Title
Light column
circa 1962
Artist
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Details
- Other Title
- Untitled ('Wire tower' maquette)
- Place where the work was made
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Sydney
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New South Wales
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Australia
- Date
- circa 1962
- Media category
- Sculpture
- Materials used
- wire and steel
- Dimensions
- 22.1 x 6.2 x 6.4 cm
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program by Enid Hawkins in memory of Margel Hinder, 2012
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 299.2012
- Copyright
- © Estate of Margel Hinder
- Artist information
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Margel Hinder
Works in the collection
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About
By the 1950s Margel Hinder had achieved a reputation as one of the most accomplished and committed of Australia's modern sculptors. Raised in the USA, Hinder was familiar with American and European developments in abstraction before her arrival in Sydney in 1934. She moved to the forefront of activity in Sydney in the late 1930s and 1940s, firstly with abstracted figurative sculptures and then with increasingly geometricised forms, marked by her exceptional feeling for three dimensionality and interlocking forms. Like Robert Klippel, Hinder's aim remained an accommodation of organic and geometric elements in her art – elements which can be seen as the twin pivots of mid-20th century sculptural production.
Margel Hinder worked in a variety of materials including wood, metal, plastics, steel, and bronze, and with a range of techniques, although her preference remained for carving. Hinder's practice was consistently experimental, and she was one of the few women artists in Australia who was involved in public commissions on a monumental scale, being responsible for some of the country's most imaginative public works over the 1950s and 60s.
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Places
Where the work was made
Sydney
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Margel Hinder: modern in motion, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 30 Jan 2021–02 May 2021
Margel Hinder: modern in motion, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 30 Oct 2021–06 Feb 2022
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Lesley Harding and Denise Mimmocchi (Editors), Margel Hinder: Modern in motion, Melbourne, 2021, 153 (colour illus.), 183 (colour illus.). cat.no. 41
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