Wednesday, March 25, 2020

Artist of the day, March 25, 2020: Ron Robertson-Swann, an Australian sculptor (#951)

Ronald Charles Robertson-Swann OAM (1941), is an Australian sculptor, best known for his controversial abstract public sculpture Vault. His sculpture has been described as being in the Anthony Caro style, 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. He is Head of Sculpture at the National Art School and is the artistic adviser to the popular annual exhibition Sculpture by the Sea. He was a founding member of the Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council and has won numerous awards including the Comalco Invitational Sculpture Award, the Transfeld Prize and the Alice Prize.

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"

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Mr. Ron Robertson-Swann
Beethoven. 1968
Lemonade. 1969
Husk. 1974
Vault. 1978
Vault II. 1980
 Ventex. 1981
 Ventex. 1981
The Vault: Yellow Peril. 1982
Leviathan Play. 1985
Untitled. 1989
Open Road. 1989-90
Before the Mirror. 1994
Cornucopia. 1994
To Rise and Fall. 1996.
Anna Livia Plurabelle. 1997
Clinch. 2006
The Well. 2006
So Far So Good. 2009
Untitled (Metallic Green). 2011
 Inner Sanctum. 2011
Weighty matters. 2013
Gonzalez’s absinthe glass. 2014
 Tony's Tower II. 2014
Mobile sculpture. 2018
Smooth passage. 2018
On the way up. 2019
 Chariot. 2019
Set in motion. 2019
Square Off
Untitled
Untitled

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