Bio
(1914-2003). Sculptor in metal, born in London. He is noted for his mobiles and for abstract shapes, dancing children and waiting and watching figures. After education at Merchant Taylors’ School, although Chadwick wanted to become a sculptor, his family persuaded him to enter an architect’s office, and he stayed an architectural draughtsman until World War II, when he became a Fleet Air Arm pilot. Working with the architect Rodney Thomas after the war Chadwick began experimenting with mobiles, partly inspired by the work of Alexander Calder. First showed at LG in 1950, in that year having an initial one-man show at Gimpel Fils.
He gained a National Prize in The Unknown Political Prisoner competition in 1953; also won the International Sculpture Prize at Venice Biennale, 1956, and First Prize at Concorso Internazionale del Bronzetto, in Padua, 1959.
Chadwick exhibited regularly with Marlborough Gallery since 1961. He also exhibited extensively around the world, being represented in many major collections, including Tate Gallery and Museum of Modern Art, New York. He had a retrospective at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, 1991–2; there was a solo show in 2001 at Beaux Arts, in which along with Tate Britain, he was given a retrospective in 2003. Another exhibition came on that same year: Coming from the Dark, at Gallery Pangolin, Chalford.
The artist lived at Stroud, Gloucestershire.
SOURCES: ArtUK