George Fullard Drawings

George Fullard was born in Darnall, Sheffield in 1923. As a teenager he enrolled at the Sheffield School of Art where he studied until he was eighteen. He then enlisted in the army and was seriously wounded in the fighting in Italy. He never fully recovered his health and died in 1973, just as he was gaining a substantial reputation as an artist.

Before leaving the College he completed a portfolio of drawings which were inspired by the scenes around him in the aftermath of the Sheffield blitz of December 1940. In form the work consists of a series of 17 completed drawings and a large sketchbook. This made up part of his application for a place for further study at the Royal College of Art in London, which he took up after the war. The drawings were returned to the College, which is now part of Sheffield Hallam University, and added to the collection of the Library, and are now housed in the Special Collection based in the Adsetts building.

The value of the drawings as a precursor of Fullard's later work is clear and the origins of the subject matter of much of his sculpture can be traced back to these youthful sketches.