London, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, 2002 (illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, no. 796);
Woking, The Lightbox, 2D:3D – Discover the Art of Sculpture: Sculpture & Sculptors’ Drawings from The Ingram Collection, 1 February – 1 March 2008;
London, Sotheby’s, Sculpture and Sculptors’ Drawings from The Ingram Collection, 10 – 21 January 2011;
Woking, The Lightbox, The Ingram Collection: Dreams and Nightmares, 22 May – 15 July 2012;
London, Canary Wharf, Bronze Sculptures from The Ingram Collection, 16 September – 15 November 2013;
Sheffield, Museums Sheffield, Darkness into Light, 20 October 2018 – 13 January 2019;
Sotheby’s, St George St Gallery, London, Brave New Visions, 17 July – 9 August 2019
Literature:
Collette Chattopadhyay, Tasende Gallery, 2002 (no. 5, pl. 3);
D. Farr and E. Chadwick, Lynn Chadwick Sculptor, Oxford, 1990 (another cast illustrated, no. C69, p. 374);
D. Farr and E. Chadwick, Lynn Chadwick Sculptor, Lund Humphries, 2006 (no. 208, p. 124)
Lynn Chadwick’s beasts are animal forms abstracted to the extreme. Beast X is insect-like, its legs, braced to leap or jump, its body shell-like and brittle. The poet, literary and art critic, Herbert Read, said of Chadwick’s sculptures that they referenced ‘symbolic icons’ drawn from within the human soul. These curious looking creatures were seen by Read as an indirect response to the uncertainty of the time and the ever growing fear of nuclear war.
