Sculpture

Bronze

Until the mid 1970s, affordable lost wax bronze casting was not available to Australian sculptors.

All bronzes cast by Meridian Sculpture Foundry

Jotham's fable, early 1980s

(Five reliefs. See the original ceramic versions here.)

Based on Judges 9: 7-21 and commemorating those leaders who have worked for non-violent change: Neil Aggatt, Anna Akhmatova, Benigno Aquino, Steve Biko, Dorothy Day, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Rutilio Grande, Franz Jaggerstatter, Victor Jara, Kamal Jumblatt, Martin Luther King, Jnr., Osip Mandelstahm, Jan Patocka, Oscar Romero, Simone Weil.

Mum Shirl (Mrs. Shirley Smith) bronzes, 1985-2001

Located at Jarjum College, Redfern, 2013. (Documentation and more)

Father Ted Kennedy, 2005

(3 reliefs located at Jarjum College). More information

… and on the third day … : Resurrection, 2013

(3 reliefs based on the stories in Mark 16: 1-8; John 20: 15; John 21: 12)

Nagasaki Triptych, Street music for the Virgin, 1992

(3 reliefs, each 750 mm x 580 mm, located at St. Francis College, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, commemorating the lives of Maximilian Kolbe, the Polish Franciscan priest, and Takashi Nagai, a Japanese doctor specialising in radiology. More information here and here.)

Portrait of Mary Cameron, (Dame Mary Gilmore), 1995

Marquette for Wagga Wagga City Library, now owned by the City Council and located at the Wagga Wagga Museum. More information here and here.

Vida Goldstein and friends, 2005

Relief (World War I anti-conscription campaigners Vida Goldstein, John Curtain and Archbishop Daniel Mannix. More information)

John O'Brien Memorial, 1995

Three reliefs, located at St Mel's Church, Narrandera, NSW. John O'Brien (Father Patrick Hartigan) was parish priest of Narrandera; he is famous as 'the bush poet' and was also a respected historian. More

Memorial for Father Tony Glynn, 1994

Relief located at the Japanese Garden, Cowra, NSW. Tony Glynn was an Australian priest living and working in Japan after World War II. He is famous for his pastoral work in Nara, his concern for the abandoned children of Australian Occupation servicemen and his work of reconciliation between peoples who had been deeply divided by war. More information here and here.

See Children of the Occupation: Japan's untold story by Walter Hamilton.