McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park

Jabaroo by Inge King

Kinetic Art by Phil Price

McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery is a sculpture park and gallery for modern art opened in 1971 in Langwarrin on the Mornington Peninsula near Melbourne in Victoria, Australia .

Gallery and sculpture park

The McClelland , in the first decades under the name McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park , was made available by Annie May (Nan) McClelland († 1961) in honor of her brother Harry McClelland (1884–1951) with £ 100,000 and a donation of 40 Hectares of bushland near Frankston. Harry McClelland was an artist and philanthropist who played a significant role in the development of the art world in Melbourne and Victoria. Harry McClelland had built an artist's estate on his property, called the Barn , which was to be the starting point for the planned Harry McClelland Art Gallery and Cultural Hall . Funding provided u. a. the Elisabeth Murdoch Sculpture Foundation . The exhibition building was completed in 1971 by the architects Munro & Sargent . Art bequests from the two McClellands went into the collection.

The museum has three exhibition rooms for Australian sculpture, graphics and photography in the new building. Since 2007, the outdoor sculpture park has been doubled from eight to 16 hectares. There are over 100 sculptures in this sculpture park.

For permanent collection includes works by the artist group the Center Five of Inge King , Norma Redpath , Clifford load and Lenton Parr at which the McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park has a special relationship.

Director has been John Cummingham since 2015. The sculpture park now has over 130,000 visitors annually.

Since 2003, the gallery has hosted a biennial sculpture symposium and awards the McClelland Sculpture Survey Award, which is endowed with $ 100,000 . The 2010 award winner was Louise Paramor for her work Top Shelf , the 2012 award winner was Greg Johns for his sculpture At the center (There is Nothing) , and Matthew Harding in 2014 for his work Void .

Permanent exhibition

• Bruce Armstrong : City (1987)
• George Baldessin : Untitled (1966/67)
• Geoffrey Bartlett : The rise of the flowering plants (1984)
• Ewan Coates (1965, Melbourne): Three pillars of instant gratification (2007)
• Peter Corlett (1944): Tarax Play Sculpture (1969), La Stupenda (2003)
• Vincas Jomantas (1922-2001): Landing object II (1992)
• John Kelly (1965, Bristol ): Maquette for a public monument (2003), Untitled (2006)
• Inge King (1918, Berlin): Flight Arrested (1964), Jabaroo (1984), Island Sculpture (1991)
• Clifford Last (1918-1991): Metamorphosis II (1987)
• Michael Le Grand : Schism (2006)
• Clement Meadmore (1929-2005, Melbourne): Paraphernalia (1999)
• Robert Owen : Double Vision No. 2 (2003)
• Adrian Page : Torus - Hidden and Revealed (2003)
• Lenton Parr (1924-2003, Melbourne): Custom House Screen
• Phil Price (1965, Nelson, New Zealand): Ratytus (2005)
• Anthony Pryor (1951–1991, Melbourne): Sea Legend (1991–2000)
• Norma Redpath (1928–2013, Melbourne): Untitled (1964), Desert Arch (1968), Landscape Caryatid (1980/85)
• Ron Robertson-Swann (1941, Sydney): Turn (1988), Lunar chariot (2003)
• Lisa Roet (1967, Melbourne): White Ape (2005)
• Peter Schipperheyn (1955, Melbourne): Thus Spake Zarathustra (2006)
• Ken Unsworth (1931, Melbourne): Annulus of stones (2007)
• David Wilson (1947, London): Black Vessel (1977), Earth (1978), Dry pool (1979), Shore column (1981), Stump stall (1985) and Around the mirror (1987)

photos

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  Untitled (2006) by John Kelly

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  Tarax Play Sculpture (1969) by Peter Corlett

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  Torus - Hidden and revealed (2003) by Adrian Page

Web links

Commons : McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park website

Individual evidence

1. ^ McClelland Gallery. In: Alan McCulloch: Encyclopedia of Australian Art. Hutchinson, Richmond Vic. 1977, ISBN 0-09-081420-7 , p. 342.
2. ^ McClelland Gallery history. McClelland Sculpture Park + Gallery, accessed March 28, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Visitor map ( Memento of the original from March 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Map and exhibits. 
4. ^ Katrina Grant: John Cunningham appointed as new Director of McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery. In: Melbourne Art Network. April 29, 2015, accessed March 28, 2016 . 

Coordinates: 38 ° 8 ′ 45.8 ″  S , 145 ° 10 ′ 34.7 ″  O