Peter D. Cole

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Metaphysics of a Winter Landscape (1991). Painted and Patinated Bronze, Brass and Copper 47 x 80 x 19cms

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Studio Bench with Pink Form (2002). Painted and Patinated Brass, Bronze and Aluminium 88 x 60 x 28cms

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Rock and Stars (1997). Painted and Patinated Brass, Bronze and Stainless Steel 2045 x 975 x 50cms

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Sculpture/Desk (1990). Painted and Polished Timber and Bronze 211 x 318.5cms

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Rain (2007). Painted and Patinated Brass, Bronze and Aluminium 55 x 130 x 15cms

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Kelly 2 (2000). Pastel on Paper 121 x 133cms

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Red Square (2006). Painted Steel 210 x 210 x 210cms

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Two Trees (2008). Painted and Patinated Brass, Aluminium and Wood 60 x 40 x 15cms

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Images from a Southern Night 2 (1991). Pastel on Paper 80 x 120cms

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Commissioned for City Recital Hall Sydney (1998). Painted Brass and Aluminium 400 x 200 x 50cms

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Journey I, 2 and 3 (2021). Painted and Patinated Brass, Bronze, Wood and Marble 59 x 100 x 8.5cms

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Two moons - Two rooms (1996). Painted and Patinated Brass, Copper and Aluminium 242 x 120 x 10cms

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Remains of a Rock Wall (1991). Painted and Patinated Bronze, Brass and Copper 30 x 38 x 8cms

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Untitled Wind Sculpture (2005). Basalt Steel and Aluminium 300 x 500cms

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Head 111 (2000). Painted and Patinated brass 52 x 31 x 9cms

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Art Wall Detail, Docklands, Melbourne (2001)

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Tree – Portrait (2001). Painted Marine Ply 250 x 150 x 19cms

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Commission, Orlando, Florida, USA (2004). Painted and Patinated Brass, Bronze, Stainless Steel and Aluminium 440 x 190 x 50cms

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Shibuya – Bar 4 (2008). Watercolour Sketch 56 x 76cm

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Shibuya – Bar 4 (2008). Painted and Patinated Wood, Brass and Aluminium 54 x 150 x 19cms

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Elemental Landscape (2009). 64 Pieces, Painted Brass 45 x 800 x 11cms

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North Wind (1990). Painted and Patinated Bronze, Brass and Copper 50 x 106 x 19cm

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Foss (2007). Painted Steel, Aluminium and Brass 80 x 140cms variable

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Studio Landscape (1994). Painted and Patinated Bronze, Brass, Copper and Aluminium 140 x 100 x 27cms

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Fear (2003). Painted and Patinated Brass 25 x 30 x 10cms

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India Song Installation (2012). Lister Gallery, Subiaco WA. Dimensions Variable

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India Song 2 (2011). Painted and Patinated Brass, Aluminium and Marble 102 x 165 x 40cms

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India drawing 1 (2011). Acrylic and Watercolour on Paper 46 x 62cms

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India Song 3, Yellow (2011). Patinated Marble and Brass 30.5 x 26 x 15cms; India Song 3, Red (2011). Patinated Marble and Brass 42 x 32 x 15cms; India Song 3, Pink (2011). Patinated Marble and Brass 19.5 x 19.5 x 14.6cms; India Song 3, Brass (2011). Patinated Marble and Brass 28 x 27 x 15cms

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India Blue (2011). Marble 22 x 18 x 18cms; India Yellow (2011). Marble 40 x 40 x 10cms; India Red (2011). Marble 22 x 25 x 22cms

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Red, Yellow and Black (2003). Painted Steel 240 x 240 x 200cms [approx] 

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Garden – Yoyogi (2009). Painted and Patinated Brass and Aluminium 80 x 150 x 20cms

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Studio (1990). Painted and Patinated Bronze, Brass and Copper 65 x 65 x 29cms

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Landscape – Sound (1997). Painted and Patinated Bronze and Brass 127 x 60 x 30cms

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Piano (2005). Painted and Patinated Brass, Stainless Steel 34 x 20 x 8cms

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Blue Guitar (2016). Marble, Brass and Acrylic 46 x 13 x 10cms

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Studio 2 (2003). Marble, Brass and Bronze 165 x 91 x 15cms

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Yorke Peninsula Building #10 (2005). Pastel on Paper 66 x 87cms

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Sculptor Peter D. Cole was born in Gawler, South Australia and trained at the South Australian School of Art between 1965 and 1968. Since the 1980’s Cole has been based in the Kyneton District of Victoria, where he has established himself as one of Australia’s senior and most reno wned contemporary sculptors, drawing on the landscape as a source of inspiration and recent research trips to Japan and India have added to his rich source material.

As a public artist, Cole has made a significant contribution to the urban landscape and public spaces of Australia receiving the Australian National Trust Heritage Award and the Australian Institute of Landscape Architecture Award of Merit for Foundation Park, a permanent work at The Rocks, Sydney. He is highly sought for commissions and his work is prominent in many public and corporate collections throughout Australia, including Parliament House, Canberra, the National Gallery of Australia, and Brisbane International Airport and recently Windsor Railway Station precinct. He was awarded the H.P. Gill medal for top student and the Contemporary arts Society award for drawing in 1968 and has exhibited regularly since 1969 with exhibitions in Australia and America, with notably a solo exhibition in 1995 at The Carpenter Centre, Harvard University USA.

Cole lectured in sculpture between 1975 and 2001 and has worked continuously on his practice encompassing sculpture, painting, drawing, printmaking, design and architecture. His work is represented in many collections both private and public throughout Australia, America, Japan and Europe.

Solo Exhibitions

  • 2021, 

  • The Landscape of Memory’, Australian Galleries, Online exhibition

  • 2017, 

  • ‘A Modern Narrative’, Australian Galleries, Sydney

  • 2016, 

  • ‘PLACE AND SPACE’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne

  • 2013, 

  • Australian Galleries, Roylston Street, Sydney

  • 2012, 

  • Lister Gallery, Perth

  • 2011, 

  • ‘New Sculptures’, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne

  • 2009, 

  • ‘Elements + Memories’, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne

  • 2007, 

  • ‘New works’, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne

  • 2006, 

  • ‘New works’, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne

  • 2006, 

  • ‘New works’, Australian Galleries Painting & Sculpture, Sydney

  • 2004, 

  • ‘Primary Structure’, Calder Lister Gallery, Perth

  • 2003, 

  • ‘New Sculptures’, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne

  • 2002, 

  • Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Melbourne

  • 2002, 

  • Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Sydney

  • 2001, 

  • ‘From Form’, Australian Galleries Painting & Sculpture, Sydney

  • 2001, 

  • Calder Lister Gallery, Perth

  • 2000, 

  • ‘Recent Pastel Drawings and Studies’, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Melbourne

  • 1998, 

  • Australian Galleries, Melbourne

  • 1998, 

  • ‘Recent Works on Paper and Sculpture’, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Sydney

  • 1997, 

  • Steele Gallery, New York, USA

  • 1995, 

  • Carpenter Centre for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA

  • 1994, 

  • Australian Galleries, Sydney

  • 1990, 

  • William Mora Gallery, Melbourne

  • 1986, 

  • Realities Gallery, Melbourne

  • 1984-91, 

  • Annual exhibitions at Macquarie Galleries, Sydney

  • 1983, 

  • United Artists Gallery, Melbourne

  • 1980, 

  • Ewing and George Paton Galleries, Melbourne

  • 1970, 

  • Pinacotheca, Melbourne

Group Exhibitions

  • 2023, 

  • Peter D Cole, Helen Cole and Oliver Cole, Australian Galleries, Melbourne

  • 2023, 

  • ‘Vitrine’ (Melbourne Design Week), 43 Derby St. Collingwood, VIC

  • 2022, 

  • ‘Material Culture’ (Melbourne Design Week), At The Above, Fitzroy, VIC

  • 2020, 

  • ‘Navigating the line’ (online exhibition), Australian Galleries

  • 2020, 

  • ‘Now & Then’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne

  • 2019, 

  • ‘Australian Galleries: The Purves Family Business. The First Four Decades’, Book Launch and Group Exhibition, Australian Galleries, Melbourne

  • 2019, 

  • ‘papermade’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne

  • 2017, 

  • ‘Painting, sculpture and works on paper – Group exhibition’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne

  • 2017, 

  • ‘Stock show – Group Exhibition’, Australian Galleries-Stock Rooms, Melbourne

  • 2017, 

  • ‘Painting, sculpture and works on paper – Group exhibition’, Australian Galleries, Sydney

  • 2017, 

  • ‘Sculpture: medium and small scale – Mixed Sculptors’, Australian Galleries, Sydney

  • 2016, 

  • ‘Impressions’, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne

  • 2014, 

  • ‘one of each’, Australian Galleries, Derby Street, Melbourne

  • 2014, 

  • ‘Australia Day 2014 Celebratory Exhibition’, Australian Galleries, Derby Street, Melbourne

  • 2014, 

  • ‘Australia Day 2014 Celebratory Exhibition’, Australian Galleries, Roylston Street, Sydney

  • 2011, 

  • ‘large exhibition of small works’, Australian Galleries, Roylston Street, Sydney

  • 2010, 

  • ‘Summer stock show’, Australian Galleries, Smith Street, Melbourne

  • 2010, 

  • ‘Artists’ Prints made with Integrity I’, Australian Galleries, Smith Street, Melbourne

  • 2007, 

  • McClelland Sculpture Survey and Award, McClelland Gallery & Sculpture Park, Langwarrin VIC

  • 2007, 

  • ‘Small Pleasures’, Australian Galleries Painting & Sculpture, Melbourne

  • 2006, 

  • ‘The Christmas Collector’s Edition’, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne

  • 2006, 

  • ‘Summery’, Australian Galleries Painting & Sculpture, Sydney

  • 2006, 

  • ‘Stock Show’, Australian Galleries Painting & Sculpture, Melbourne

  • 2006, 

  • ‘Summer Stock Show’, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Melbourne

  • 2006, 

  • ‘Impressions’, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne

  • 2006, 

  • ‘50th Anniversary Exhibition’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne

  • 2005, 

  • ‘End of Year Group Exhibition’, Australian Galleries Painting & Sculpture, Sydney

  • 2003, 

  • ‘National Sculpture Prize and Exhibition’, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

  • 2003, 

  • ‘Site Unseen’, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo VIC

  • 2003, 

  • McClelland Sculpture Survey and Award, McClelland Gallery & Sculpture Park, Langwarrin VIC

  • 2003, 

  • ‘This was the future: Australian Sculpture of the 1950s, 60s, 70s + Today’, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne

  • 2002, 

  • Tokyo Designers Block Idee, Tokyo, Japan

  • 2001, 

  • ‘Nocturne’, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington VIC

  • 1999, 

  • Calder Lister Gallery, Perth

  • 1999, 

  • ‘Volume and Form’, Singapore

  • 1992, 

  • Powell Street Galleries, Melbourne

  • 1992, 

  • Chicago International Art Fair, Chicago, USA

  • 1992, 

  • Editions Gallery, Melbourne

  • 1991, 

  • William Mora Gallery, Melbourne

  • 1990, 

  • Australian Sculpture Triennial, Melbourne

  • 1988, 

  • Mildura Sculpture Triennial, Mildura VIC

  • 1987, 

  • The Lewers Bequest and Penrith Regional Art Gallery, Penrith NSW

  • 1985, 

  • Mildura Sculpture Triennial, Mildura VIC

  • 1984, 

  • Australian Sculpture Triennial, Melbourne

  • 1981, 

  • Australian Sculpture Triennial, Melbourne

  • 1970, 

  • Mildura Sculpture Triennial, Mildura VIC

  • 1967-68, 

  • Contemporary Arts Society, Adelaide

Public Commissions

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  • Arts Victoria; Shepparton lake sculpture, Shepparton VIC

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  • Bank of Melbourne; in consultation with Bates Smart McCutcheon; large free standing sculptural screen, Melbourne

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  • Brisbane International Airport; in consultation with Bligh Voller architects and Jean Battersby Art Consultants; large suspended sculptures and series of wall installations, Brisbane

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  • Caulfield City Council; suspended sculpture, Melbourne

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  • Chadstone Shopping Centre, Melbourne

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  • Channel 7 ‘Pixillated Landscape’, large wall installation mixed media and light, Melbourne

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  • Chifley Tower (commissioned by owners MID); permanently located sculpture in Bent Street lobby, Sydney

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  • City of Stonnington, ‘That’s life’, Windsor Railway Station precinct, Melbourne

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  • Darling Harbour; large scale bronze sculpture, Sydney

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  • Foundation Park (in consultation with Sydney Cove Authority); design of park and construction of elements for Foundation Park, Sydney

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  • Hamilton Regional Gallery; permanently located bronze and stone sculpture, Hamilton, VIC

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  • John Gorton Building, Department for the Environment, Canberra

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  • McClelland Gallery & Sculpture Park; tapestry, Langwarrin VIC

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  • Opera Quays Sydney (in consultation with Andrew Andersons of Peddle Thorpe); two large suspended sculptures adjacent to collonade to Opera House, part of the Sydney Cove Sculpture walk, Sydney

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  • Queensland Police Headquarters (in consultation with Bligh Voller architects); large suspended sculpture, Brisbane

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  • Thredbo Alpine Village; large painted steel outdoor sculpture, Thredbo NSW

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  • World Expo 1998 (BHP and Transfield Corporation); relocated to south bank, Brisbane, 200 metre sculptural walk painted steel, Brisbane

Awards

  • 1996, 

  • Australian National Trust Heritage Award for Foundation Park, Sydney

  • 1995, 

  • Australian Institute of Landscape Architecture, Award of Merit for Foundation Park, Sydney

  • 1968, 

  • H.P. Gill Medal, South Australian School of Art, Adelaide Contemporary Art Society Drawing Prize, Adelaide

Collections

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  • Art Bank, Sydney

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  • ANZ Bank

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  • Australian National Gallery, Canberra

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  • Bankers Trust

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  • Caulfield City Council, Melbourne

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  • Clayton Utz, Sydney, Melbourne

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  • Crown Casino, Melbourne

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  • Deakin University, Melbourne

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  • Ernst and Young, Melbourne

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  • Freshwater Place, Melbourne

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  • Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen VIC

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  • McClelland Gallery, Langwarrin VIC

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  • Mildura Regional Gallery, Mildura VIC

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  • Monash University, Melbourne

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  • Newcastle Regional Art Gallery, Newcastle NSW

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  • Parliament House, Canberra

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  • Phillip Morris Corp. Melbourne

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  • Potter Warburg, Melbourne

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  • Powercorp Melbourne

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  • Royal Pines, Gold Coast

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  • Westpac Banking Corporation

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  • Wollongong Regional Art Gallery, Wollongong NSW

Bibliography

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  • Art and Australia, vol. 8 no 1, June 1970

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  • Australia Sculpture Now, Australian Sculpture Triennial, Melbourne, 1984

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  • Australian Sculpture Triennial, Melbourne, 1981

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  • Belle Magazine, 2000-01

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  • Cole, Peter D.; Sculpture and Works on Paper 1992-1994, Australian Galleries, 1994

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  • Craft Art, vol. 5, Autumn issue, 1986

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  • Crafti, Stephen; Request.Response.Reaction: The designers of Australia and New Zealand, The Images Publishing Group, 2002

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  • Drury, Neville; New Art 11, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1987

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  • Drury, Neville; New Sculpture, G+B Arts International LTD, distributed by Craftsman House, Sydney, 1994

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  • Interior Design, issue 5, 1986

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  • Interior Design, issue 13, 1986

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  • National Sculpture Prize and Exhibition, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2003

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  • On Site Sculpture, Australian Sculpture Triennial, Melbourne, 1990

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  • Sculpture, Sept issue 1999 (USA Art publication)

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  • Sturgeon, Graeme; Sculpture, The Story of the Mildura Sculpture Triennial 1961-1982, Mildura City Council, Mildura,1985

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  • Sunday, Channel 9, 3 September 1996

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  • Sydney Morning Herald, 10 May 1991

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  • The Age, Architecture column, 13 May 1980

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  • The Age, Entertainment Guide, 18 September 1990

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  • The Age, Good Weekend magazine, 12 June 1993

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  • World Expo 88 Collection, Brisbane, 1987