpel Fils, London
International Sculpture Symposium, High Park, Toronto
Sculpture 60-66, Arts Council tour 1967-8

1966
Collectors’ Choice XIV, Gimpel Fils, London
Sculpture in the Open-Air, Greater London Council, Battersea Park
Summer Exhibition, Gimpel Fils, London
New Dimensions, Hampstead Art Centre

1965
Painting and Sculpture by the 56 Group, Bear Lane Gallery, Oxford
British Sculpture in the Sixties, Tate Gallery, London
Sculpture in the Open-Air, Hampstead Artists Council, Fenton House, Hampstead Grove
Contemporary British Scultpure, Arts Council open-air tour
Collectors Choice XIII, Gimpel Fils, London
Nine Living British Sculptors, Lalit Kala Akademi and Britissh Council tour of India: Dehli, Calcutta, Madras, Bombay

1964
56 Group, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea
54-64: Painting and Sculpture of a Decade, Tate Gallery, London
Contemporary English Art, Stadische Kunstgalerie, Bochum

1963
Sculpture: Open-Air Exhibition of Contemporary British and American Works, London County Council, Battersea Park
Red, White and Blue, London Galleries, Leeds
Robert Adams and Hurbert Dalwood, Kunstamt Berlin Wilmersdorf
Englische Maler und Bildhauer, Gimpel Hanover Galerie, Zurich
7th International Art Exhibition, Japan

1962
Biennale des Jeunes, Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris
Constable to Bacon, An Exhibition of Nineteenth & Twentieth Century British Art, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario
Sculptors Today, Midland Group Gallery, Nottingham
British Art Today, San Francisco Museum of Art

1961
Contemporary British Sculpture, Arts Council open-air touring exhibition

1960
56 Group, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea
Gregory Memorial Exhibition, Leeds City Art Gallery
Sculpture in the Open-Air, London County Council
Sculptures, Artists International Association Gallery, London

1959
5 Biennale voor Beeldhouwkunst, Middelheimpark, Antwerp
Dalwood, Burra and Greaves, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
Gregory Memorial Exhibition, Leeds Town Hall
The John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 2, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
British Artists Craftsmen: An Exhibition of Contemporary Work, exhibition toured through USA by Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.

1958
International Beeldententoonstelling in den open lucht, Park Sonsbeek, Arnhem
Summer Exhibition, Gimpel Fils, London
The Gregory Fellowship Exhibition, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
The Religious Theme, Contemporary Arts Society, Tate Gallery, London
1958 Pittsburgh Bicentennial International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh

1957
Sculpture 1850-1950, 4th London County Council open-air exhibition, Holland Park
Contemporary British Sculpture, Arts Council open-air tour, Nottingham, Southampton,
Cardiff, Penzance, Cheltenham
Summer Exhibition, Gimpel Fils, London
Vision and Reality: an Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Wakefield City Art Gallery
The John Moores Liverpool Exhibition, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

1956
Contemporary British Painting and Sculpture, Arthur Jeffress, London
Summer Exhibition, Gimpel Fils, London
Yngre Brittiska Skulptorer, British Council Tour of Sweden

1955
Contemporary Welsh Painting and Sculpture, Arts Council of Great Britain Welsh Committee tour: National Museum of Wales, Cardiff; Newport Museum and Art Gallery
Summer Exhibition, Gimpel Fils, London
Young Sculptors and Painter-Sculptors, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London

1954
Of Light and Colour, Gimpel Fils, London
Items for Collectors, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London

1953
Royal West of England Academy, Bristol

1952
Young Sculptors, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Annual Review of Works by Artists of Gallery Gimpel Fils, Gimpel Fils, London

1950
Summer Exhibition, Gimpel Fils, London

1949
Summer Exhibition, Gimpel Fils, London

Selected bibliography

Hubert Dalwood, ‘Notebook’, Art and Artists: The International Art Guide, November 1970.
Hubert Dalwood, ‘Introduction’, Eleven Sculptors, One Decade: Sculpture Bought by Hubert Dalwood for the Arts Council Collection [exh. cat.], (London: Arts Council, 1971).
Alexander Harrison, Challenging De Gaulle: The O.A.S. and the Counterrevolution in Algeria, 1954-62 (London & NY: Praeger, 1989).
Norbert Lynton, Hubert Dalwood: Sculptures and Reliefs (London: Arts Council, 1979).
Norbert Lynton, ‘Hubert Dalwood’, in Ceri Richards, Robert Adams, Hubert Dalwood[Venice exh. cat.] (London: The British Council, 1962).
Norbert Lynton, ‘An End to Visual Muzak’, The Guardian, 17th February 1970.
Robert Mason, Personal knowledge & Studio Assistant’s Logbook (2009).
William Packer, ‘Hubert Dalwood’, The Financial Times, 30th January 1979.
Chris Stephens, ‘Dalwood, Hubert Cyril (1924-1976)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: OUP, 2004).
Chris Stephens, The Sculpture of Hubert Dalwood (Much Hadham: The Henry Moore Foundation in association with Lund Humphries, 1999).
Francis Watson, ‘Hubert Dalwood’, Arts Review, 2nd February 1979.

Hubert Dalwood died in London at Bartholomews Hospital on 2 November 1976.

Portrait of Hubert Dalwood by Terry Frost, oil on canvas, painted possibly early 1950’s. In the collection of Kathy and Alison Dalwood