George Fullard
Born 1923
Died 1973
Active: 1937 - 1973
Country of birth and death: England
Sculptor
Born Sheffield. Modelled figures and heads in 1950s in clay and plaster for concrete and bronze; from 1958, worked in assemblage with discarded wood and junk. Studied at Sheffield College of Arts and Crafts 1937-42; Royal College of Art 1945-47. War service in 17th/21st Lancers, North Africa and Italy 1942-44. Invalided out of of service. Awarded travel scholarship to Paris 1947. Taught at St. Martin’s, Camberwell, Hammersmith and St. Alban’s Schools of Art in 1950s and early 60s; Head of Sculpture at Chelsea School of Art 1963-73. A.R.A. 1973.
Exhibitions include : Looking Forward, South London Gallery 1956; Looking at People, South London Gallery and Moscow 1957; John Moores Exhibition, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool 1957-58 (junior prizewinner) ; Woodstock Gallery, London 1958 (solo); AC 1958, 60, AC 61.
Collections include: Tate Gallery; Arts Council; Leeds City Art Galleries; Sheffield Galleries and Museums; Southampton City Art Gallery.
Further reading: F. Brill, (intro.), George Fullard 1923-1973, Serpentine Gallery, London, 1974, (exh. cat.).
G. Whiteley, (intro.), George Fullard – A Fastidious Primitive, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, 1997, (exh. cat.).
G. Whiteley, (intro.), Playing with Paradox, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield and Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, 1998, (exh. cat.).
G. Whiteley, Assembling the Absurd : The Sculpture of George Fullard, (London: The Henry Moore Foundation/Lund Humphries, 1998).
Biography from Whiteley (2001) and (2004)
Wealth at death: £25,428 0s. 0d.
Probate date: 1 April 1974
Institutional and Business Connections
Studied at Royal College of Art (including National Art Training School)
July 1947
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1947 'Distribution of Diplomas' list. In the same year Fullard was awarded a 'Travelling Scholarship' for sculpture.
Personal and Professional Connections
Collaborated with Ernest Gordon Adsetts
They studied together in Sheffield and at the Royal College of Art, afterwards they collaborated on exhibition projects for the Festival of Britain and Ideal Home exhibition in 1951 and 1953.
Sources
Directory of sculptors working and exhibiting in Britain in the 1950s, by Gillian Whiteley
2001
pp. 14-5
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
2004
Gillian Whiteley, ‘Fullard, George (1923–1973)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online edn, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/64396, accessed 25 July 2010]
Royal College of Art, Distribution of Diplomas on Wednesday 16 July 1947
July 1947
p. 1.
Citing this record
'George Fullard', 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_1244805276, accessed 07 May 2021]
