Gordon Herickx

Gordon Herickx (1900–1953) was an English sculptor. Biography

Born in Birmingham, one of seven children of gem setter Emile Herickx and his wife Martha, Herickx won a scholarship in 1914 to study under William Bloye at the Birmingham School of Art, completing his studies after World War I. He assisted Bloye on projects such as the 1933 carvings of the church of St. Francis of Assisi, Bournville, and executed his own commissions, such as the carvings around the entrance to the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, from his studio in Moseley. Herickx taught at the Walsall College of Art from 1945 until his death.

Herickx worked mainly in cast bronze or carved Hoptonwood or Hornton stone,

Herickx's first solo exhibition was held in London in July 1953, but he died in Birmingham the night after the show's opening. A memorial exhibition was held in October–November that year in Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery.

Herickx's friends in Birmingham included the Birmingham Group of writers and poets and the Birmingham surrealist painters Conroy Maddox and John Melville. The poet Louis MacNeice included Herickx as the character "Wimbush" in his autobiographical poem Autumn Sequel.