John Hoskin (1920-1990) is an interesting artistic figure, as he was one of those English sculptors who
achieved international fame in the post-war period, thanks to the promoting action of Herbert Read.
Hoskin’s teacher was Lynn Chadwick, so he took his first steps into that unincorporated “movement”
called Geometry of Fear. However, unlike others, he is an artist whose career has been poorly studied,
even in the UK. The sculptor was undoubtedly part of that small circle of British artists promoted
at home and abroad, as evidenced by his participation in the Roman exhibition of 1959, Moments of
Vision, and his presence at the Tate Gallery exhibition in 1964, 1954-1964. Painting and Sculpture of
a Decade. On a stylistic level, it is possible to notice his passage from industrial welding and wrought
iron sculpture to a geometric abstraction, characteristic of his best-known public work, placed in Dar-
lington since 1970. His participation in 1965 public sculpture international exhibition Forma Viva,
in Ravne (Slovenia), put him in contact with the Italian Dino Basaldella, with whom he established a
fruitful friendship.
