
Still Life with Jug, Fruit and Draperies 1959
Anthony Hatwell (1931–2013)
Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre
Sculptor and teacher, born in London, married to the artist Elizabeth Hatwell. He studied from 1947–9 and 1951–3 at Bromley College of Art; from 1952–3 at Borough Polytechnic with David Bomberg; from 1953–7 at Slade School of Fine Art; then gained a Boise Travelling Scholarship, 1957–8. Was assistant to Henry Moore, 1958. From 1969–90 was head of the school of sculpture at Edinburgh College of Art. Between 1959–69 Hatwell was a member of LG, its vice-president in 1961–3. Group exhibitions comprised Borough Bottega with Bomberg, 1953–5, in London, Oxford and Cambridge; Open Air Exhibition, Middelheim Park, Antwerp, 1959; Contemporary British Sculpture, Arts Council, 1960–4; Battersea Park Open Air Exhibition, 1963; LG Jubilee Exhibition, Tate Gallery, 1964; British Sculpture in the Twentieth Century, Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1981–2; Built in Scotland, Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, and tour, 1983; and Bomberg And His Students, South Bank University, 1992.
Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)