Geoffrey Austin Milsom ARCA
Other names: Geoffrey Austen Milsom (surname also spelt incorrectly as Milson)
Born 10 September 1917
Died 27 January 1976
Active: 1938 - 1976
Country of birth: England
Country of death: Wales
Sculptor, art teacher
Born in Castleford, Yorkshire which was also the birthplace of Henry Moore. Milsom later described the spoilheaps (or 'slagheaps') created by the coal mining industry as huge sculptural blots on the landscape. He felt his sense of form had been shaped by growing up in this environment and that it had also left a mark on Henry Moore.
Milsom studied at the Royal College of Art in the late 1930s and the carvings of Eric Gill formed an important inspiration at this time. He went on to teach at Stoke School of Art and then at Cardiff College of Art from about 1950 (he remained in this post until his death in 1976). In the 1950s or 60s Milsom showed work at the Whitechapel Art Gallery. Surviving sculptures from this period include stone carvings which reveal the influence of Henri Gaudier Brzeska and Henry Moore. There is an entry on Milsom in 'Young Artists of Promise' edited by Jack Beddington, Studio publications, London and New York, 1957.
This entry includes information supplied by the artist's son John Milsom.
Works
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Head
1947 (Presumed)
Mother and Child
1948 (Presumed)
Torso
1948 (Presumed)
Male Torso
1949 (Presumed)
Carving
1949 (Presumed)
Female Figure
1949 (Presumed)
Figure
1950 (Presumed)
Relief-Figure
1950 (Presumed)
Imaginative Head
1950 (Presumed)
Imaginative Head
1950 (Presumed)
Imaginative Head
1950 (Presumed)
Carving
1950 (Presumed)
Carving
1951 (Presumed)
Morning
1951 (Presumed)
Terra Cotta
13 October 1951 - 14 November 1951
Coloured Terra Cotta
13 October 1951 - 14 November 1951
Terra Cotta Figure
1951 (Presumed)
Locations
Address 37 Redcliffe Road London SW England | View on map
1939 (Circa)
Address 8 Heol y bont Rhiwbina Cardiff Wales | View on map
1968 (Circa) - 1976
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at The Birmingham Art Circle. The Seventy-Fifth Exhibition, 1947
Multiple works
Exhibited at Society of Staffordshire Artists. Fourteenth Annual Exhibition (City of Stoke on Trent Museums and Art Gallery, Hanley), 1948
Multiple works
Exhibited at Society of Staffordshire Artists. Fifteenth Annual Exhibition (City of Stoke on Trent Museums and Art Gallery, Hanley), 1949
Multiple works
Exhibited at Society of Staffordshire Artists Sixteenth Annual Exhibition (City of Stoke on Trent Museums and Art Gallery, Hanley), 1950
Multiple works
Exhibited at Society of Staffordshire Artists Seventeenth Annual Exhibition (City of Stoke on Trent Museums and Art Gallery, Hanley), 1951
Multiple works
Exhibited at Autumn Exhibition of the Society of Staffordshire Artists (Belston Art Gallery, Stoke on Trent), 1951
Multiple works
Exhibited at Royal College of Art Exhibition, 1938
15 July 1938 - 30 July 1938
Participated in the 1938 student exhibition.
Institutional and Business Connections
Teacher of sculpture at Stoke School of Art
This was his first post, Milsom taught in Stoke from sometime in the mid or late 1940s until about 1950
Teacher of sculpture at Cardiff College of Art
1950 (Circa) - 1976
Sources
Autumn Exhibition of the Society of Staffordshire, 1951
October 1951
p. 7.
England & Wales, Death Index: 1916-2007
2007
Name: Geoffrey Austin Milsom
Birth Date: 10 Sep 1917
Date of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar 1976
Age at Death: 58
Registration district: South Glamorgan
Inferred County: South Glamorgan
Volume: 28
Page: 2316
England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1916-2005
2008
Name: Geoffrey A Milson [incorrectly indexed, actually Milsom]
Mother's Maiden Surname: Senior
Date of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec 1917
Registration district: Pontefract
Inferred County: Yorkshire West Riding
Volume Number: 9c
Page Number: 192
London, England, Electoral Registers, 1835-1965
2010
Name: Geoffrey Austin Milsom
Electoral Year: 1939
County or Borough: Kensington and Chelsea
Parliamentary Division: Kensington South
Royal College of Art Exhibition, 1938
1938
p. 11.
Society of Staffordshire Artists Seventeenth Annual Exhibition, 1951
March 1951
p. 11.
Society of Staffordshire Artists Sixteenth Annual Exhibition, 1950
March 1950
p. 10.
Society of Staffordshire Artists. Fifteenth Annual Exhibition, 1949
March 1949
p. 10.
Society of Staffordshire Artists. Fourteenth Annual Exhibition, 1948
March 1948
p. 10.
Society of Staffordshire Artists. Thirteenth Annual Exhibition, 1947
April 1947
p. 16.
Citing this record
'Geoffrey Austin Milsom ARCA', 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=msib4_1220609514, accessed 28 Sep 2023]
