Ken Unsworth

Born in Melbourne in 1931, Ken Unsworth first came to prominence with his performance art series Five secular settings for sculpture as ritual and burial piece held at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Sydney, in 1975. Reacting against formal abstraction, Unsworth incorporated the human body within highly conceptual sculptural arrangements and performance art pieces. Since the seventies, Unsworth’s artistic practice has traversed media, though he is best known for his performance and installation art and works of sculpture in which he considers human emotion and endurance and the use and control of the forces of gravity.