Geoffrey Clarke
British sculptor
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Life and work
Clarke was a student of Ronald Grimshaw and attended the Royal College of Art in 1948 after serving in the RAF. He received the silver medal at the Milan Triennale[specify] for a collaboration with the furniture designer, Robin Day.[3][failed verification] He was part of a group of artists including Lynn Chadwick, Reg Butler and Kenneth Armitage who in 1952 was exhibited in the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. They were described by art critic Herbert Read as "the geometry of fear sculptors".[4] He was commissioned to create the cross of nails for Coventry Cathedral and also worked on three of the nave windows between 1957 and 1962.[5] In 1965 he had a retrospective at The Redfern Gallery, London and his work is also held at the Tate Gallery.[6] Clarke was made a Royal Academician in 1975.
He was the subject of the Shell Film Unit film Cast in a New Mould.[2]
Illustrations of works
- Movement Equivalent On display on the Bedford campus of the University of Bedfordshire.
- Cuthbert Bardsley Cross at Coventry Cathedral, 1962.
- Stained-glass windows at Coventry Cathedral.
- Orion House (formerly Thorn House), St Martin's Lane, London. 1960.
- Lincoln Cathedral stained-glass window
- A Snake In The Orchard, Jesus College, Cambridge
- Stained-glass window at King's Lynn Minster, Norfolk.
- The Crown of Thorns spire, St Michael's Parish Church, Linlithgow, 1964
- Relief (‘Bubble Chamber Tracks’), University of Liverpool, 1968