The Estate of the Artist
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Norma Redpath
Head of H.C. Coombs, c. 1972
Bronze (Edition of 4, cast in 2018)
8.60 x 4.50 x 6.50
Herbert Cole ‘Nugget’ Coombs (1906-97) was an important and long-term supporter of Redpath’s. As first Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, 1960-68, he was responsible for approving the acquisition of Redpath’s Immortal Warrior, 1963-64, for the Reserve Bank in Adelaide, and commissioning Sculpture Column, 1968-72, for the foyer of the Reserve Bank in Brisbane. In 1972, when Redpath was appointed the H.C. Coombs Creative Arts Fellow at ANU, Coombs was ANU Chancellor and inaugural chair of the Australian Council for the Arts — both organisations in which he had played an instrumental role in founding. Correspondence and photographs regarding the commissioning of a portrait bust are among the Coombs correspondence file in Redpath papers, SLV, MS 15607, box 13.
Further works by the Artist
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.