irritation, he made a series of steel pipes and coiled wire, but they read INGE KING towers 15 metres above the pavement. DEAN BOWEN DEAKIN 7 11 using the emblems but holding them up as exotic plants that have unexpectedly Born 1915* Deakin’s Marathon Man, however, is Born Maryborough, Victoria, 1957. UNIVERSITY to laughter and ridicule. In his so-called grown from the lawn; they suggest that Arrived 1951. human in scale and appears to stride Lives and works in . MELBOURNE Maquette For Public Monument (2003), nature can still survive in an architectural Lives in Melbourne. vigorously forward, as though joining BURWOOD the silhouette of the kangaroo stands setting. the passing pedestrians. Dean Bowen has had numerous solo CAMPUS on its head. Originally apprenticed to a woodcarver exhibitions and participated in many in Berlin, Inge King attended the Berlin group shows throughout Australia PETER D COLE Academy of Fine Arts before moving to AUGUSTINE DALL’AVA as well as in Paris, London, Geneva, 9 WALK BRUCE ARMSTRONG 5 Born Gawler, South Australia, 1947. London, where she became a student at Born Grenoble, France, 1950. Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto. 3 Born Melbourne 1957. Lives and works in Kyneton, the Royal Academy. Later she enrolled Arrived Australia 1955. FEATURED WORKS Lives and works in Melbourne. Victoria. at the School of Art and was Lives and works in Melbourne. Bowen looks at the world with the eyes Text prepared by Ken Scarlett OAM awarded both a Diploma and Post of a child, delighting in birds and bees, Massive Red Gum figures and imaginative Whereas landscape has been a Diploma in 1943. Augustine Dall’Ava has carried out a number cats and dogs and the animals of the GEOFFREY BARLETT creatures are typical of Bruce Armstrong’s reoccurring subject for Australian of public commissions though the majority bush. His world is populated with friendly 1 Born Melbourne 1952. output. Some are mildly friendly, such painters, this has not been the case with Except for a small number of figurative of his works are on a smaller scale, suitable farmers and ladies holding bunches of Lives and works in Melbourne. as the two beasts that once reclined Australian sculptors. Peter D Cole is the works produced early in her career, for indoor locations. Always meticulously flowers despite being threatened by at the entrance to the National Gallery exception: the landscape of his early King has been known for most of her crafted, and frequently defying gravity, encroaching suburbia and choking traffic. In 1990, Geoffrey Bartlett visited a of Victoria, others are as ferocious as childhood at Gawler and the dry, sparsely life as an abstract sculptor. Nevertheless, his works can be easily identified by friend’s farm at Moyston where he was medieval dragons or as mysterious as treed land near Kyneton have provided a significant change can be noted in 1989- the adventurous assemblage of brightly Whimsically, due to the similarity profoundly impressed by the age-old River a crocodile-headed Egyptian god. His him with his subject matter. 90 when she produced Joie De Vivre, a painted forms in wood, metal and stone. between the spikey appearance of the Red Gums. A week later, a truck-load of human figures are equally massive, series of dancing figures for the foyer of Echidna and the artist’s hair-style, this massive trunks and gnarled branches was sometimes maternal, other times He has evolved a personal visual language ICI House, Melbourne. Subsequently there Distilled Knowledge (2000) was a creature has appeared frequently in both delivered; they sat in his studio for four diabolically demonic. whereby a series of symbols represent the was a flow of works based on the human commission for , prints and sculpture by Dean Bowen. years before he could resolve how to sun and the moon, the rocks on the earth, figure – including a series of angels, and Dall ‘Ava thought symbolic content use them. In Greek mythology the lotus-eaters the stars in the sky, the linear pattern of a Kneeling Angel, 1993, Running Angels, seemed appropriate. Consequently the were a race of people living on an island tree or the vast dome of the sky. And like 1994 and Guardian Angel, 1995. tall, upward pointing conical structure MAX LYLE Silver Cloud (1995) was the second in near North Africa where the lotus fruits a child with colourful building blocks, he was designed to represent evaporation, 12 Born Melbourne, 1935. a series of monumental sculptures that and flowers, the primary food of the has proceeded to assemble his sculptures The work at Deakin was fabricated by the hemi-sphere a formalized cloud and Lives and works in Adelaide. Bartlett produced in which the River Red island, were supposedly narcotic, causing in space or to arrange the symbols on J. K. Fasham, using large plates of steel, the zig-zag forms at the top to represent Gum was the starting point for some the people to fall sleep. Armstrong’s paper as pastel drawings. painted black, with the addition of a falling rain. The granite basin acts as Fountain (1967) is a most unusual radical assemblages of quite disparate Lotus Eater (1993) is introspective and stylized wing in rich red. Undoubtedly, a receptacle for gathering distilled combination of two opposing structures materials, such as galvanized steel, withdrawn from the world, physically In Landscape Figure (2001), the links to it is an angel of the twentieth century. water – symbolizing the distillation which sweep upwards and then descend stainless steel, copper and bronze. Silver very powerful, yet restrained within the the landscape have become minimal and of knowledge within the University. dramatically downwards. Originally, Cloud is a very successful, yet completely huge block of Red Gum. The apparent the emphasis has been given to simple *1918 has frequently been given as the Yet even disregarding the symbolism, it was designed to spurt water from unlikely combination of an extremely heavy simplicity of Armstrong’s style of sculptural elements, enlivened by a bold date of Inge King’s birth, but the artist has the sculpture works convincingly a row of projecting conical forms with log of wood and three floating forms all sculpture frequently hides a range use of colour. of recent times stated that 1915 is correct. when viewed in purely abstract terms. the water splashing against sheets of balanced on two very small points – almost of myths, ideas and emotions. glass before dispersing amongst the as though airborne. Characteristically, bed of river stones. Bartlett has surprised us yet again with ADRIAN MAURIKS ANTHONY PRYOR KONSTANTIN DIMOPOULOS 6 8 10 his highly original sculptural solution. BRIGIT HELLER Born Hertogenbosch, Holland, Born Melbourne, 1951. Born Port Said, Egypt, 1954. Max Lyle remembers that it was Bill 4 Born Switzerland, 1964. 1942. Arrived Australia 1957. Died Melbourne, 1991. Arrived Australia 2003. Splatt, a member of staff at Toorak Arrived New Zealand 1997 Lives and works in Gippsland. Lives and works in Melbourne. Teachers College, who organized JOHN KELLY and Australia 1998. A trip to Japan early in his career had the commissioning of Fountain, 2 Born London, 1965. Lives and works in Lancefield. After a period constructing sculptures a profound influence on Anthony Konstantin Dimopoulos was first noted but remarkably, it was the Student Arrived Australia 1965, from welded steel, Adrian Mauriks Pryor’s aesthetic development. Works in Australia for his highly distinctive Union which provided the funding. departed 1996. For a sculptor who is greatly influenced settled on the process of establishing constructed in wood were immaculately installations of masses of flexible shafts Lives and works in Ireland. by her environment, coming from the basic forms in polystyrene, which crafted, not only exhibiting a Japanese of carbon fiber, usually in a single strong The work was transferred from the old Switzerland, green and closely cultivated, he then covered with several layers of sensibility to natural materials, but colour, such as his favorite orange-red. Toorak Campus in Malvern to Deakin During World War II, the painter William to the sparsely populated open spaces fiberglass impregnated with epoxy resin. also often displaying particular means The Sculpture Red Centre (2006), a clutch University’s Burwood campus, but as Dobell was reputed to have made several of Australia must have been a visual His installations, painted a glistening of assembling and joining. As well, he of rods flexing in the wind, installed on this happened at a time of drought and papier-mâché cows which were distributed shock for Brigit Heller. As she has said: white, have become well-known features evolved a series of symbols: a cube Federation Square, Melbourne is a well- acute water shortage, the work was not across an airfield to confuse Japanese ‘In many ways I have reinvented myself at Docklands and on the highway to representing the individual, the zig zag known example. re-established as a fountain. bomber pilots. Kelly made numerous by moving to Australia,’ yet she has also Geelong. symbolizing human energy and a series paintings and several sculptures using a brought memories of the past with her. of unfolding, repetitious forms that Since 2005 he has also carried out a Fortunately, even without the play of stylized version of these cows, the most Her maternal grandfather was a basket Compilation (2003) is exactly what the signify movement. number of ephemeral installations in water, the work can read as an original, famous being the Cow Up a Tree (1999), weaver, a traditional technique which title suggests, a gathering of several which he has painted the trunks and unexpected relationship of two striking which was originally exhibited on the Heller has adapted to a range of materials disparate forms into one unified Marathon Man (1990), assembled from branches of groves of trees a bright forms rearing up like exotic plants from Champs-Élysées in Paris, and can now found in the new environment. assemblage based on motifs that the several cast and fabricated sections, ultramarine blue, his aim being to draw an arid landscape of rocks. be seen at Melbourne’s Docklands. artist had previously used. The ‘doorway’ reads as a running figure despite the attention to global deforestation. It is revealing that Heller has chosen to is easily identified, the tall structures three legs which became a feature of the After receiving a small grant from the live in a country area where she can scour resemble plant growth, while the sculptor’s work. In very large-scale public Dimopoulos has created sculptures Australia Council, Kelly was obliged to use the land for natural materials such as curvilinear form suggests a reclining commissions such as The Legend (1991) and installations for public and private their logo, which consisted of a kangaroo willow branches or coils of rusted wire in figure. The sculptor invites the spectator outside the Melbourne Cricket Ground, collections in Australia, New Zealand, and the sun, but he became involved in a order to construct organic forms such as to enter a pristine garden of mysterious the three-legged structure is necessary England, the United States, Canada dispute with this funding body. Obeying Poles Apart (2003). A quick glance reveals delights, to exit this frenetic world and in order to stabilize the sculpture, which and the United Arab Emirates. the letter of the law, but expressing his that these commanding works are built of to relax in quiet contemplation.

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Deakin University CRICOS Provider Code: 00113B back cover 1 2 3 4 5 6 SILVER CLOUD, 1995 MAQUETTE FOR PUBLIC LOTUS EATER, 1993 POLES APART, 2003 LANDSCAPE FIGURE, 2001 COMPILATION, 2003 River Red Gum and galvanized steel MONUMENT, 2003 Red Gum Steel pipes and steel wire, six units. Painted welded steel, Steel, fibreglass and epoxy resin, Purchase, 1998 Corten steel Purchase, 1998 Purchase, 2004 Purchase, 2008 painted white. Donated through the Australian Purchase, 2007 Government’s Cultural Gifts Program GEOFFREY by Robert McDonald, 2013 BRUCE BRIGIT PETER BARLETT ARMSTRONG HELLER D. COLE ADRIAN Diploma of Fine Art (Sculpture), JOHN BA Sculpture, 1980, RMIT and Certificate of Art and Design, Diploma of Fine Art, Sculpture, MAURIKS RMIT, 1973; Post Graduate Diploma, KELLY Graduate Diploma in Sculpture, Auckland Institute of Technology, South Australian School of Art, 1968. Diploma of Sculpture, 1975, VCA, Fine Art (Sculpture), RMIT, 1976; RMIT, 1981. 1997 Bachelor of Fine Arts at VCA Post Graduate Diploma in Fine Art, Master of Fine Arts (Hons), Columbia BA (Visual Arts Painting) RMIT, 1985; 1999, Master of Visual Arts, Monash 1977, VCA. University, New York, 1985. Master of Arts, RMIT, 1995. University, ongoing.

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FOUNTAIN, 1967 GUARDIAN ANGEL, 1995 Copper, glass, aluminium Polychrome welded steel set in an area of water-washed Purchase, 1997 river stones, Purchase, 1986 INGE KING MAX Diploma of Fine Art (Sculpture), RMIT, 1973; Post Graduate Diploma, LYLE Fine Art (Sculpture), RMIT, 1976; Diploma of Art (Sculpture), RMIT, Master of Fine Arts (Hons), Columbia 1958. University, New York, 1985. Doctorate in Literature, Deakin University, 1990.

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ECHIDNA, 2013 MARATHON MAN, 1990 Bronze Bronze Purchase, 2014 Purchase, 1998

DEAN ANTHONY BOWEN PRYOR Diploma of Fine Art, RMIT, 1976; Diploma of Fine Art (Sculpture), Master of Arts (printmaking) Monash RMIT,1973; Fellowship in Fine Art, University, 1993; Ph.D (Printmaking), Sculpture, RMIT, 1974.Master of Monash University, 1999. Fine Arts (Hons), Columbia University, New York, 1985.

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RED FIELD, 2014 DISTILLED KNOWLEDGE, 2000 High performance composites, Welcome to the Sculpture Walk. The numbers are Painted steel and granite paint, concrete and steel, for you to identify the sculptures; you don’t have Purchase, 2001 Purchase, 2014 DEAKIN UNIVERSITY to follow the walk sequentially, just jump in at any point! MELBOURNE AUGUSTINE KONSTANTIN The sculptures form a part of Deakin University’s DALL’AVA DIMOPOULOS BURWOOD CAMPUS Art Collection. Be sure to stop at the Art Gallery to Diploma of Fine Art, RMIT, 1973, BA Sociology, Victoria University New see more of the Collection or our latest exhibition. Master of Fine Arts, Monash Zealand, 1974; Chelsea School of Art, University, 1994. London, 1980’s SCULPTURE WALK For more information see our website: deakin.edu.au/artcollection

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