Keith Godwin
Born 1916
Active: 1951 - 1955
Sculptor
He taught sculpture at Goldsmiths between about 1950-55 together with Harold Wilson Parker and Bobby Jones. Towards the end of his career, Godwin was Head of Sculpture at Manchester Polytechnic (previously Manchester College of Art). His son Christopher reports that his father pioneered the use of resins in sculpture, often using coloured Perspex embedded within the matrix.
In 1956 a statue by Godwin called 'Pastorale' was unveiled by Hugh Casson at Perkley Estate, Ham Common. There was some controversy surrounding the work and a short news film was made about it by Pathé. Godwin's works in bronze include a portrait head of Sir Alan Ayckbourn.
This entry includes information supplied by Keith Godwin and also by Andrew Potter, Royal Academy of Arts Library and by Margaret Langworth, a student at Goldsmiths. 'The Statue And The Fuss', 1956 is available online at http://www.britishpathe.com/video/the-statue-and-the-fuss (accessed 28 May 2013).
Works
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Sitting woman
1951
Mother and child
1951
Life size figures of Alfred Russell Wallace, Charles Darwin and Thomas Henry Huxley
1951 (Presumed)
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Festival of Britain, London: South Bank Exhibition, 1951
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The One-Hundred-and-Twenty-Fifth, 1951
'Mother and child'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1955 - 1957
Exhibited 3 times, three works in all (statues and statuettes in cement).
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.
Sources
Festival of Britain: 1951. Catalogue of Exhibits. South Bank Exhibition, 1951
1951
p. 111.
Royal College of Art, Distribution of Diplomas on Wednesday 16 July 1947
July 1947
p. 1.
Citing this record
'Keith Godwin', 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=msib6_1210601574, accessed 04 Oct 2023]
