The Estate of Norma Redpath
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Norma Redpath
Paesaggio Cariatide, 1980
Bronze
19.60 x 32.50 x 5.40
Edition 2/8 (cast in 2018), stamped 1/8 underneath base
Provenance:
Exhibited:
Norma Redpath: Works from the studio, 1970s & 80s, Charles Nodrum Gallery, 21 June - 7 July, 2018, no. 3;
Norma Redpath & Martyn Reynolds, SydneySydney, 9 February - 9 March, 2019
Literature & references:
Norma Redpath, Ideas and Images: Theatres of the Mind, unpublished manuscript, 1985, pp. 6, 78-9;
‘Public’s Art’, Our Bank: State Bank of Victoria, October 1985, illustrated p. 4;
Michael Hedger, Public Sculpture in Australia, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1995, p. 96, illus. p. 97;
Victoria Gurvich, ‘Work of the week: Landscape Caryatid [sic], 1980-85’, The Age, 13 December 2003, review, p. 7; Ken Wach, ‘Australian sculptor who was enamoured with Italy’, The Age, 23 January 2013, colour illus. p. 14.
Note:
This is a 2018 bronze casting of the original timber and wax maquette for the 5-metre-high and 8-metre-wide public work that was commissioned by architects Egglelston, Macdonald and Secomb for the foyer of the State Bank Centre, on the corner of Bourke and Elizabeth Streets, Melbourne. The title translates approximately as ‘Carrying the Landscape’, and references the classical device of the caryatide, or column capital that support a counterbalanced weight. In this case, that weight is the landscape itself. The large-scale work was cast at the Veronese Foundry in Milan and transported in pieces to Melbourne, where it was assembled and installed in September 1985. In 2003 the building was refurbished and the final sculpture donated to the McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park in Langwarrin. The present maquette has been cast posthumously from the original wax. A single bronze maquette (A/P, cast c. 1980) is in the Commonwealth Bank of Australia's collection.
Our thanks to Jane Eckett for the above catalogue entry
Further works by the Artist
Untitled (almost certainly Bird Forms)
Norma Redpath
1956
pen and black ink with gouache, crayon and wash over pencil on paper, 34.70 x 24.00
Price: $3,300
Piccola Citta
Norma Redpath
1976
silver, stone base (No. 5 from an edition of 5 artist’s proofs), 15.00 x 24.00 x 12.00
Sipario Nero (maquette)
Norma Redpath
c. 1985
Dark brown wax (on bronze base), 17.30 x 5.10 x 3.00
Untitled maquette: pierced disc
Norma Redpath
c. 1980 - 2010
pale green wax, 8.00 x 9.20 x 1.60
Untitled maquette: large standing disc
Norma Redpath
1980 - 2010
Brown wax, 13.00 x 13.00 x 1.60
Untitled maquette: fragmented discs
Norma Redpath
c. 1980 - 2010
Brown wax, 10.00 x 10.00 x 3.70
Ecce Locus (maquette for site marker)
Norma Redpath
c. 1985
Clay, black glaze (3), 9.10 x 3.00 x 20.50
Sun Image: First Noon (maquette)
Norma Redpath
c. 1985
Clay, black glaze, 10.20 x 5.00 x 2.50
Flying Colonnade, Captive Sun Span (maquette)
Norma Redpath
c. 1985
Clay with red wax and black glaze, 6.50 x 15.00 x 4.20
Gateway Object
Norma Redpath
1982
brush & black ink with pen & black ink on Arches paper, 76.00 x 57.00
Landscape Figure
Norma Redpath
1981
watercolour & gouache on Fabriano paper, 103.00 x 69.00
Gate of the Black Plumes
Norma Redpath
1985
laminated wood with steel screws, 26.50 x 16.00 x 3.80
Gate of the Suspended Sun
Norma Redpath
1985
laminated wood with steel screws, 17.40 x 15.50 x 5.00
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Since its establishment in 1984, the Charles Nodrum Gallery’s exhibition program embraces a diversity of media and styles - from painting, sculpture & works on paper to graphics and photography; from figurative, geometric, gestural, surrealist & social comment to installation & conceptually based work.