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Norma Redpath
Paesaggio Cariatide, 1980
Catalogue number: 3
Bronze (Edition of 8, cast in 2018)
19.60 x 32.50 x 5.40
Provenance:
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Norma Redpath, Ideas and Images: Theatres of the Mind, unpublished manuscript, 1985, pp. 6, 78-9;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, Roseville East, NSW: Craftsman House, 1995, p. 96, full page illustration 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 illustration p. 14.
Note:
This is the 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.
Exhibition Catalogue
Piccola Città
Norma Redpath
1976
Silver, stone base (No. 5 from an edition of 5 artist’s proofs), 15.00 x 24.00 x 18.00
Sentinel Column
Norma Redpath
1980
Bronze (Number 2 from an edition of 9), 21.00 x 21.00 x 7.50
Paesaggio Cariatide
Norma Redpath
1980
Bronze (Edition of 8, cast in 2018), 19.60 x 32.50 x 5.40
Flying Capital, Sydney Dattilo Rubbo Memorial
Norma Redpath
c. 1970
Bronze (Edition of 4, cast in 2018), 19.00 x 12.70 x 12.70
Head of H.C. Coombs
Norma Redpath
c. 1972
Bronze (Edition of 4, cast in 2018), 8.60 x 4.50 x 6.50
Door to the Unknown, Monolith (maquette with two figures)
Norma Redpath
c.
Bronze, 14.00 x 12.80 x 6.50
Door to the Unknown: Variation 1, Receding Image
Norma Redpath
c. 1982
Bronze, unique cast, 15.00 x 20.70 x 6.60
Door to the Unknown: Variation 2, Proceeding Image
Norma Redpath
c. 1982
Bronze, unique cast, 15.00 x 20.70 x 6.60
Door to the Unknown: Variation 3
Norma Redpath
c. 1982
Bronze, unique cast, 15.00 x 20.70 x 6.60
Landscape (maquette)
Norma Redpath
c. 1985 - 1995
Bronze (Edition of 2), 12.70 x 11.50 x 4.60
SOLD
Sculpture Column
Norma Redpath
c. 1968 - 1969
wax with black & gold paint on metal road with perspex 'ceiling' and wooden base, 33.50 x 18.00 x 15.00
Cloud Landscape: sculpture installation for foyer ICI Building (model, 1:20)
Norma Redpath
1989
Bronze, paper, pen and ink, wood, Perspex and aluminium, 40.00 x 80.00 x 11.00
Door and Column
Norma Redpath
c. 1980 - 1982
Laminated wood with red enamel paint, 135.50 x 33.00 x 23.00
Gate of the Suspended Sun
Norma Redpath
1985
laminated wood with steel screws, 17.40 x 15.50 x 5.00
SOLD
Gate of the Black Plumes
Norma Redpath
1985
laminated wood with steel screws, 26.50 x 16.00 x 3.80
Landscape Figure
Norma Redpath
1981
watercolour & gouache on Fabriano paper, 103.00 x 69.00
Gateway Object
Norma Redpath
1982
brush & black ink with pen & black ink on Arches paper, 76.00 x 57.00
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
Sun Image: First Noon (maquette)
Norma Redpath
c. 1985
Clay, black glaze, 10.20 x 5.00 x 2.50
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.