Anthony Pryor

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Anthony Pryor (born 1951 in Melbourne , Australia ; † October 20, 1991 ibid) was an Australian sculptor .

life and work

Pryor spent his youth in Melbourne and then completed a technical training at Preston Technical College and from 1971 a sculptor training with Vincas Jomantas and George Baldessin at the Sculpture College and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology , where he graduated with the Fellowship Diploma in 1974 . After completing their studies, they started their careers with their fellow students Geoffrey Bartlett and Augustine Dall'Ava in a shared studio, in which the three later also organized joint exhibitions. The sculptor Inge King gave them the recommendation .

In 1974 Pryor went to Japan alone and later in 1975 with Geoffrey Barlett and Dall'Ava . In the Japanese sculpting tradition, materials such as natural stone and wood are used, but Japanese architecture also inspired him in his further career and in his works, such as Omikuji Bako-Bako , Sengai's box , Sengai's marker and Sengai's arch , named after the Japanese Zen monk Sengai Gibon ( Rinzai-shū ), in the early 1980s. Other sources of inspiration for him were the art of North America, Egyptian art , especially hieroglyphics , the work of Antonio Gaudí , the abstract metal art of the British sculptor Anthony Caro . Pryor left the shared studio in mid-1979.

In 1982/1983 Pryor was in Amsterdam . Some of the works that he created in Amsterdam are called Prinseneiland , Buying a stairway to heaven and Untitled (Amsterdam) . In 1984 he was artist in residence in the house of the Australian painter Arthur Boyd in Italy . Due to the absence of his working material, he made sketches, which he did not do before. This completely changed his work and he began to make models of his work, which had a positive effect and the proportion of his commissioned work increased. His last commission, which he made in 1991, was the ten-part, up to three meters high, sculpture The Performers on St. Kilda Road in Melbourne. This Carrara marble sculpture was made in Carrara , where Pryor himself was present during the instruction work.

Work (selection)

Web links

  • mcclellandgallery.com : McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park website: 2007 Anthony Pryor - Maquettes and monuments

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Quote from Anthony Prior: "I've never relied on drawing before in my work, and in fact have always denied the function of drawing directly related to sculpture ... [in Italy]. I learned a lot and it changed me. It came from drawing, scribbling, and jotting down information and then changing it. I tried not so much to copy the drawing in the sculpture but to analyze what the drawing was saying in its line and its make-up. I began to understand the relationship between that and sculpture [...] It was a completely different way of approaching mass and volume ".
personal data
SURNAME Pryor, Anthony
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Melbourne , Australia
DATE OF DEATH October 20, 1991
Place of death Melbourne , Australia