Clement Meadmore studied industrial design in his native Australia, then decided instead to become a sculptor.  While a young artist, his work was highly regarded and he was awarded a number of exhibitions, including several one-person shows in Melbourne and Sydney.  Meadmore moved to New York in 1963 at the age of 34 and later became a United States citizen.

Cor-ten steel became his preferred medium.  His powerful but spare works were often fabricated at Lippincott, Inc., in Connecticut, a plant that was specially developed to strictly produce works of art.  Meadmore has explored variations of elongated, squared metal tubes in a majority of his works.  In the mid-1970s, his sculptures became more complex; the single bar divided, moving into multiple directions while the surfaces remained understated, painted a matte black or left to rust.  Offshoot is an example of that development, as a single, squared tube twists upward to join a massive horizontal section which then divides and turns once more.  An illusion of lightness is created as the dark horizontal piece balances effortlessly in spite of its weight and length of twenty-four feet.

Meadmore is represented in collections at major museums in Australia, as well as at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Detroit Institute of Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Portland Art Museum and others in the United States and Japan.  Large-scale sculptures have been installed on college campuses throughout the country, including Princeton University.  One-person exhibitions have been held at the Contemporary Sculpture Center, Tokyo; Amarillo Art Center, TX; Grand Rapids Art Museum, MI; Albuquerque Museum, NM; Jacksonville Art Museum, FL; and Columbus Museum of Art, OH.  At the age of 76, Meadmore died in New York City on April 19, 2005.

More information on this artist can be found at http://www.meadmore.com/.

Offshoot, 1982
painted aluminum, 2/2
120" x 288" x 144"
Courtesy of The Sculpture Foundation, Inc.
Photo: Ricardo Barros.com