Clement Meadmore b. 9 February 1929

  • Designer (Industrial / Product Designer),
  • Artist (Sculptor)
Well known as a sculptor, Meadmore began his career as a designer. His furniture was sold at Marion Hall Best’s showrooms and his lighting design shown at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics Arts Festival alongside the work of designers such as Grant Featherston. Meadmore ran Max Hutchinson's Gallery A, Melbourne, in the late 1950s. In 1963 he moved to New York, where he concentrated primarily on his work as a sculptor.
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Citations

  • Powerhouse Museum, ’91/1326 Chair, 'Michael Hirst’ Chair, plastic-coated steel, designed by Clement Meadmore (1959), made by Michael Hirst Pty Ltd, Melbourne, 1959-1965’, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, NSW.

    http://from.ph/112390

  • (1984), 'Some Other Dream. The Artist, the Art World and the Expatriate.’, Hale & Iremonger.

  • (1952), 'Architecture and Art’.

  • (July 1953), 'Architecture and Arts’.

  • (April 1954), 'Architecture and Arts’.

  • (June 1954), 'Architecture and Arts’.

  • (June 1955), 'Architecture and Arts’.

  • (September 1955), 'Architecture and Arts’.

  • (1956), 'The Arts Festival of the Olympic Games’, Olympic Organising Committee , Melbourne, VIC.

  • (1997), 'information supplied by Michael Hirst’.

  • Chamberlain, Sheila (September 1994), '“The History of the Legend of Sindad Mural.”’, The Melburnian, Melbourne, VIC.

  • Grishin, Sasha (1995), 'Leonard French’, Craftsman House.

  • De Groen, Geoffrey (1984), '“Max Hutchinson.” Some Other Dream.’, Hale & Iremonger.

  • (25 August 1959), 'Boyd Turner & Clement Meadmore.’', Gallery A, Melbourne, VIC.

  • (1 January 1961), 'Advertisement appearing in “The Bauhaus. Aspects and Influence.”’, Gallery A, Melbourne, VIC.

  • Meadmore, Clement (1974), 'The Modern Chair’, Van Nostrand Reinhold.

  • (January 1954), 'Architecture and Arts’.

  • (September 1955), 'Architecture and Arts’.

  • Powerhouse Museum, ’91/1326 Chair, 'Michael Hirst’ Chair, plastic-coated steel, designed by Clement Meadmore (1959), made by Michael Hirst Pty Ltd, Melbourne, 1959-1965’, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, NSW.

    http://from.ph/112390

See also

  • (1974), 'One Hundred Modern Chairs', National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC.
  • (1996), 'Melbourne, Modernity and the XVI Olympiad', Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne, Vic.

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