4 Times 3 (c.2005)
Norman Dilworth is a British Post War and Contemporary artist, with an affinity for mathematics as shown in his geometric sculptures.
He studied at Wigan School of Art and the Slade (1952-1956) where he developed skills in painting and sculpture; in his graduating year, he moved to Paris on a French Government Scholarship to continue his studies and met fellow artist Giacometti. During this period, Dilworth’s black and white geometric works that challenged perception were associated with Kinetic Art and in turn, he went onto to show these paintings and drawings alongside Bridget Riley and Michael Kidner at the Herbert Art Gallery in 1966.
In 1971, Dilworth moved to Amsterdam after a successful show in the Hague. He had moved on from Kinetic work to Constructivist art by producing large freestanding sculptures made of steel rods, painted wood or bronze.
Dilworth spent a lot of his time showing in Germany and the Netherlands; the Stedelijik Museum in Amsterdam staged a farewell exhibition for him prior to his move to Lille. He had several solo shows during his time in France at the Musée des Beaux Arts, Calais (2005) and a retrospective at Musée Matisse, Le Cateau Cambrésis. In 2017, The Redfern Gallery held a show of his work in London and in 2019, Norman Dilworth became the first British artist since 2008 to win the Peter C Ruppert Prize for Concrete Art in Europe.