Ron Robertson-Swann

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Ron Robertson-Swann
Born1941 (1941) (age 83)
Sydney, Australia
NationalityAustraliaAustralian
EducationSaint Martin's School of Art, London
Known forSculpture
Notable work'Vault', Melbourne
AwardsOrder of Australia Medal (OAM )

Ron Robertson-Swann OAM (born 1941, Sydney), is an Australian sculptor, best known for his controversial abstract public sculpture Vault (1980).[1][2] His sculpture has been described as being in the Anthony Caro style,[3] which he adopted after studying at Saint Martin's School of Art, London, in the 1960s. He studied under Lyndon Dadswell and was an assistant to Henry Moore.[4] He is Head of Sculpture at the National Art School and is the artistic adviser to the popular annual exhibition Sculpture by the Sea.[5] He was a founding member of the Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council[6] and has won numerous awards including the Comalco Invitational Sculpture Award, the Transfeld Prize and the Alice Prize.[6]

Graeme Sturgeon, the pre-eminent Australian sculpture historian and critic, described Robertson-Swann in 1980 as "the most consistent of the Classic Formalist, that is, the one most concerned to produce a sculpture which, while obviously of its era, transcends considerations of style in search of a timeless sense of rightness."[4]

References

  1. ^ Attwood, Alan (19 June 2004). "Peril in the Square: The Sculpture that Challenged a City". The Age. Retrieved 8 January 2013.
  2. ^ Webb, Carolyn (3 October 2002). "Melbourne's mellow peril". The Age. Retrieved 8 January 2013.
  3. ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20070223143623/http://www.artcollection.unsw.edu.au/sculpture_walk. Archived from the original on 23 February 2007. Retrieved 25 March 2007. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help); Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  4. ^ a b https://web.archive.org/web/20070829075839/http://randm.net.au/BBPages/Vault.htm. Archived from the original on 29 August 2007. Retrieved 25 March 2007. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help); Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  5. ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20070304062857/http://www.sculpturebythesea.com/html/history.htm. Archived from the original on 4 March 2007. Retrieved 25 March 2007. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help); Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  6. ^ a b "Ron Robertson-Swann, AO". National Sculpture Prize and Exhibition 2003. National Gallery of Australia. Retrieved 9 January 2013.

External links

Further reading

  • Wallis, Geoffrey J., Peril in the Square: The sculpture that challenged a city, Indra Publishing, Melbourne, 2004. ISBN 9781920787004


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