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)


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