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| 1918 |
Born Berlin, Germany |
Solo Exhibitions | | | 2008 | 'Recent Sculpture', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | 2006 | 'Recent Work', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | 2003 | Australian Galleries, Melbourne
| | 2002 | Australian Galleries, Sydney
| | 2000 | Australian Galleries, Melbourne
| | 1999 | Australian Galleries, Sydney
| | Sculpture on Site, Sydney Festival The Botanical Gardens, Sydney
| | 1996 | Australian Galleries, Melbourne
| | 1995 | Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria (Survey of works 1943 to 1994)
| | 1994 | Australian Galleries, Sydney
| | 1993 | Australian Galleries, Melbourne
| | 1992 | National Gallery of Victoria (Retrospective)
| | 1991 | Australian Galleries, Sydney
| | 1990 | Deakin University Gallery
| | 1989 | BMG Fine Art Gallery, Adelaide
| | Australian Galleries, Melbourne
| | 1988 | Australian Galleries, Melbourne
| | 1987 | Bonython - Meadmore Gallery, Sydney
| | 1985 | Realities Gallery, Melbourne
| | Bonython - Meadmore Gallery, Sydney
| | 1982 | University Gallery, University of Melbourne
| | 1980 | Realities Gallery, Melbourne
| | 1978 | Victor Mace Gallery, Brisbane
| | Coventry Gallery, Sydney
| | 1977 | Realities Gallery, Melbourne
| | 1973 | Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
| | 1969 | Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
| | 1949 | London Gallery, Brook Street, London |
Group Exhibitions | | | 2007 | 'Small Pleasures: Painting and Sculpture', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | 'Stock Show', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | 2006 | '50th Anniversary Exhibition', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | 'Fine Australian Prints and Drawings', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | 'New Year Group Exhibition', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | 'Stock Show', Australian Galleries, Melbourne | | 2004 | ‘Sculpture’, Australian Galleries, Sydney
| | 2003 | ‘This was the future’ Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
| | 2001 | Sculpture by the Sea, Sydney
| | ‘Six women artists’ Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
| | 2000 | Artfair 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
| | 1993 | Joan and Peter Clemenger Triennial Exhibition of Contemporary Australian Art
| | 1991 | Diverse Visions, Queensland Art Gallery
| | 1990 | Fourth Australian Sculpture Triennial, National Gallery of Victoria
| | 1988 | The World Expo 88 Collection, Brisbane
| | 1987 | Third Australian Sculpture Triennial, Heide Park and Art Gallery, Victoria
| | 1984 | Centre Five, Heide
| | Second Triennial, National Gallery of Victoria
| | Second Triennial, National Gallery of Victoria
| | 1983 | Abstract Art in Australia, Royal Melbourne Institute
| | 1982 | Mildura Arts Centre’s Eighth Triennial Exhibition
| | Second Triennial, National Gallery of Victoria
| | 1981 | First Triennial Exhibition, La Trobe University
| | 1980 | Ian Potter Foundation Sculpture Commission
| | 1979 | Dobell Foundation Market Place, Sydney, Competition
| | Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Staff Exhibition
| | Caulfield City Arts Centre Invitation Purchase Prize
| | 1976 | Caulfield City Arts Centre Invitation Purchase Prize
| | 1975 | Mildura Arts Centre’s Sixth Sculpture (Triennial) Exhibition, Australia ’75
| | Sculptors’ Sculptors, National Gallery of Victoria - Arts Victoria ’75
| | Commonwealth Gardens Exhibition, Canberra, Australia ’75
| | 1974 | Centre Five Exhibition at Geelong and McClelland Galleries
| | Realities, Como Exhibition
| | Ewing Gallery outdoor exhibition
| | 1973 | Cairnmillar Exhibition, Georges Gallery
| | 1972 | Sixteenth Tasmanian Art Gallery Exhibition, Hobart
| | 1971 | Connoisseur’s Competition, Robert Blackwood Hall, Monash University
| | Marland House Sculpture Competition
| | 1970 | Mildura Prize for Sculpture, Mildura Arts Centre’s Fourth Triennial Sculpture Exhibition
| | 1967 | Art 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
| | 1966 | Opening exhibition, sculpture / centre, Canberra
| | 1965 | Centre 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
| | 1964 | Centre Five, Hungry Horse Gallery, Sydney, with Jomantas, Last, Parr, Zikaras
| | Mildura Prize for Sculpture, Mildura Arts Centre’s Second Triennial
| | 1963 | Centre Five, Newcastle City Art Gallery, NSW with Redpath, Jomantas, Kane, Last, Zikaras
| | Victorian Sculptors’ Society Travelling Exhibition
| | 1962 | Art and the Church, St. Peter’s, Eastern Hill, Melbourne
| | Four Arts in Australia, South-East Asia Touring Exhibition
| | 1961 | Nine Sculptors, Argus Gallery, Melbourne
| | Mildura Prize for Sculpture, Mildura Arts Centre’s First Triennial Exhibition
| | 1960 | Victorian Sculptors’ Society Travelling Exhibition
| | 1959 | Six Sculptors, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, with Redpath, Jomantas,
| | 1958 | Victorian Sculptors’ Society Travelling Exhibition
| | 1956 | Victorian Sculptors’ Society, Retrospective Exhibition, Victorian Artists’Society Gallery, Melbourne
| | Twelve Melbourne Sculptors, Brummels Gallery, Melbourne
| | 1955 | Group of Four, School of Architecture, University of Melbourne, with Redpath,
| | 1954 | Victorian Sculptors’ Society Exhibitions
| | 1953 | Present Day Art of Victoria, Victorian Artists’ Society Gallery
| | 1950 | Laurel Gallery, New York
| | 1949 | Clay Club, New York
| | 1948 | London 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
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Awards
| 1997 |
City 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) |
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Alice Springs Prize |
| 1980 |
Visual Arts Board Grant for International Sculpture Conference, Washington |
| 1969 |
Dyason Education Grant |
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British Council Travel Grant |
| 1968 |
Adelaide Festival Prize |
| 1967 |
Eltham Art Prize |
| 1965 |
Eltham Art Prize |
CollectionsArtbank, 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
| 1994 |
Deakin University, Geelong Woolstores Campus (‘Daedalus’)
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Esso Australia, Southbank, Melbourne (‘Sheerwater’) |
| 1992 |
Law Courts, Brisbane (‘Maquette for monumental sculpture’) |
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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’) |
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McClelland Gallery, Langwarrin, VIC (‘Jabaroo’) |
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Newcastle City Art Gallery (‘Enigma’) |
| 1983 |
Wentworth Hotel, Melbourne (‘Full Moon’ Wall sculpture) |
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Art Bank, Sydney (‘Constellation’) |
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State Bank, Elizabeth St., Melbourne (‘Totem’) |
| 1982 |
Melbourne University (‘Sun Ribbon’) |
| 1979-83 |
Australian Steel Award, BHP |
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Hanging Cloud, Deakin University, Geelong Campus |
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Australian National University (‘Black Sun II’) |
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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’) |
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Civic Centre, Wodonga, VIC (‘Fountain’) |
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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 ReviewsNew Year Group Exhibition | The Sunday Age, Preview | 6 Jan 2005
Special NotesExhibitions 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 |
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