Clement Meadmore
Installation photo of Clement Meadmore 2023 exhibition
Sculptures from The Estate of
Clement Meadmore
In conjunction with
The Clement Meadmore Foundation New York
5 – 26 August 2023
With their stark power and smooth surfaces, Meadmore’s sculptures combine Minimalism’s devotion to pure geometric form with the evocative powers of Abstract Expressionism. They are also influenced by the rhythms and improvisational quality of jazz, an art form he passionately admired. His best pieces were studies in line, form, movement and balance.
As well as numerous public works in the United States and Australia, his work can be found in the collections of many public galleries including the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Gallery of Australia Canberra, and The Art Gallery of NSW.
Born in Melbourne Australia in 1929, Meadmore studied aeronautical engineering at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology before switching to industrial design. In the 1950’s, while working as a furniture designer, he made his first welded sculptures.
After a short stint in Sydney, he moved to the United States in the 1960s and lived in Manhattan until his death in 2005.
Taken in part from The New York Times 2005 obituary by Margalit Fox
