Deirdre Hubbard
Split Sphere
Bronze, oak plinth, not for sale
Deirdre Hubbard was born in 1935 and died in 2009. This piece is now permanently at Newby and we are grateful that she had lent us many fine sculptures.
Deirdre Hubbard's sculpture explores the rhythms of natural forms, sometimes retaining the original image but more often moving to some level of abstraction. Always vital is the rhythmic interplay of concave and convex shapes and the resulting curves and counter-curves.
Deirdre Hubbard FRBS was born in New York City in 1935, a child of two practicing artists. She graduated from Harvard University, B.A. summa cum laude, in 1957. While at Harvard, she worked with the painter Theodore Feininger.
In 1957 she moved to London, to study at the Chelsea Art School with Willi Soukop and Bernard Meadows. She worked in the Studio of Elisabeth Frink during the 1960's, beginning first to exhibit with the Free Painters and Sculptors, and later at the Royal Academy of Art.
She continued to work and exhibit in London and other venues throughout Britain, and was accepted into to the Royal Society of British Sculptors in 1981, as the first non-British member to be admitted.
In 1998 she was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors, and eventually served as a Council Member and Trustee of the Society.
