Bernard Meadows

Meadows was born in Norwich in 1915, and studied art at the Norwich School of Art from 1934-36. He went on to study at the Royal College of Art from 1938-1940 and 1946-48, where he eventually became Professor of Sculpture later in his career. Meadows worked as a studio assistant to Henry Moore from 1936-1939, a relationship which he cherished, but also sought to distance himself from, through the subject matter of his work. In 1941-1946, Meadows served in the RAF and was stationed in the Coco Islands in the Indian Ocean where the greatest ...