Sculptor of abstract and monumental works, designer and lithographer. Born in Northampton, Adams began to study sculpture at the Northampton School of Art in 1933. Working during the day at various jobs, including engineering, he continued to study sculpture and painting part-time from 1938 to 1944, holding his first one-man exhibition at Gimpel Fils in 1947. In 1949 he began to work with metal, and with further exhibitions at Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris in 1949 & Passedoit Gallery, New York in 1950 he was commissioned to produce a sculpture for the Festival of Britain in 1951. From 1951 to 1956 Adams worked and exhibited with Victor Pasmore, Antony Hill and Kenneth Martin, all artists who had constructivist ideas and aimed to forge a link between art and architecture. Adams taught at the Central School of Art in London from 1949 to 1960 and represented Britain at the Venice Biennale in 1962.