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Clement Meadmore
(Untitled), c. 1960
SOLD
Catalogue number: 7
welded steel on marble base
36.50 x 30.00 x 17.00
Exhibited: Possibly Peter Upward - Paintings and Clement Meadmore - Sculpture, Macquarie Galleries, 1961, in which both artists exhibited four large works together with a number of smaller pieces; Meadmore exhibited four large works (70-160gns) and three smaller works - Monolith, High Society and Duolith - together with seven "Studies" priced around 15gns.
Literature & references: Daniel Thomas, Geometry of Body and Soul - the Sculptures of Clement Meadmore, Art and Australia Vol. 48 No. 2 Summer 2010, p. 295 "Those first sculptures - made from encrusted welded-steel rods or roughened ragged sheets - were wall-hung Mondrianesque space planes. Included in a 1959 show at the newly established Gallery A (which Meadmore had persuaded Max Hutchinson to open in the designer's rooms in Flinders Lane) was a single large floor-based work titled Bastion. According to the exhibition's essayist William Hannan, the freestanding construction 'demands viewing from all sides, which involves also standing inside, so that one may experience the feeling of enclosure, might be overcome by its size, bigger apparently than actually... [Meadmore's art] threatens, disturbs, unsettles, guards a mystery which arouses the emotions' "
Exhibition Catalogue
Composition 154
Robert Klippel
1963
welded metals (brazed steel, bronze), 33.00 x 40.00 x 6.00
(Untitled)
Clement Meadmore
c. 1960
welded steel on marble base, 36.50 x 30.00 x 17.00
SOLD
Since its establishment in 1984, the Charles Nodrum Gallery’s exhibition program embraces a diversity of media and styles - from painting, sculpture & works on paper to graphics and photography; from figurative, geometric, gestural, surrealist & social comment to installation & conceptually based work.