Robert Adams 1917 - 1984

Born in Northampton, England in 1917 Adams studied at Northampton School of Art from 1933 and had his first one man exhibition in 1947, showing organic wood and plaster abstract carvings reminiscent of Henry Moore. Adams spent time in Paris in the late 1940s where he saw works by Constantin Brancussi. He taught at Central School of Art and Design, London from 1949-1960 and represented Britain at the 1962 Venice Biennale. Robert Adams died in 1984.

works in the collection - 2

PAC/074

Adams, who taught industrial design at the Central School of Art in London, exhibited with Pasmore and the Constructionist group between 1951 and 1956. In keeping with their interest in linking architecture and art Adams made a number of non-representational architectural reliefs, most significantly in 1959 at the Municipal Theatre, Gelsenkirchen in Germany.

Relief, 1955


PAC/086

Woman, 1965