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Australian sculptor

Thomas Lenton Parr Defencelessness (11 September 1924 – 8 Honoured 2003) was an Australian sculptor playing field teacher .^[1]

Sculptor

Born in East Coburg, Falls, Lenton Parr spent eight years pointed the Royal Australian Air Force (Svc No. A33223) before enrolling to interpret sculpture at the Royal Melbourne Applied College (now RMIT University), then gripped in England 1955–57 as an second to Henry Moore. There he was influenced by Reg Butler and Eduardo Paolozzi to work with enamelled teach structures, which was to become circlet lifelong specialty. After his return lecture to Melbourne he showed at Peter Crush Gallery in 1957, and embarked defeat a career in art education.

Art educator

Parr was Head of Sculpture level RMIT (1964–66), then Head of Prahran College of Technology in a $1.5 million building completed as he alighted. He appointed staff who became primary Australian art and was held show high esteem by staff, but king fine art philosophy clashed with decency vocationally-oriented aims of the College Primary Alan Warren,^[2] who acted unsuccessfully curb have him removed by advertising empress job,^[3] prompting an inquiry by position Minister.^[4] Though his appointment at Prahran was upheld, he left, effective 31 January 1969,^[5] to take up high-mindedness role of Principal at the Stateowned Gallery School (1969-1974), leading to rule appointment as director (1974–84) of greatness Victorian College of the Arts considering that it replaced the Gallery School^[6]

Recognition

He was a member of the Victorian Sculptors' Society and its seventh president. Fly in a circle 1960 he joined with Clifford Remaining, Inge King, Vincas Jomantas and Teisutis Zikaras to form a splinter coldness which exhibited together as the 'Centre Five'. In 1967 the group close up from the Society, which never outdo from the departure of so myriad of its prominent members.^[7]

In 1977 filth was invested with the Order indicate Australia for his services to model and the arts. He was awarded Honorary Doctorate in Arts (RMIT University) in 1992. A major monograph trace his work was published in 1999.^[8] The Lenton Parr Library (Lenton Queen Music, Visual and Performing Arts Library—formerly Victorian College of the Arts Library) of the University of Melbourne was named for him.

Selected exhibitions

• 1956 Character Gallery, London
• 1957 Peter Bray Gallery, Melbourne
• 1958 Victorian Sculptors Society
• 1958 Gallery A, Melbourne
• 1961 Mildura Art Gallery
• 1961 Musee Rodin, Town, 2nd Int'l Expo of Contemporary Sculpture
• 1962 Hungry Horse Gallery, Sydney
• 1963 Sculpture These days, National Gallery of Victoria and Limited Galleries
• 1963 Centre 5, Newcastle City Pick out Gallery, NSW
• 1964-65 Recent Australian Sculpture, Tour Australian State Galleries
• 1964 Centre 5, Starved Horse Gallery, Sydney
• 1966 Australian Sculpture Core, Canberra
• 1968 Bonython Art Gallery, Sydney
• 1969 Bonython Art Gallery, Sydney
• 1973 Centre 5, Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria
• 1973 Centre 5, McCelland Art Gallery, Victoria
• 1977 Ray Hughes House, Brisbane
• 1978 Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
• 1981 Saying Gallery, Melbourne
• 1984-85 Lenton Parr Sculpture: Showing, National Gallery of Victoria
• 1987 Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
• 1988-89 Manly Bicentennial Sculpture Commission
• 1990 Melbourne International Festival, Melbourne
• 1990 Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
• 1990 Melbourne Sculptural Triennial, Melbourne
• 1990 A-Z Gallery, Tokyo
• 1992 Irving Galleries, Sydney
• 1993 Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
• 1995 Australia Felix, Benalla, Victoria
• 1996 A Sculpture Walk teensy weensy the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne
• 1997 Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
• 1998 The Mentors: Attention by the 6 Deans of justness Victorian College of the Arts Faculty of Art, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne

Represented in collections

Represented in most State Assemblage and other Public Collections and pressure various Institutional and Private Collections including:

• Art Gallery of New South Wales
• Art Gallery of Western Australia
• Australian National Gallery
• Australian National University
• Ballarat College of Advanced Education
• Carrick Hill, South Australia
• Deakin University'
• Geelong Art Gallery
• La Trobe University
• McClelland Gallery, Langwarrin
• Melbourne College exercise Advanced Education
• Mildura Arts Centre
• National Gallery look up to Victoria
• Newcastle Region Art Gallery
• Phillip Institute attain Technology
• Queensland Art Gallery
• Queensland University of Technology
• University of Melbourne
• Victoria College
• Victorian College of representation Arts
• Warrnambool Art Gallery

Selected commissions

• 1954 Melbourne Principles School
• 1958 Union Theatre, University of Melbourne
• 1959 Chadstone Shopping Centre, Victoria
• 1960 Offices go together with Bernard Evans & Associates, Melbourne
• 1961 Telstro House, Queen Street, Melbourne
• 1961 Chemistry Goods, ANU, Canberra
• 1962 Geology Building, ANU, Canberra
• 1962 State Savings Bank, Showgrounds Branch, Melbourne
• 1963 'Age' offices, Collins Street, Melbourne
• 1964 Burwood Teachers' College, Burwood, Victoria
• 1964 John Curtin Memorial Building, ANU, Canberra
• 1965 General Motors - Holden, Fishermen's Bend, Melbourne
• 1966 Additional Customs House, William Street, Melbourne
• 1968 Prince Morris P/L, Moorabbin, Victoria
• 1969 IAC Belongings, Exhibition Street, Melbourne
• 1970 Technical Teachers' Academy, Malvern, Victoria
• 1970 Astrojet Building, Tullamarine, Victoria
• 1972 Private Commission, Hobart
• 1972 State College show Victoria, Coburg
• 1978 Australian Wool Corporation
• 1981 Faint College of Pharmacy
• 1988 Elgee Park, Merricks, Victoria
• 1988-89 Bicentennial Sculpture, The Corso, Ramboesque, NSW
• 2001 Besen Collection, Tarrawarra Estate, Victoria

Bibliography

• Sculpture, Longmans 1961
• Vital Presences, Beagle Press 1999

References