1915-2005
1915
Born in Norwich.
1934-36
Took a painting course at the Norwich School of Art.
1937
Moved to London and attended lectures at the London Institute of Education and the Courtauld Institute of Art.
1938
Enrolled in painting and sculpture courses at the Royal College of Art.
1936-39 and 1946-48.
Spent summers working as a studio assistant to Henry Moore.
1941-46
Served in the Royal Air Force in Dover, India, Ceylon and the Cocos Islands in the Indian Ocean,
1946-48
Resumed his studies at the RCA.
1956
Won an Italian State Scholarship.
1948 -60
Taught at the Chelsea School of Art.
1960
Prize-winner at the Sixth International Exhibition of Drawings and Engravings in Lugano, Switzerland.
1960 -80
Professor of Sculpture at the Royal College of Art.
1980
Appointed Professor Emeritus.
1983-88
Acting Director of The Henry Moore Foundation.
1989
Served as consultant to The Henry Moore Foundation.
Select Exhibitions
1952
British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale with Robert Adams, Kenneth Armitage, Reg Butler, Lynn Chadwick, Eduardo Paolozzi and William Turnbull.
1936
International Surrealist Exhibition, New Burlington Galleries, London.
1958
Expo '58 , Brussels.
1959
Carnegie International Exhibition, Pittsburgh.
1961
Carnegie International Exhibition, Pittsburgh,
1964
'1954-64: Painting and Sculpture of a Decade', Tate Gallery, London.
1965
'British Sculpture in the Sixties', Tate Gallery, London.
1957-67
Solo shows at Gimpel Fils, London.
1981
'British Sculpture in the Twentieth Century', Whitechapel Art Gallery, London.
2002
'Henry Moore and the Geometry of Fear', James Hyman Fine Art, London.
Bibliography
W.J. Strachan, 'The Sculptor and his Drawings 2. Bernard Meadows', Connoisseur, vol.185, no.746, April 1974, pp.288-93
Alan Bowness, Bernard Meadows: Sculpture and Drawings, Much Hadham and London 1995