James Wedgwood
Died 1973
Active: 1925 - 1957
Country of birth and death: England
Sculptor
Locations
Address 20 Hurlingham Court Mansions Fulham London SW6 | View on map
1925 (Presumed) - 1933
Address 10 Fulham Park Gardens Fulham London | View on map
1933 (Circa) - 1957 (Circa)
Studio located at 1 Radnor Studios London | View on map
1927 (Circa) - 1932 (Circa)
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Competed at Competition for a Memorial in Rye Churchyard (Royal Society of British Sculptors), 1931
March 1931
Winner of the commission.
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1927 - 1957
Exhibited 18 times (16 times up to 1951), twenty-three works in all (statuettes, portraits, garden statuary and memorials in stone and wood)
Participant in Art Workers Guild Revels, 1929
Participant in Art Workers Guild Revels, 1934
Participant in Social Evening (Art Workers Guild), 1946
Speaker at What I like and dislike in Art (Art Workers Guild), 1940
Took part in Art Workers Guild Revels, 1932
Took part in Art Workers Guild Revels, 1933
Took part in How the Sculptor Works (Art Workers Guild), 1949
Gave demonstration.
Took part in Royal Geographical Society commission for a statue to David Livingstone, 1951
1951
Asked to prepare a model for consideration by the R.G.S.
Won prize Prize for the best work of sculpture exhibited in London
1943
Won the prize for his stone groups entitled 'Pieta' and 'Adoration', that were exhibited at the United Artists' Exhibition, Royal Academy, Winter 1942-1943.
Institutional and Business Connections
Associate member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1944 - 8 February 1945
Became a Fellow in 1945.
Fellow of Royal Society of British Sculptors
8 March 1945
Member of Art Workers Guild
19 June 1925 - 1973
Member of council Royal Society of British Sculptors
1946 - 1948
Received award from Royal Society of British Sculptors
1943
Wedgwood recieved the Silver Medal of the Royal Society of British Sculptors [Sixtieth annual report of the committee of the Art Workers' Guild, p.8].
Personal and Professional Connections
Nominator of Arthur Glover
1948 (Presumed)
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors
Nominator of Richard Alfred Thomas
1949 (Circa)
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors
Sources
Art Workers Guild Annual Reports, 1913-1933
1925, p.10; 1929, p.4; 1932, p.5; 1933, p.6 and all lists of members' addresses 1926-1933.
List of Members: Royal Society of British Sculptors
2008
The fiftieth annual report of the committee of the Art-Workers' Guild, 1934
1934
p.48.
The fifty-first annual report of the committee of the Art-Workers' Guild, 1935
1935
p.6.
The fifty-seventh annual report of the committee of the Art-Workers' Guild, 1941
1941
p.7.
The sixtieth annual report of the committee of the Art-Workers' Guild, 1944
1944
p.8.
The sixty-eighth annual report of the committee of the Art-Workers' Guild, 1951
1951
p.30.
The sixty-sixth annual report of the committee of the Art-Workers' Guild, 1950
1950
p.9.
The sixty-third annual report of the committee of the Art-Workers' Guild, 1947
1947
p.6.
Citing this record
'James Wedgwood', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib2_1208277027, accessed 04 Oct 2023]