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Inge King

SELECTED WORKS

 Inge King
1918Born Berlin, Germany

Solo Exhibitions

2010'Recent sculpture and maquettes', Australian Galleries, Sydney
2009'Sculpture: maquettes and recent work' , Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2008'Recent Sculpture', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2006'Recent Work', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2003Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2002Australian Galleries, Sydney
2000Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1999Australian Galleries, Sydney
Sculpture on Site, Sydney Festival The Botanical Gardens, Sydney
1996Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1995Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria (Survey of works 1943 to 1994)
1994Australian Galleries, Sydney
1993Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1992National Gallery of Victoria (Retrospective)
1991Australian Galleries, Sydney
1990Deakin University Gallery
1989BMG Fine Art Gallery, Adelaide
Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1988Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1987Bonython - Meadmore Gallery, Sydney
1985Realities Gallery, Melbourne
Bonython - Meadmore Gallery, Sydney
1982University Gallery, University of Melbourne
1980Realities Gallery, Melbourne
1978Victor Mace Gallery, Brisbane
Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1977Realities Gallery, Melbourne
1973Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
1969Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
1949London Gallery, Brook Street, London

Group Exhibitions

2010'Artists' prints made with integrity', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2009'A Sculpture by...', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
'Big names Little Sculptures', Annette Larkin Fine Art, Sydney
2007'Stock Show', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
'Small Pleasures: Painting and Sculpture', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2006'Fine Australian Prints and Drawings', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
'New Year Group Exhibition', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
'Stock Show', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
'50th Anniversary Exhibition', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
'Impressions', Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne
2004‘Sculpture’, Australian Galleries, Sydney
2003‘This was the future’ Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
2001Sculpture by the Sea, Sydney
‘Six women artists’ Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
2000Artfair 2000, Australian Galleries, Sydney
‘Fine Paintings, Sculpture and Tapestry’, Australian Galleries, Sydney
1999‘Fine Paintings and Sculpture’, Australian Galleries, Sydney
1998‘Fine Paintings and Sculpture’, Australian Galleries, Sydney
1997‘Fine Paintings, Sculpture and Tapestry’, Australian Galleries, Sydney
1993Joan and Peter Clemenger Triennial Exhibition of Contemporary Australian Art
1991Diverse Visions, Queensland Art Gallery
1990Fourth Australian Sculpture Triennial, National Gallery of Victoria
1988The World Expo 88 Collection, Brisbane
1987Third Australian Sculpture Triennial, Heide Park and Art Gallery, Victoria
1984Centre Five, Heide
Second Triennial, National Gallery of Victoria
Second Triennial, National Gallery of Victoria
1983Abstract Art in Australia, Royal Melbourne Institute
1982Mildura Arts Centre’s Eighth Triennial Exhibition
Second Triennial, National Gallery of Victoria
1981First Triennial Exhibition, La Trobe University
1980Ian Potter Foundation Sculpture Commission
1979Dobell Foundation Market Place, Sydney, Competition
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Staff Exhibition
Caulfield City Arts Centre Invitation Purchase Prize
1976Caulfield City Arts Centre Invitation Purchase Prize
1975Mildura Arts Centre’s Sixth Sculpture (Triennial) Exhibition, Australia ’75
Sculptors’ Sculptors, National Gallery of Victoria - Arts Victoria ’75
Commonwealth Gardens Exhibition, Canberra, Australia ’75
1974Centre Five Exhibition at Geelong and McClelland Galleries
Realities, Como Exhibition
Ewing Gallery outdoor exhibition
1973Cairnmillar Exhibition, Georges Gallery
1972Sixteenth Tasmanian Art Gallery Exhibition, Hobart
1971Connoisseur’s Competition, Robert Blackwood Hall, Monash University
Marland House Sculpture Competition
1970Mildura Prize for Sculpture, Mildura Arts Centre’s Fourth Triennial Sculpture Exhibition
1967Art and the Church, Anglican Church of St. John the Divine, Croydon
Selected Mildura Sculpture, George’s Gallery, Melbourne
Mildura Prize for Sculpture, Mildura Arts Centre Third Triennial
Victorian Sculptors’ Society Travelling Exhibition
1966Opening exhibition, sculpture / centre, Canberra
1965Centre Five, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney by invitation, with Jomantas, Last, Parr, Zikaras
Vizard Wholohan Competition, Royal South Australia Society of Arts, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Recent Australian Sculpture, National Gallery of Victoria and all State galleries
1964Centre Five, Hungry Horse Gallery, Sydney, with Jomantas, Last, Parr, Zikaras
Mildura Prize for Sculpture, Mildura Arts Centre’s Second Triennial
1963Centre Five, Newcastle City Art Gallery, NSW with Redpath, Jomantas, Kane, Last, Zikaras
Victorian Sculptors’ Society Travelling Exhibition
1962Art and the Church, St. Peter’s, Eastern Hill, Melbourne
Four Arts in Australia, South-East Asia Touring Exhibition
1961Nine Sculptors, Argus Gallery, Melbourne
Mildura Prize for Sculpture, Mildura Arts Centre’s First Triennial Exhibition
1960Victorian Sculptors’ Society Travelling Exhibition
1959Six Sculptors, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, with Redpath, Jomantas,
1958Victorian Sculptors’ Society Travelling Exhibition
1956Victorian Sculptors’ Society, Retrospective Exhibition, Victorian Artists’Society Gallery, Melbourne
Twelve Melbourne Sculptors, Brummels Gallery, Melbourne
1955Group of Four, School of Architecture, University of Melbourne, with Redpath,
1954Victorian Sculptors’ Society Exhibitions
1953Present Day Art of Victoria, Victorian Artists’ Society Gallery
1950Laurel Gallery, New York
1949Clay Club, New York
1948London Group, London
1968_First Comalco Invitation Sculpture Prize, Alcorso - Sekers Travelling Scholarship for Sculpture, 1966-67_Sydney, 1968 Melbourne
1966-67_Form in Action, Recent Australian Sculpture Exhibition, travelling New Zealand
1966-67_Melbourne Sculptors, Bonython Gallery, Sydney, with Last and Parr
Kane, Last, Zikaras
Kane, Last, Guenter Stei

Bibliography

King, Amanda & Cavadini, Fabio; Artscape: A Thousand Different Angles (documentary), Frontyard Films, ABC TV, 30th March 2010

Awards

2008 Australia Council for the Visual Arts emeritus Award
2006The Heide Fellowship
1997City of Melbourne Honoured Artist Award
1993 Doctor of Arts (honoris causa), Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
1990 Doctor of Letters (honoris causa), Deakin University
1989 ICI House (Melbourne) Foyer Sculpture Commission
1987 Royal Blind Society (Sydney) Sculpture Award
1984 AM (Member in the Order of Australia)
 Alice Springs Prize
1980 Visual Arts Board Grant for International Sculpture Conference, Washington
1969 Dyason Education Grant
 British Council Travel Grant
1968 Adelaide Festival Prize
1967 Eltham Art Prize
1965 Eltham Art Prize

Collections

Artbank, Sydney
Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Australian Embassy Collection, Washington D.C., USA
Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
Bendigo Art Gallery
BHP House, William St., Melbourne
BHP Research Laboratory, Clayton, VIC
Carrick Hill Sculpture Park, SA
Chandler Coventry Collection
Comalco Collection, Melbourne
Darwin Art Gallery
Deakin University
ESSO Headquarters, Melbourne
Gold Coast City Art Collection
Ian Potter Foundation for the National Gallery of Victoria
Latrobe University, Melbourne, Victoria
McClelland Gallery, Victoria
Mildura Arts Centre, Victoria
Monash University, Peninsula Campus, Frankston, Victoria
National Capital Development Commission, Canberra
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria
New Parliament House, Canberra
Newcastle City Art Gallery, NSW
Queensland Art Gallery
Queen Victoria Museum and Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart
University of Ballarat, Victoria
University of Melbourne
University of Western Australia, Perth
Victorian Arts Centre
Woden Valley Hospital, ACT

Commissions

2008artsACT, Canberra
 Connect East Group, EastLink trail, City of Monash 
1994Deakin University, Geelong Woolstores Campus (‘Daedalus’)
 Esso Australia, Southbank, Melbourne (‘Sheerwater’)
1992 Law Courts, Brisbane (‘Maquette for monumental sculpture’)
 State Superannuation Board, Melbourne (‘Family Group’)
1991 McClelland Gallery, Langwarrin, VIC (‘Island Sculpture’)
1989 Sculpture for ICI Melbourne (‘Joie de Vivre’) Competition Award
1985 Australian National University (‘Great Gate’)
 McClelland Gallery, Langwarrin, VIC (‘Jabaroo’)
 Newcastle City Art Gallery (‘Enigma’)
1983 Wentworth Hotel, Melbourne (‘Full Moon’ Wall sculpture)
 Art Bank, Sydney (‘Constellation’)
 State Bank, Elizabeth St., Melbourne (‘Totem’)
1982 Melbourne University (‘Sun Ribbon’)
1979-83 Australian Steel Award, BHP
 Hanging Cloud, Deakin University, Geelong Campus
 Australian National University (‘Black Sun II’)
 La Trobe University Moat Theatre sculpture (‘Dialogue of Circles’)
1975 Woden Valley Hospital (‘Number Five’)
1974-75 Department of Early Childhood Studies, University of Melbourne, Kew Campus (‘Upward Surge’)
1973 Victorian Arts Centre plaza (‘Forward Surge’)
1972 BHP House, William St., Melbourne (‘Balance of Steel Forms’)
1971-72 University of Queensland, St Lucia, Sir Fred Schonell Memorial Fountain
1971 NCDC, Anzac Parade, Canberra (‘RAAF Memorial’)
 Civic Centre, Wodonga, VIC (‘Fountain’)
 Mr and Mrs A. Gibson, Balwyn VIC (‘Fountain for garden’)
1968 BHP Laboratories, Clayton, VIC (‘Wall Sculpture’)
1965 Norman Bros., Fitzroy (‘Fountain’)
1964 Georges Hostess Store
1959 Fitzroy Gardens, Melbourne (‘Dewdrop Fountain’)
1957 Victorian Employer’s Federation
1953 The ‘Herald’, for the first Herald Outdoor Exhibition

Selected Reviews

New Year Group Exhibition | The Sunday Age, Preview | 6 Jan 2005

Special Notes

Exhibitions with Grahame King

2004 McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Langwarrin
2002 Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra
1976 Mildura Arts Centre (‘The Kings’ - 15 years retrospective from 1960 to 1975 - comprising 40 selected maquettes, sculptures and photographs), travelling to Sale, Geelong Regional Galleries, and in 1976 to McClelland and Benalla Regional Galleries
1963 Bonython Gallery, Adelaide
1962 Argus Gallery
1960 Gallery A, Melbourne
1954 Johnston Gallery, Brisbane
1952 Peter Bray Gallery
1951 Stanley Coe Gallery, Melbourne