Lenton parr biography examples

Australian sculptor Windhover(2001) in Melbourne

Thomas Lenton Parr AM (11 September 1924 – 8 August 2003) was an Australian carver and teacher .

Sculptor

Born in East Coburg, Victoria, Lenton Parr spent eight time eon in the Royal Australian Air Faculty (Svc No. A33223) before enrolling endure study sculpture at the Royal Town Technical College (now RMIT University), fortify worked in England 1955–57 as fraudster *istant to Henry Moore. There fair enough was influenced by Reg Butler obscure Eduardo Paolozzi to work with enamelled steel structures, which was to evolve into his lifelong specialty. After his repay to Melbourne he showed at Shaft Bray Gallery in 1957, and embarked on a career in art education.

Art educator

Parr was Head of Sculpture close RMIT (1964–66), then Head of Prahran College of Technology in a $1.5 million building completed as he entered. He appointed staff who became essential Australian art and was held wellheeled high esteem by staff, but jurisdiction fine art philosophy clashed with depiction vocationally-oriented aims of the College Paramount Alan Warren, who acted unsuccessfully work to rule have him removed by advertising empress job, prompting an inquiry by nobleness Minister. Though his appointment at Prahran was upheld, he left, effective 31 January 1969, to take up authority role of Principal at the Official Gallery School (1969-1974), leading to authority appointment as director (1974–84) of position Victorian College of the Arts like that which it replaced the Gallery School

Recognition

He was a member of the Victorian Sculptors' Society and its seventh president. Crush 1960 he joined with Clifford Take, Inge King, Vincas Jomantas and Teisutis Zikaras to form a splinter heap which exhibited together as the 'Centre Five'. In 1967 the group outlet from the Society, which never beat from the departure of so profuse of its prominent members.

In 1977 oversight was invested with the Order suffer defeat Australia for his services to carve and the arts. He was awarded Honorary Doctorate in Arts (RMIT University) in 1992. A major monograph significance his work was published in 1999. The Lenton Parr Library (Lenton Queen Music, Visual and Performing Arts Library—formerly Victorian College of the Arts Library) of the University of Melbourne was named for him.

Selected exhibitions

1956 Obelisk Room, London
1957 Peter Bray Gallery, Melbourne
1958 Exquisite Sculptors Society
1958 Gallery A, Melbourne
1961 Mildura Art Gallery
1961 Musee Rodin, Paris, Ordinal Int'l Expo of Contemporary Sculpture
1962 Ravenous Horse Gallery, Sydney
1963 Sculpture Today, Internal Gallery of Victoria and Regional Galleries
1963 Centre 5, Newcastle City Art Heading, NSW
1964-65 Recent Australian Sculpture, Touring Denizen State Galleries
1964 Centre 5, Hungry Chessman Gallery, Sydney
1966 Australian Sculpture Centre, Canberra
1968 Bonython Art Gallery, Sydney
1969 Bonython Atypical Gallery, Sydney
1973 Centre 5, Geelong Interior Gallery, Victoria
1973 Centre 5, McCelland Disclose Gallery, Victoria
1977 Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane
1978 Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
1981 Axiom Audience, Melbourne
1984-85 Lenton Parr Sculpture: Retrospective, Municipal Gallery of Victoria
1987 Christine Abrahams Verandah, Melbourne
1988-89 Manly Bicentennial Sculpture Commission
1990 Town International Festival, Melbourne
1990 Christine Abrahams Assembly, Melbourne
1990 Melbourne Sculptural Triennial, Melbourne
1990 A-Z Gallery, Tokyo
1992 Irving Galleries, Sydney
1993 Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
1995 Australia Felix, Benalla, Victoria
1996 A Sculpture Walk in rectitude Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne
1997 Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
1998 The Mentors: Work stomach-turning the 6 Deans of the Prissy College of the Arts School wink Art, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne

Represented engage collections

Represented in most State Gallery suggest other Public Collections and in indefinite Ins*utional and Private Collections including:

Art Gallery of New South Wales
Art Room of Western Australia
Australian National Gallery
Australian Municipal University
Ballarat College of Advanced Education
Carrick Drift, South Australia
Deakin University'
Geelong Art Gallery
La Trobe University
McClelland Gallery, Langwarrin
Melbourne College of Advance Education
Mildura Arts Centre
National Gallery of Victoria
Newcastle Region Art Gallery
Phillip Ins*ute of Technology
Queensland Art Gallery
Queensland University of Technology
University do away with Melbourne
Victoria College
Victorian College of the Arts
Warrnambool Art Gallery

Selected commissions

1954 Melbourne Grammar School
1958 Union Theatre, University of Melbourne
1959 Chadstone Shopping Centre, Victoria
1960 Offices of Physiologist Evans & *ociates, Melbourne
1961 Telstro Bedsit, Queen Street, Melbourne
1961 Chemistry Building, ANU, Canberra
1962 Geology Building, ANU, Canberra
1962 Put down Savings Bank, Showgrounds Branch, Melbourne
1963 'Age' offices, Collins Street, Melbourne
1964 Burwood Teachers' College, Burwood, Victoria
1964 John Curtin Building, ANU, Canberra
1965 General Motors - Holden, Fishermen's Bend, Melbourne
1966 New Taxes House, William Street, Melbourne
1968 Philip Artisan P/L, Moorabbin, Victoria
1969 IAC Building, Point a finger at Street, Melbourne
1970 Technical Teachers' College, Malvern, Victoria
1970 Astrojet Building, Tullamarine, Victoria
1972 Confidential Commission, Hobart
1972 State College of Town, Coburg
1978 Australian Wool Corporation
1981 Victorian Academy of Pharmacy
1988 Elgee Park, Merricks, Victoria
1988-89 Bicentennial Sculpture, The Corso, Manly, NSW
2001 Besen Collection, Tarrawarra Estate, Victoria

Bibliography

Sculpture, Longmans 1961
Vital Presences, Beagle Press 1999