Clement Meadmore

Wingspan

In conjunction with
The Meadmore Foundation, New York

2 – 30 May 2026
opening 3-5pm Saturday 2 May

Robin Gibson Gallery is the authorised Australian agent for The Meadmore Foundation

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
Clement Meadmore (1929 – 2005) is often described as Australia’s greatest modernist sculptor, however he is also recognised as one of our greatest artistic exports

Born in Melbourne in 1929, Meadmore originally studied aeronautical engineering at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) in Australia. Although he never worked in the field, the skills he learned here equipped him handsomely with the understandings and practical skills needed for a short but successful career designing bespoke furniture (1949 – late 1950s) and later his sculpture practice

After moving to New York City in 1963, Clement Meadmore began an exploration which was to develop into the central theme of his practice for the next four decades. It focused on variations of elongated, squared metal forms with understated surfaces

After a long and successful career as a sculptor abroad, Clement Meadmore died in New York City on April 19, 2005. He contributed a legacy of sculpture which was collected and installed across the US, Japan, Mexico and Australia