Background
Clatworthy was born at Bridgwater, Somerset, on 31 January 1928, to Ernest Clatworthy, a railway clerk, and Gladys, née Jugaler. He went to Doctor Morgan"s Grammar School in Bridgewater.
Clatworthy was born at Bridgwater, Somerset, on 31 January 1928, to Ernest Clatworthy, a railway clerk, and Gladys, née Jugaler. He went to Doctor Morgan"s Grammar School in Bridgewater.
He studied the violin as a boy and was uncertain whether to become an artist or a musician.:92 In 1945-1946 he studied at the West of England College of Art, and then did National Service.
at Hanover Gallery, Waddington Galleries, Holland Park Open Air Sculpture, Battersea Park Open Air Sculpture, Tate Gallery (British Sculpture in the Sixties), Burlington House (British Sculptors 1972), Basil Jacobs Fine Art Limited., Diploma Galleries, Burlington House, Photographers Gallery, Quinton Green Fine Art, Chapman Gallery 1988, 1989, 1990; work in collections of Arts Council, Contemporary Art Society, Tate Gallery, Victoria and Albert Museum, Greater London Council, National Portrait Gallery (portrait of Dame Elisabeth Frink 1985); Monumental Horse and Rider, Finsbury Avenue., London 1984.He was head of the fine art department at the Central School of Art and Design in London from 1971 to 1975, and was elected a fellow of the Royal Academy of Arts in 1973. From 1947 to 1949 he was at the Chelsea School of Art in London, where he was taught by Bernard Meadows, and then in 1950-1951 at the Slade School of Fine Artist He worked briefly as an assistant to Henry Moore.
lieutenant was Moore who persuaded him to attend the Slade rather than the Royal College of Artist
In the early 1950s Clatworthy was, with Anthony Caro, Elizabeth Frink and Eduardo Paolozzi, among the young sculptors brought in by Frank Martin to teach in the new sculpture department at Saint Martin"s School of Artist He taught at the Royal College of Art from 1960 until 1972 and, between 1967 and 1971, also at the West of England College of Artist
He was a governor of Saint Martin"s from 1970 to 1971, and then, until 1975, head of the fine art department at Central. He was elected a Royal Academician on 26 April 1973.
Fine Art Panel of National Council for Diplomas in Art and Design 1961-1972.
Married Pamela Gordon in 1954 (divorced).