Norma Redpath

Norma Redpath OBE (1928 – 2013) was born in Melbourne in 1928 and studied art at Swinburne University and sculpture at RMIT. Her early carved timber sculptures of the 1950s echoed the organic forms of Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore, before she began to work with bronze casting. In 1956 Redpath travelled to Italy where she studied at the Brera Academy in Milan and cast her first works in bronze in Rome. In the early 1960s she formed part of Centre Five group who championed modernist sculpture in Australia and its incorporation into architecture and public space. Her sculptures unite classical and modernist elements, informed by an intuitive response to landscape and an interest in architecture. These works become frames for the viewer’s experience by focusing and augmenting the perception of place.