Keith Godwin
| Keith Godwin | |
|---|---|
| Born |
April 17, 1916 Warsop, Nottinghamshire |
| Died | 1991 (aged 75) Sudbury, Suffolk |
| Nationality | English |
| Education | Nottingham and Leicester College of Art |
| Alma mater | Royal College of Art |
| Notable work | Pastorale, Vigilance |
| Style | modern |
| Elected | RSBA, RCA, MAFA |
Keith Godwin (17 April 1916 – 1991) was an English sculptor.
Keith Godwin was born in Warsop, Nottinghamshire in 1916, the son of a Nottinghamshire coal-miner. He attended Mansfield School of Art and, between 1935 and 1939 Nottingham and Leicester colleges of Art. In 1939 he attended the Royal College of Art until 1940, returning after the war in 1946 when Frank Dobson was Professor of Sculpture and graduating in 1947.
Godwin taught at Bromley School of Art and at Goldsmiths during the early 1950s alongside Harold Wilson Parker and Bobby Jones. At that time he lived in Blackheath. He then worked at Hammersmith School of Art from 1957 until 1967 where Laurence Broderick was amongst his students. He moved on to Manchester Regional College of Art where he worked until 1982. He was a member of the Manchester Academy of Fine Arts and served as its president between 1978 and 1983.
Godwin worked in a variety of materials including stone, bronze, terracotta and fibreglass. His modernist style is considered to follow Maillol more than the expressionist style of Lehmbruck.
He first came to public prominence in 1951. He exhibited several works at the South Bank as part of the Festival of Britain including a relief of Neptune in Basil Spence's Sea and Ships exhibit and his life-size figures of Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin and Thomas Henry Huxley in The Living World section. The same year he exhibited the teracotta Sitting woman and bath stone Mother and child at the Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The One-Hundred-and-Twenty-Fifth.
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