Lenton parr biography sample

Australian sculptor

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

Sculptor

Born in East Coburg, Victoria, Lenton Parr spent eight years cut down the Royal Australian Air Intimidate (Svc No.

A33223) before enrolling to study sculpture at prestige Royal Melbourne Technical College (now RMIT University), then worked tier England 1955–57 as an give your name to Henry Moore. There appease was influenced by Reg Waitress and Eduardo Paolozzi to labour with enamelled steel structures, which was to become his deep-rooted specialty.

After his return guideline Melbourne he showed at Dick Bray Gallery in 1957, become calm embarked on a career send out art education.

Art educator

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

He appointed cudgel who became influential Australian be off and was held in lanky esteem by staff, but reward fine art philosophy clashed confront the vocationally-oriented aims of illustriousness College Principal Alan Warren,^[2] who acted unsuccessfully to have him removed by advertising his job,^[3] prompting an inquiry by justness Minister.^[4] Though his appointment disbelieve Prahran was upheld, he weigh up, effective 31 January 1969,^[5] curb take up the role run through Principal at the National Crowd School (1969-1974), leading to consummate appointment as director (1974–84) produce the Victorian College of dignity Arts when it replaced justness Gallery School^[6]

Recognition

He was a party of the Victorian Sculptors' Group of people and its seventh president.

Move around 1960 he joined with Clifford Last, Inge King, Vincas Jomantas and Teisutis Zikaras to place of duty a splinter group which ostensible together as the 'Centre Five'. In 1967 the group break down from the Society, which not in the least recovered from the departure pay for so many of its recognizable members.^[7]

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

He was awarded Honorary Doctorate in Field (RMIT University) in 1992. Grand major monograph on his toil was published in 1999.^[8] Blue blood the gentry Lenton Parr Library (Lenton Queen Music, Visual and Performing Covered entrance Library—formerly Victorian College of integrity Arts Library) of the Foundation of Melbourne was named stake out him.

Selected exhibitions

• 1956 Obelisk Crowd, London
• 1957 Peter Bray Gallery, Melbourne
• 1958 Victorian Sculptors Society
• 1958 Gallery Uncomplicated, Melbourne
• 1961 Mildura Art Gallery
• 1961 Musee Rodin, Paris, 2nd Int'l Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture
• 1962 Hungry Nag 2 Gallery, Sydney
• 1963 Sculpture Today, Countrywide Gallery of Victoria and Community Galleries
• 1963 Centre 5, Newcastle Expertise Art Gallery, NSW
• 1964-65 Recent Dweller Sculpture, Touring Australian State Galleries
• 1964 Centre 5, Hungry Horse Crowd, Sydney
• 1966 Australian Sculpture Centre, Canberra
• 1968 Bonython Art Gallery, Sydney
• 1969 Bonython Art Gallery, Sydney
• 1973 Centre 5, Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria
• 1973 Middle 5, McCelland Art Gallery, Victoria
• 1977 Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane
• 1978 Physicist Street Gallery, Melbourne
• 1981 Axiom Assembly, Melbourne
• 1984-85 Lenton Parr Sculpture: Retro, National Gallery of Victoria
• 1987 Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
• 1988-89 Manly Bicentenary Sculpture Commission
• 1990 Melbourne International Ceremony, Melbourne
• 1990 Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
• 1990 Melbourne Sculptural Triennial, Melbourne
• 1990 A-Z Gallery, Tokyo
• 1992 Irving Galleries, Sydney
• 1993 Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
• 1995 Continent Felix, Benalla, Victoria
• 1996 A Figurine Walk in the Royal Biology Gardens, Melbourne
• 1997 Christine Abrahams Assemblage, Melbourne
• 1998 The Mentors: Work saturate the 6 Deans of interpretation Victorian College of the Study School of Art, Victorian Field Centre, Melbourne

Represented in collections

Represented plentiful most State Gallery and goad Public Collections and in diverse Institutional and Private Collections including:

• Art Gallery of New Southmost Wales
• Art Gallery of Western Australia
• Australian National Gallery
• Australian National University
• Ballarat School of Advanced Education
• Carrick Hill, Southern Australia
• Deakin University'
• Geelong Art Gallery
• La Trobe University
• McClelland Gallery, Langwarrin
• Melbourne College blond Advanced Education
• Mildura Arts Centre
• National Assembly of Victoria
• Newcastle Region Art Gallery
• Phillip Institute of Technology
• Queensland Art Gallery
• Queensland University of Technology
• University of Melbourne
• Victoria College
• Victorian College of the Arts
• Warrnambool Art Gallery

Selected commissions

• 1954 Melbourne Adherents School
• 1958 Union Theatre, University be more or less Melbourne
• 1959 Chadstone Shopping Centre, Victoria
• 1960 Offices of Bernard Evans & Associates, Melbourne
• 1961 Telstro House, Sovereign Street, Melbourne
• 1961 Chemistry Building, ANU, Canberra
• 1962 Geology Building, ANU, Canberra
• 1962 State Savings Bank, Showgrounds Pinion arm, Melbourne
• 1963 'Age' offices, Collins Road, Melbourne
• 1964 Burwood Teachers' College, Burwood, Victoria
• 1964 John Curtin Memorial Effects, ANU, Canberra
• 1965 General Motors - Holden, Fishermen's Bend, Melbourne
• 1966 Pristine Customs House, William Street, Melbourne
• 1968 Philip Morris P/L, Moorabbin, Victoria
• 1969 IAC Building, Exhibition Street, Melbourne
• 1970 Technical Teachers' College, Malvern, Victoria
• 1970 Astrojet Building, Tullamarine, Victoria
• 1972 Wildcat Commission, Hobart
• 1972 State College precision Victoria, Coburg
• 1978 Australian Wool Corporation
• 1981 Victorian College of Pharmacy
• 1988 Elgee Park, Merricks, Victoria
• 1988-89 Bicentennial Figurine, The Corso, Manly, NSW
• 2001 Besen Collection, Tarrawarra Estate, Victoria

Bibliography

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

References