GEOFFREY DASHWOOD
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ISBN 978-1-901403-30-5
Monumental Hen Harrier
FOREWORD
It is with great pleasure that we welcome Geoffrey back to the Sladmore with his first one-man exhibition for over 10 years. Since his last show with us in 2011, Geoffrey has not only continued to capture a wide range of our avian friends in his own distinct style but has also sculpted a selection of British mammals.
It is interesting to see how his work has evolved over the last decade. If anything, the form is more simplified. The attitude in contrast, is more intense. With the mammals in particular, the sculptural form as a whole, seems to be more predominant. Geoffrey’s exquisite signature patinas, which have become a hallmark of his oeuvre render his birds and mammals instantly recognisable
Geoffrey Dashwood’s work has always been wonderfully tactile. In its emphasis on pure form it allows us, as we walk around the sculpture, to see and to feel different aspects, preferred vantage points and particular nuances. His sculpture interacts with the environment and shares our space in a way that a painting never can.
We look forward to welcoming you to the exhibition.
SARAH TAFT
EDWARD HORSWELL
SEPTEMBER 2024
Monumental Harris Hawk
CATALOGUE
“ Birds have been my passion since childhood and I am constantly and inexplicably drawn to them as subjects for my sculpture. However, I occasionally feel the urge to indulge in other subject matter. Although the majority of my work is avian, mammals and one amphibian native to Britain are the subjects of some new sculptures created over the past 12 months ”
“ I find very small birds fascinating. They are weighed in grams and yet their miniscule frames incorporate all the essential biological elements to sustain life – to think, see, breathe, feed, digest, reproduce and fly! I have watched the quick delicate movements of various small birds and have worked in the studio with the tiny corpses of the wren and goldcrest. Their miniaturisation is almost beyond comprehension ”
GEOFFREY DASHWOOD
RED BREASTED GOOSE
2021
Bronze from an edition of 12 Height: 12.5 in (31.5 cm)
2023
Bronze from an edition of 15
Height: 10 in (25.5 cm)
AVOCET
2015
Bronze from an edition of 12
Height: 16 in (41 cm)
CURLEW
CHOUGH
Bronze from an edition of 12 Height: 11.5 in (29.5 cm)
GREAT NORTHERN DIVER
2015
Bronze from an edition of 12
Height: 15.7 in (40 cm)
TURNSTONE
2021
Bronze from an edition of 15
Height: 5 in (12.5 cm)
Bronze from an edition of 15
Height: 6.5 in (17 cm)
DIPPER
KINGFISHER
Bronze from an edition of 15
Height: 12 in (30 cm)
Bronze from an edition of 12
Height: 12 in (30 cm)
BARN OWL 2016
2015
Bronze from an edition of 12
Height: 19.7 in (50 cm)
TAWNY OWL
2021
Bronze form an edition of 12
Height: 12 in (30 cm)
GREEN WOODPECKER (VERTICAL)
GREEN WOODPECKER
Bronze from an edition of 15
Height: 7.8 in (19.5 cm)
BRAMBLING
Bronze from an edition of 15
Height: 6 in (15.3 cm)
NUTHATCH
Bronze from an edition of 15
Height: 5 in (13 cm
CHAFFINCH
2019
Bronze from an edition of 15
Height: 5 in (13 cm)
Bronze from an edition of 25
Height: 3 in (8 cm)
GOLDCREST
Bronze from an edition of 24
Height: 4.3 in (11 cm)
ROBIN 2016
Bronze from an edition of 50 Height: 3 in (8 cm)
OSPREY
2017
Bronze from an edition of 12
Height: 15.5 in (39 cm)
HOBBY
Bronze from an edition of 12
Height: 12.5 in (31.5 cm)
HOODED CROW
2021
Bronze from an edition of 12
Height: 12.5 in (31.5 cm)
Bronze from an edition of 12
Height: 33.5 in (85 cm)
AMERICAN EAGLE 2017
Monumental ‘Muse’
Bronze from an edition of 12
Height: 12.5 in (31.5 cm)
RABBIT 2023
Bronze from an edition of 12 Height: 4.7 in (12 cm)
MUNTJAC FAWN 2023
2023
Bronze from an edition of 15
Height: 2 in (5 cm)
GLIS GLIS
RED SQUIRREL 2023
Bronze from an edition of 15 Height: 9.5 in (24.5 cm)
WEASEL
2023
Bronze from an edition of 15
Height: 8 in (20.5 cm)
Bronze from an edition of 25 Height: 2.5 in (6 cm)
FROG 2023
Monumental Peregrine Falcon
BIOGRAPHY
Geoffrey Dashwood was born in Hampshire in 1947. At the age of fifteen he won a place on merit to study fine art at Southampton College of Art but preferring an outdoor life and studying directly from nature he left soon afterwards.
For five years he worked for the Forestry Commission as a keeper in the New Forest but after producing the illustrations for a New Forest guide for the Commission, most of his time was soon taken up illustrating for them, the Countryside Committee, Hampshire County Council and for various others. This work gave him the confidence to become a freelance artist and for the following ten years he concentrated on illustrations, drawings, and watercolours.
However, in 1980 Geoffrey discovered a preference for working in three dimensions of sculpture. His first pieces were small, highly detailed, realistic studies echoing his earlier drawings, very much in the mainstream tradition of English wildlife and sporting art and comparable in style to the famous 19th century French animalier school of sculpture. Although commercially
successful, Geoffrey became increasingly dissatisfied with the restrictions of devout realism and a lack of personal expression.
Finally, he broke away to create larger, boldly modelled sculptures which, contrastingly, were a very personal interpretation of nature, their form simplified and abstracted with echoes of twentieth-century masters like Pompon and Brancusi. Their individuality was further determined and enhanced by the application of original multi-coloured patinas. The essential character and personality of a species is well established in bronzes which, more importantly, succeed and delight as pure sculptural form. A number of sculptors now work in a similar style, but, in our opinion, none come close to Geoffrey’s work with his innate understanding of each individual subject.
His unusual lifestyle and approach to art was the subject of a half-hour documentary film made by TVS. Over the last twenty years Geoffrey’s sculpture has won many awards, including best sculpture at the Society of Wildlife Artists three years running and also first prize for sculpture at the International
Festival De L’Art Animalier, Loire Valley, France. Many of his models have been selected by the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Museum for exhibition in their annual shows. In addition, his life-size sculpture was the subject of major retrospective exhibition held at the Nature in Art Museum in Gloucestershire, England, the first living artist the museum accorded with such an honour. His life-size and monumental works have been a particular success at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition for many years. He was given a retrospective exhibition at the Lymington Museum in southern England in 2002. His 2 metre high, monumental sculpture of a Tawny Owl was situated at the main entrance to the Financial Services Authority building in Canary Wharf, London.
Geoffrey’s exhibitions continue to create huge interest with complete editions of bronzes selling out. His exhibitions in New York, Paris, Sydney, Moscow and other international shows and art fairs have helped maintain his reputation as the originator and principal proponent of his particular brand of avian sculpture.
PAST EXHIBITIONS
2024
Recent Works In Bronze, at the artist’s studio, May 2024
Hampshire Open Studios at the artist’s studio, gallery and sculpture gardens
2023
Hampshire Open Studios at the artist’s studio, gallery and sculpture gardens
2022
Hampshire Open Studios at the artist’s studio, gallery and sculpture gardens
2019
Biennial exhibition. At the artist’s studio, gallery and sculpture garden.
2018
National Museum of Wildlife Art of the United States. 2018–2019, Jackson, Wyoming. Group exhibition ‘Living Legends’
Art in Nature Exhibition at Jardinique. 4th - 7th of May 2018. 10am–4pm.
Old Park Farm, Abbey Road, Beech, Alton, GU34 4AP
Hampshire Open Studios at the artist’s studio, gallery and sculpture gardens
2017
Re-opening of fully refurbished St Barbe Museum and Art Gallery, Lymington , Hampshire. Birds of the New Forest by Geoffrey Dashwood and Chris Packham
2016
Biennial exhibition. At the artist’s studio, gallery and sculpture garden.
Hampshire Open Studios at the artist’s studio, gallery and sculpture gardens
2015
Courcoux Contemporary, The Medieval Hall, Salisbury. Mixed media exhibition
Hampshire Open Studios at the artist’s studio, gallery and sculpture gardens
2014
Palais des Vaches, Exbury, ‘Spring Equinox’
Biennial exhibition. At the artist’s studio, gallery and sculpture garden.
The National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson Hole – Wyoming USA.
Wild 100. Group mixed media exhibition
Group fundraising exhibition, Oxo Tower, London
Charity Day at the artist’s studio. In aid of The Fortune Centre and Naomi House.
Hampshire Open Studios, At the artist’s home.
The International Museum of Wildlife Art. One-man exhibition.
The Great British Sculpture Show, Hatfield House, Hertfordshire.
Group sculpture exhibition
2013
Sladmore Contemporary, London.
Group mixed media exhibition. Talisman, Gillingham, Dorset with Port Regis School and The Tusk Trust. One man exhibition.
Nature in Art, The Inernational Centre of Wildlife Art, Wallsworth Hall, Gloucestershire
The Wildlife Art Masters Hampshire Open Studio’s.
2012
The Maastricht Art Fair
The Masterpiece Art Fair, London
St. Barbe Museum & Art Gallery, Lymington, Hampshire. One-man show
The Russell Cotes Art Gallery & Museum, Bournemouth, Dorset.
2011
The Summerleaze Gallery, Wiltshire.
Joint exhibition with the painter, Tim Scott-Bolton
The Masterpiece Art Fair, London Hampshire Artists Open Studios Sladmore Contemporary, London. One-man retrospective exhibition.
2010
Gallery Pangolin Chalford ,Gloucestershire, Stirred for a Bird Group exhibition
Home Gallery Studio Exhibition Henley Festival (Courcoux and Courcoux)
Denise Yapp Contemporary Art - one man showThe Ryder Cup, Celtic Manor Resort, Wales
The Hawk Conservancy Trust, Andover, Hampshire, One-man fund raising exhibition
2009
The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust, Hampshire; one-man exhibition
Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire; Sladmore Contemporary - group sculpture exhibition
Sladmore Contemporary, London; one-man show
The Tryon Gallery, London; Golden Jubilee group exhibition
2008
Palm Beach Art Fair, Florida USA Courcoux & Courcoux, Stockbridge, Hampshire; one-man show
Simon Wingett Fine Art, Wrexham
Grosvenor House Art and Antiques Fair, London
Denise Yapp Contemporary Art Monmouth
Courcoux and Courcoux , Henley Festival
The Game Fair, Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire - The Bronze Gallery
The Albany Gallery, Cardiff Hampshire Artists Open Studios
The Graham Gallery, New York; oneman show
2007
Fresh Air 2007. The Quenington Sculpture Trust, Cirencester, Gloucestershire. Group outdoor exhibition.
Beacon Wood - Inaugural Open studio exhibition, Hampshire. Sladmore Contemporary. One-man show.
2006
Animals & Birds Jubilee Park, Canary Wharf, London.
Group exhibition bronze sculpture exhibition with Jon Buck and Terence Coventry.
The Sculpture in the Bird. Gallery Pangolin, Chalford, Gloucestershire –One man show.
Grosvenor House Art and Antiques Fair, London.
Art London, Chelsea.
The Graham Gallery, New York. One man show
2005
Out of the Melting pot. Group outdoor bronze sculpture exhibition. Parc Heintz, Luxembourg.
Stroud Arts Festival, Stroud Museum, Gloucestershire.
The Hawk Conservancy Trust, Andover, Hampshire. Group mixed media exhibition.
Grosvenor House Art Fair, London. Sladmore Gallery, London. Oneman show.
2004
IV Centuries of Birds in paintings, sculpture and prints. Clark Galleries, Stowe,Vermont USA.
Travelled to Palm Beach,Florida and New York.
The London Art Fair, Business Design Centre, Islington.
The Wendt Gallery, California, USA. Art London, Chelsea.
Maltby Contemporary Art, Winchester. Joint exhibition with Jeremy Gardiner.
Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire. Sculpture under English Skies.
The Albany Gallery, Cardiff. Joint exhibition with Sir Kyffin Williams RA.
New Forest Contemporary Art, Hampshire.
2003
Galerie Ia Cymaise, Paris. One-man show.
Grosvenor House Art and Antiques Fair, London Eastnor Castle, Herefordshire. Sculpture in the Wild. Group outdoor monumental sculpture exhibition.
Royal West of England Academy. Tooth and Claw. Group mixed-media exhibition.
Sladmore Gallery, London. Oneman show.
2002
The Alla Bulyanskaya Gallery, The Hall of Artists, Moscow. One-man show. Art 2002. The London Art Fair.
St Barbe Museum and Art Gallery, Lymington, Hampshire. One-man retrospective exhibition.
Gallery Pangolin, Chalford, Gloucestershire. Breaking the Mould. One-man show.
The Royal Academy of Arts, London. Summer Exhibition.
Grosvenor House Art and Antiques Fair, London.
The Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wisconsin, USA. Animal Instincts. Group monumental sculpture exhibition. Courcoux & Courcoux, Stockbridge, Hampshire. One-man show.
Gallery Pangolin, Chalford, Glos. Sterling Stuff. Group silver sculpture exhibition.
Travelled to Siguro Olafsson Museum, Reykjavic, Iceland and The Royal
Academy of Arts, London. The Graham Gallery, New York. One-man show.
2001
Art London, Contemporary Art Fair. Sladmore Gallery
The Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, Slimbridge, Gloucestershire. Africa. Group sculpture exhibition.
Art 2001, Islington, London.
Royal Academy of Arts, London. Summer Exhibition.
Galerie la Cymaise, Paris. Le chasse en bronze. Group sculpture exhibition.
Arnott Art Museum, Elmira, New York State, USA. Re-presenting Representation. Group mixed-media exhibition.
Sladmore Gallery, London. Exotics. One-man show.
2000
The Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, Slimbridge, Gloucestershire. One man selected retrospective exhibition.
Milton Keynes NHS Trust - Sculpture 2000. Group outdoor sculpture exhibition.
The National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson Hole ,Wyoming, USA. Wildlife Art for a New Century. Group exhibition. Courcoux & Courcoux, Stockbridge. One-man show.
Art London. Contemporary Art Fair. Sladmore Gallery Nature in Art, The International Centre for Wildlife Art, Wallsworth Hall, Gloucestershire. Group
sculpture exhibition.
The Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wisconsin, USA. Birds in Art. Group mixed - media exhibition
The Graham Gallery, New York. One-man show.
1999
The Shape of the Century – 100 years of Sculpture in Britain, Salisbury, Wiltshire Major public exhibition of modern British sculptureTravelled to Canary Wharf, London. Bath Arts Festival.
Grosvenor House Art and Antiques Fair.
Sladmore Gallery, London. Raptors. One-man show.
The International 20th Century Arts Fair, New York.
The Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa.
1998
The Royal Academy of Arts, London. Summer exhibition.
Zoo Sculpt, London Zoo. Group exhibition of contemporary animal sculpture.
Art 98, London. The Portland Gallery.
Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, USA, Inaugural exhibition.
Gallery Pangolin, Chalford, Gloucestershire. The Alchemy of Sculpture. Group contemporary bronze sculpture exhibition.
The Graham Gallery, New York. One-man show.
1997
Chateau du Crest, Geneva, Switzerland. Deux Animaliers Anglais. Gana Gallery, Seoul, Korea. Martyn Cook Gallery, Sydney Australia. One-man show. Leigh Yawkey Woodson Museum, USA. Birds in Art group exhibition (toured USA).
Olympia, London. The Sladmore Gallery. Mixed Sculpture exhibition. Beatrice Royal Gallery, Southampton, group contemporary exhibition. The Natural World.
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Summer Exhibition.
Sladmore Gallery, London. Oneman show.
1996
Art 96, London.
Graham Gallery, New York, Anima Mundi. Group exhibition.
The Martyn Cook Gallery, Sydney, Australia. Group exhibition Jersey Zoo, Channel Islands, Group exhibition of animal sculpture.
The Helan Arts Foundation, Belgium. Group exhibition of contemporary British sculpture.
The Royal Academy of Arts, London. Summer exhibition.
The Chichester Festival, Sussex. Sculpture in Paradise.
The Graham Gallery, New York. One-man show.
Gallery Pangolin, Gloucestershire. Group sculpture exhibition.
1995
Cleveland Art Gallery, Middlesborough – Bronze:The Sculptor’s Material, group exhibition
of contemporary bronzes. United Nations VE Day Commemoration, Hyde Park, London.
The Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, group fundraising exhibition at Painswick House, Gloucestershire.
The Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa.
The Sladmore Gallery, London. One-man show.
1994
The British Sporting Art Trust, London. Group Exhibition
The Royal Academy of Arts, London, Summer Exhibition
The 20th Century British Art Fair, London.
Galerie La Cymaise, Paris. One-man show.
The Graham Gallery, New York. One- man show.
Art Asia, Hong Kong.
1993
The Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa. New Aquistions. Group exhibition, Pangolin Gallery, Gloucestershire. The Bronze Bird, group sculpture exhibition. Travelled to The Wildlife Art Gallery, Suffolk. The Sladmore Gallery, London. One-man show.
1992
The Festival International de I’ Art Animalier, France. First place award for sculpture.
Galerie La Cymaise, Paris. One-man show.
Red Fox Fine Art, Middleburg,Viginia, USA. One - man show.
1991
The Sladmore Gallery, London From Myth to Moor, One-man show. Courcoux & Courcoux, Salisbury. One-man show.
Nature in Art, The International Centre for Wildlife Art, Wallsworth Hall, Sandhurst, Gloucester. Oneman show.
1990
The Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wisconsin, USA Wildlife:The Artist’s View Exhibition (Toured USA).
The Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, Slimbridge, Gloucestershire. Glasgow Print Studio. Menagerie. Group exhibition. Art 90, London.
The Henry - Brett Galleries, Stow, Gloucestershire. Mixed Exhibition. The International Country Show, Paris. The Sladmore Gallery. Bath Contemporary Arts Festival.
1989
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds – Centenary Exhibition, Sotheby’s, Sussex. Christies Contemporary Art, Dover Street, London.
The Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wisconsin, USA Birds in Art Exhibition (Toured USA).
The Henry - Brett Galleries, Stow, Gloucestershire. Group sculpture Exhibition, The International Contemporary Arts Fair, Olympia. London. Bath Contemporary Art Festival.
The Sladmore Gallery, London. One-man show.
1988
The Wykeham Galleries, Stockbridge, Hampshire.
The Game Conservancy Trust Exhibition (Group Exhibition). Travelled to the Tryon Gallery, London.
Nature in Art, The International Centre for Wildlife Art, Wallsworth Hall, Gloucestershire.
Royal Official Opening. Continuing permanent exhibits.
Winchester City Art Gallery, Group Wildlife Charity Exhibition. The New Forest Museum, Hampshire. Public exhibition with four contemporary painters.
Bath Contemporary Arts Festival.
1987
The Mall Galleries, London.
The Society of Wildlife Artists. Winner of Best Sculpture Award for the second year running.
The Sladmore Gallery, London – Birds in Bronze. One-man show.
Monumental Frog
With thanks to the Sladmore team
Bronzes cast at Castle Fine Art Foundry
PHOTOGRAPHY:
Ken Adlard, New Moon Photography
Leo Dashwood
Theo Riviere
DESIGN: Chris Hall, The Burlington Magazine
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