Bernard Meadows
The Shot Bird
1958
Bronze
S.6

Bernard Meadows b.1915

Meadows first attracted international attention at the 1952 Venice Biennale when his work was exhibited in the British Pavilion alongside sculptures by Robert Adams andKenneth Armitage. Meadows has been obsessed in his work with the representation of fear, first with frightened birds, and then with frightening armed figures. It is only in the later part of his long career, in the works of the late 1970s and early 1980s, that the mood changes, and a more sensuous, erotic element invades the sculptures and drawings.