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SYDNEY 6 Artist Timeline Museum of Modern Art 2013 Sydney Moderns Art 1962 New Influences Exhibition, Newcastle City Art ARTIST TIMELINES Gallery of NSW Gallery, Newcastle 1969 The Comalco Invitation Award for Sculpture in Aluminium, Bonython A G REPRESENTED 1971 Marland House Sculpture Competition, Age FRANK HINDER National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Art Gallery, Melbourne 1973 Frank and Margel Hinder Gallery of New South Wales Sydney, Queensland, Retrospective, Newcastle City Art Gallery; Gallery born 1906 Summer Hill NSW – died 1992 Sydney Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia, A, Sydney Frank Hinder / Margel Hinder NSW 1980 Tasmania, Newcastle, Australian War Memorial, Retrospective, Art Gallery of NSW 1992, 1994 Canberra, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Bathurst & Frank and Margel Hinder, Bloomfield Galleries, 1924 Royal Art Society of New South Wales, under Penrith Regional Galleries, Broken Hill Art Gallery, Sydney 2013 Sydney Moderns Art Gallery of NSW Dattilo-Rubbo 1925-27 East Sydney Technical Hamilton City Art Gallery, Warnambool Art Gallery, College, Sydney 1927-28 Art Institute of Chicago, Private collections in USA, UK, Australia and REPRESENTED Chicago 1929 New York School of Fine and New Zealand National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; state Applied Art, New York 1930 Master Institute at and regional art Galleries in New South Wales, Roerich Museum, New York/Marriage to Margel Queensland & Newcastle; Bathurst & Penrith Harris 1931-34 Child-Walker School of Fine Arts, MARGEL HINDER Regional Art Galleries; University of Technology, Boston, USA, instructor, Costume Design and Pen born 1906 Brooklyn USA – died 1995 Sydney NSW Sydney, Corporate and public collections/ and Ink 1932 Co-founder & instructor, experimental commissions in Australia; Private collections in art colony, New Hampshire 1933 Summer 1909 Moved to Buffalo. Attends children’s classes, USA, UK, Australia & New Zealand School, Taos, New Mexico, run by Emil Bisttram Albright Gallery, from age 5 1911 Awarded prize 1938 Managed Grosvenor Galleries with Margel for sculpture. 1920-24 Studied dancing under pupil Hinder 1939-44 Instructor & Research Officer of of Isadora Duncan; interest in dance as movement GERALD LEWERS Camouflage Wing, Royal Aust. Engineers 1946- rather than interpretation 1925 School of Fine Arts born 1905 Hobart TAS – died 1962 Nth QLD 58 National Art School, Sydney. Built marionette of Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright Art Gallery. theatre, held puppetry classes 1957 Our Changing Influenced by works of Rodin; Awarded Cary 1924-6 Studied part-time East Sydney Technical Cities, Caltex Art Prize, Sydney 1958-64 Head, Prize for sculpture 1926-29 School of Museum of College 1926-9 Evening classes studying drawing, Art Department, Sydney Teachers College 1968 Fine Arts, Boston 1929 Summer painting school lettering, Dattilo-Rubbo’s Art School, met Margo Began teaching National Art School, Sydney (part- at Moriah. Met Frank Hinder at this school 1930 Plate, joined family construction company, time) 1974 Trustee, Art Gallery of New South Married Frank Hinder 1930-34 Occasional classes encounters range of timber and stone 1931 Brief Wales 1979 Awarded the Australia Medal, General at Child-Walker School of Fine Art, Boston 1931 visit to Europe, studied drawing and painting at Division, Order of Australia Daughter Enid born 1932 Cook and chaperone Kunstgewerbeschule, Vienna under Koenig 1933- at art colony in New Hampshire. Lived according 4 Married Margo Plate, travels to Europe. Attends SIGNIFICANT EXHIBITIONS to Plato’s theories. 1933 Taos, New Mexico for Central School of Arts & Crafts, London, studies 1933 Boston USA 1937 Grosvenor Galleries, summer school with Emil Bisttram 1934 Migrated sculpture under John Skeaping, travels Europe Sydney 1939 Exhibition 1, David Jones Gallery, to Australia (never returned to USA) 1935 Studied 1939 Founding member, Contemporary Arts Sydney 1940-60s Regular exhibitor, Contemporary under Eleonore Lange 1938 Managed Grosvenor Society, Sydney 1950 Moves from Sydney to Emu Art Society 1944 Macquarie Galleries, Sydney Galleries with Frank Hinder 1939 Special prize Plains, becomes full-time sculptor 1951 Founding 1948 David Jones Art Gallery, Sydney, first group (in association with Frank Hinder) for sculptural member Society of Sculptors & Associates 1956 exhibition of abstract influenced art in Australia, with panels, entrance to new Sydney Water Board Visited China with Australian Cultural Delegation Margel Hinder, Gerald Lewers, Fizelle, Crowley, building 1939-44 Worked with Frank Hinder, 1959 Visited Asia and Europe; ‘City Fountains’ Balson, Eleanore Lange 1950 Blaxland Gallery, Camouflage Section, Department of Home competition second prize Sydney 1951 Macquarie Galleries, Sydney 1952 Security, making models of aircraft and ships, Blake Prize for Religious Art 1953 A Retrospective now in Australian War Memorial, Canberra 1949- SIGNIFICANT EXHIBITIONS AND Exhibition of Australian Painting, Art Gallery of NSW 50 Taught sculpture part-time at National Art COMMISSIONS 1953-54 12 Australian Artists, Arts Council of School, Sydney 1953 Honorable mention, equal 1934 Exhibits sculpture, Six Colonial Artists, Great Britain, London 1954 Macquarie Galleries, third, The Unknown Political Prisoner, international Cooling Galleries, London 1939 Exhibition Sydney; Australia’s Best Textile Designs 1956 sculpture competition, organised by Institute of 1, Sydney, first group exhibition of abstract Macquarie Galleries, Sydney; The Arts Festival of Contemporary Arts, London. Began working in influenced art in Australia, with Frank and Margel the Olympic Games, Melbourne, National Gallery metal instead of wood 1955 Contemporary Art Hinder, Fizelle, Crowley, Balson, Eleanore Lange of Victoria 1957 International Association of Society’s Madach Prize for best abstract work 1957 1940s-50s Exhibitor, Contemporary Art Society. Plastic Arts, UNESCO House, Paris & Dubrovnik Contemporary Art Society’s Clint Prize 1959 Won Sandstone sculpture ‘Nudibranch’, Commonwealth 1959-60 Matson Lines Exhibition of Australian Art, design competition for Anzac House sculpture, Experimental Building Research Station, Ryde California 1960 Fifteen Contemporary Australian Sydney (not commissioned) 1961 Won Civic Park 1945 Poet Christopher Brennan’s memorial Painters, London & Sydney 1961 VI Bienal de Sao Fountain Competition, Newcastle 1961 Won Blake stone, Northern Suburbs Cemetery, Sydney; Paulo, Brazil 1962 War Memorial; Gallery of Fine Prize for Sculpture 1962 Won Design competition Inaugural exhibition ‘Sydney Group’; exhibits with Arts, University of Sydney; Festival of Performing for Free-Standing Sculpture, Reserve Bank Sydney Society of Artists 1948 Abstract Art, group show, Arts, Athens; Dominion Art Gallery, Sydney 1978 Visited China 1979 Awarded Australia Medal, David Jones Art Gallery, Sydney 1949 Sculpture 1963 Macquarie Galleries, Sydney; National Art General Division, Order of Australia exhibition, David Jones Art Gallery 1950 Australian Gallery, Kuala Lumpur 1964 Theatre Design Board of Trade Sculpture Exhibition, with Margel Exhibition, New Zealand; Macquarie Galleries, SIGNIFICANT COMMISSIONS Hinder & others, Rockefeller Centre, New York Sydney 1966 Macquarie Galleries, Sydney; 1959 Abstract Sculpture, Western Assurance 1951 Inaugural exhibition Society of Sculptors; Balson, Crowley, Fizelle, Hinder Retrospective, Company, Sydney 1960 Carlton-Rex Hotel, all subsequent exhibitions 1952 Joint exhibition AGNSW & Newcastle City Art Gallery 1967 Prague Sydney; Canberra-Rex Hotel, Canberra 1963 with Margo Lewers, David Jones Art Gallery, Quadrennial of Theatre Design and Architecture Revolving Sphere, Monaro Mall, Civic Centre, Sydney, Peter Bray Gallery, Melbourne 1953 1968 von Bertouch Galleries, Newcastle; Barry Canberra (assisted by Frank Hinder and Frank Sandstone sculpture, ‘Reclining Figure’, Australian Stern Galleries, Sydney 1970 Toorak Art Gallery, Lumb) 1964 Free-Standing Sculpture, Reserve National University 1956 Joint exhibition with Melbourne; Bonython Gallery, Sydney; Ballarat Fine Bank of Australia, Sydney (assisted by Frank Margo Lewers, David Jones Art Gallery; Olympic A G 1973 Frank and Margel Hinder Retrospective, Hinder and Frank Lumb) 1966 Captain James Games Arts Festival Exhibition, Melbourne; Newcastle City Art Gallery; Gallery A, Sydney 1974 Cook Memorial Fountain, Civic Park, Newcastle Commonwealth Bank sandstone & metal relief Toorak Art Gallery, Melbourne 1977 Gallery A, (assisted by Frank Hinder, sections fabricated by commission 1957 MLC Building landscape garden Sydney; von Bertouch Galleries, Newcastle 1978 Kevin Goodridge) 1972 Sculptural Form, Woden with 7 large abstract forms (joint commission with Frank Hinder: Lithographs, Bloomfield Galleries, Town Square, Canberra 1973 Free-Standing Margo Lewers) 1958 ICI fountain commission, Sydney 1979 Bloomfield Galleries, Sydney 1980 Sculpture, Telecommunication Building, Adelaide ICI (now Orica) building, Melbourne 1960 Solo Frank and Margel Hinder-A Retrospective, Art exhibition, Terry Clune Gallery, Sydney; J Christie Gallery NSW; Gallery A 1981 Niagara Galleries, SIGNIFICANT EXHIBITIONS Wright Memorial fountain commission, Macquarie Melbourne 1983-1988; 1990 Aspects of Frank 1939 Exhibition 1, David Jones Gallery, Sydney Street Sydney; Fountain for Coca-Cola factory, Hinder exhibitions, Bloomfield Galleries1992; 1994 1946-59 Contemporary Art Society, Sydney - 1946- Kingsgrove; Theadon Hancock Memorial fountain, Bloomfield Galleries (with Margel Hinder)1993 von 48; ‘55,
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