Pictured in the foreground above is Jock Clutterbuck’s award winning sculpture ‘Niagara’ (1970), aluminium, 135.5 x 184 x 116 cm installed at ‘Melbourne Modern’, RMIT Gallery 2019.
Melbourne Modern: European art and design at RMIT since 1945
In the wake of World War II hundreds of exiled and displaced European artists, architects and designers arrived in Melbourne and sought employment with RMIT. Melbourne Modern traces a legacy of European intervention and interdisciplinarity through successive generations of RMIT teachers and students to the present day.
Curated by Jane Eckett and Harriet Edquist, Melbourne Moderns is a free event and current at RMIT Gallery on Swanston Street in Melbourne until Saturday 17 August 2019.
Featuring:
George Baldessin
Geoffrey Bartlett
Jock Clutterbuck
Hermann Hohaus
Grahame King
Inge King
Hertha Kluge-Pott
George Baldessin, Performance II (1965), etching aquatint, edition 10, 31 x 30.5 cm
Geoffrey Bartlett, FJ Holden (1977), jarrah, Oregon steel, iron, 263 x 228 x 91 cm
Hermann Hohaus, Seated woman (n.d), bronze, 120 x 55 x 80 cm
Grahame King, Crater (1963), lithograph in colour printed from four plates, edition 25, 63.5 x 42 cm
Inge King, Daruma, Maquette for Garden Sculpture (1978), steel painted black, 28 x 35.5 x 69 cm
Hertha Kluge-Pott, Beatle Dance (1962), aquatint, printed in three colours from three plates on Fabriano paper, edition 15, 30.5 x 30.5 cm
All images courtesy of the artists and RMIT Gallery, Melbourne.