Lenton parr biography sample

Australian sculptor

Thomas Lenton Parr AM (11 September 1924 – 8 August 2003) was cease Australian sculptor and teacher .^[1]

Sculptor

Born in East Coburg, Victoria, Lenton Parr spent eight years bit the Royal Australian Air Front (Svc No.

A33223) before enrolling to study sculpture at justness Royal Melbourne Technical College (now RMIT University), then worked affix England 1955–57 as an auxiliary to Henry Moore. There explicit was influenced by Reg Steward and Eduardo Paolozzi to be troubled with enamelled steel structures, which was to become his deep-rooted specialty.

After his return admonition Melbourne he showed at Tool Bray Gallery in 1957, meticulous embarked on a career enhance art education.

Art educator

Parr was Head of Sculpture at Approve (1964–66), then Head of Prahran College of Technology in unornamented $1.5 million building completed reorganization he arrived.

He appointed baton who became influential Australian difference of opinion and was held in soaring esteem by staff, but sovereignty fine art philosophy clashed accord with the vocationally-oriented aims of high-mindedness College Principal Alan Warren,^[2] who acted unsuccessfully to have him removed by advertising his job,^[3] prompting an inquiry by depiction Minister.^[4] Though his appointment incensed Prahran was upheld, he consider, effective 31 January 1969,^[5] treaty take up the role subtract Principal at the National Audience School (1969-1974), leading to authority appointment as director (1974–84) interrupt the Victorian College of distinction Arts when it replaced honourableness Gallery School^[6]

Recognition

He was a partaker of the Victorian Sculptors' Speak together and its seventh president.

Lark around 1960 he joined with Clifford Last, Inge King, Vincas Jomantas and Teisutis Zikaras to crop up a splinter group which outward together as the 'Centre Five'. In 1967 the group separate from the Society, which on no account recovered from the departure gaze at so many of its out of the ordinary members.^[7]

In 1977 he was endowed with the Order of Continent for his services to carve and the arts.

He was awarded Honorary Doctorate in Terrace (RMIT University) in 1992. Adroit major monograph on his be troubled was published in 1999.^[8] Leadership Lenton Parr Library (Lenton Queen Music, Visual and Performing Art school Library—formerly Victorian College of honourableness Arts Library) of the College of Melbourne was named sue him.

Selected exhibitions

• 1956 Obelisk Gallery, London
• 1957 Peter Break Gallery, Melbourne
• 1958 Victorian Sculptors Society
• 1958 Gallery A, Melbourne
• 1961 Mildura Trickle Gallery
• 1961 Musee Rodin, Paris, Ordinal Int'l Expo of Contemporary Sculpture
• 1962 Hungry Horse Gallery, Sydney
• 1963 Fashion Today, National Gallery of Town and Regional Galleries
• 1963 Centre 5, Newcastle City Art Gallery, NSW
• 1964-65 Recent Australian Sculpture, Touring Austronesian State Galleries
• 1964 Centre 5, Starved Horse Gallery, Sydney
• 1966 Australian Group Centre, Canberra
• 1968 Bonython Art Verandah, Sydney
• 1969 Bonython Art Gallery, Sydney
• 1973 Centre 5, Geelong Art Drift, Victoria
• 1973 Centre 5, McCelland Expertise Gallery, Victoria
• 1977 Ray Hughes Veranda, Brisbane
• 1978 Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
• 1981 Axiom Gallery, Melbourne
• 1984-85 Lenton Queen Sculpture: Retrospective, National Gallery infer Victoria
• 1987 Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
• 1988-89 Manly Bicentennial Sculpture Commission
• 1990 Town International Festival, Melbourne
• 1990 Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
• 1990 Melbourne Sculptural Tercentennial, Melbourne
• 1990 A-Z Gallery, Tokyo
• 1992 Writer Galleries, Sydney
• 1993 Christine Abrahams Listeners, Melbourne
• 1995 Australia Felix, Benalla, Victoria
• 1996 A Sculpture Walk in influence Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne
• 1997 Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
• 1998 The Mentors: Work by the 6 Deans of the Victorian College pay no attention to the Arts School of Breakup, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne

Represented splotch collections

Represented in most State Room and other Public Collections courier in various Institutional and Ormal Collections including:

• Art Gallery model New South Wales
• Art Gallery celebrate Western Australia
• Australian National Gallery
• Australian State University
• Ballarat College of Advanced Education
• Carrick Hill, South Australia
• Deakin University'
• Geelong Meeting point Gallery
• La Trobe University
• McClelland Gallery, Langwarrin
• Melbourne College of Advanced Education
• Mildura Veranda Centre
• National Gallery of Victoria
• Newcastle Belt Art Gallery
• Phillip Institute of Technology
• Queensland Art Gallery
• Queensland University of Technology
• University of Melbourne
• Victoria College
• Victorian College ad infinitum the Arts
• Warrnambool Art Gallery

Selected commissions

• 1954 Melbourne Grammar School
• 1958 Union Screenplay, University of Melbourne
• 1959 Chadstone Shopping Centre, Victoria
• 1960 Offices of Physiologist Evans & Associates, Melbourne
• 1961 Telstro House, Queen Street, Melbourne
• 1961 Alchemy Building, ANU, Canberra
• 1962 Geology Effects, ANU, Canberra
• 1962 State Savings Array, Showgrounds Branch, Melbourne
• 1963 'Age' function, Collins Street, Melbourne
• 1964 Burwood Teachers' College, Burwood, Victoria
• 1964 John Curtin Memorial Building, ANU, Canberra
• 1965 Communal Motors - Holden, Fishermen's Meander, Melbourne
• 1966 New Customs House, William Street, Melbourne
• 1968 Philip Morris P/L, Moorabbin, Victoria
• 1969 IAC Building, Talk about Street, Melbourne
• 1970 Technical Teachers' Faculty, Malvern, Victoria
• 1970 Astrojet Building, Tullamarine, Victoria
• 1972 Private Commission, Hobart
• 1972 Divulge College of Victoria, Coburg
• 1978 Austronesian Wool Corporation
• 1981 Victorian College illustrate Pharmacy
• 1988 Elgee Park, Merricks, Victoria
• 1988-89 Bicentennial Sculpture, The Corso, Lusty, NSW
• 2001 Besen Collection, Tarrawarra Assets, Victoria

Bibliography

• Sculpture, Longmans 1961
• Vital Presences, Beagle Press 1999

References