John Hoskin

John Hoskin (1921cite web|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ArtistWorks?cgroupid=999999961&artistid=1311&page=1&sole=y&collab=y&attr=y&sort=default&tabview=bio|title=Tate Collection - John Hoskin biography|accessdate=2008-08-06] --1990) was a British sculptor, born in Cheltenham. He began drawing when he returned from Germany after the Second World War. Terry Frost, one of the few surviving painters from the St. Ives school, encouraged him to become a sculptor.Fact|date=January 2008

He began sculpting in the early 1950s, working in metal. His works combine shiny curved surfaces with contrasting black welded comb of rods that held them, a conflict of geometric and organic forms. He also made abstract figures.Fact|date=August 2008 He soon became one of the most noted younger British sculptors,Fact|date=January 2008 with successful one-man shows In the 1960s at the Grosvenor and Matthiesen Galleries.

His work can be found in the Tate [cite web|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ArtistWorks?cgroupid=999999961&artistid=1311&page=1|title=Tate Collection - John Hoskin|accessdate=2008-08-06] , the Victoria and Albert Museum, the British Council collection and various galleries around the world — in America, Yugoslavia, New Zealand and Australia. He refused to allow one style to dominate his sculpture, even though often this alienated him from those who had supported his early work. He has taught at the Bath Academy in Corsham, head of painting at Winchester, visiting lecturer at Newcastle, and Professor of Fine Art at the Leicester Polytechnic. [cite web|url=http://www.baacorsham.co.uk/mparkin/p50.htm|title=John Hoskin biography - Bath Academy of Art|accessdate=2008-08-06]

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* [http://www.baacorsham.co.uk/mparkin/p50.htm Biography page at the Bath Academy of Art]