After working as an engineer in the Royal Navy during the Second World War, Hubert Dalwood (1924-1976) studied at Bath Academy of Art. After a trip to Sicily and Milan on an Italian Government Scholarship, he was awarded the Gregory Fellowship at Leeds University.

Before 1956 Dalwood's sculptures were mainly of figures often warped and disfigured to suit his intentions but later shifted from figurative subjects, turning to abstract forms, eventually removing all allusions to the human form that remained. These later works remain surprising in scale, surface and composition. He worked in clay, modelling by hand which left finger prints and marks on the service when the works were cast.

Sensitive and distinctive, his work was chosen for display at the 1962 Venice Biennale and he was soon in league with the leading post-war British sculptors of his time. His 1959 work, Large Object, won the John Moore's prize in 1959.  

Dalwood’s most recent solo exhibition was Hubert Dalwood: Landscape into Sculpture at the New Art Centre in 2009, which then travelled to Leeds City Art Gallery and the Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre. His work is in numerous UK public collections such as Leeds Museums and Galleries, the Government Art Collection, The Hepworth Wakefield, Bristol City Art Gallery and Museum, and the Arts Council Collection. Notable public commissions include Untitled Relief (1959-62), aluminium, at the University of Leeds, which is now listed at Grade II as his first large mural relief.

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