Peter Corlett
Peter Corlett OAM (born 1944) is an Australian sculptor, known for his full-figure sculptures cast in bronze, especially his memorial works. Corlett studied sculpture at RMIT University, Melbourne, from 1961 to 1964. In 1975, he was awarded a special projects grant from the Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council.
Peter Corlett
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- Name
- Peter Corlett
- Born
- 1944
- Birthplace
- Melbourne, Australia
- Field
- sculpture
- Training
- RMIT University, Melbourne
- Nationality
- Australia.
- Occupation
- sculptor.
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Peter Corlett OAM (born 1944) is an Australian sculptor, known for his full-figure sculptures cast in bronze, especially his memorial works. Corlett studied sculpture at RMIT University, Melbourne, from 1961 to 1964. In 1975, he was awarded a special projects grant from the Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council.
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Peter Corlett (born 1944) is an Australian sculptor. The sculptor was born in Melbourne. Works by Peter Corlett are held at National Gallery of Victoria.
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Biography
Between 1977 and 1980, he was artist in residence at Exeter University and Exeter College of Art in the United Kingdom.
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Peter Corlett • Born — 1944 • Birthplace — Melbourne, Australia • Field — sculpture • Training — RMIT University, Melbourne • Website — www.petercorlett.com
Other works
Other works
Corlett has also created several sculptures of famous people associated with his native Melbourne, such as John Farnham, Kylie Minogue and Dame Nellie Melba. Several of these can be seen at Waterfront City in the Melbourne Docklands. He also produced a bronze sculpture of a Kelpie for the Victorian town of Casterton. He created the sculptures of former Victorian premiers at Treasury Gardens and has been commissioned to sculpt the controversial statue of Daniel Andrews. • Illustration — John Farnham • Illustration — Kylie Minogue • Illustration — Dame Nellie Melba • Illustration — Graham Kennedy • Illustration — Edward "Weary" Dunlop, Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne • Illustration — "Weary" Dunlop, 2nd of two, Australian War Memorial, Canberra • Illustration — Man in the mud at the Australian War Memorial • Illustration — Ronald Campbell Gunn, City Park, Launceston, Tasmania • Illustration — John Monash, Clayton Campus, Monash University
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Works and production
The following works and productions are recorded by name or by count. Institutional cataloguing adds that peter Corlett is recorded with the occupation sculptor. The same evidence establishes that peter Corlett is recorded as a citizen of Australia. It is also recorded that peter Corlett is recorded with the gender male. Born in Melbourne.
Memorial works
In 1987, Corlett won a competition to create a memorial "to commemorate the courage and compassion" of John Simpson Kirkpatrick, a stretcher bearer during the Gallipoli Campaign in World War I. The result was a full size bronze sculpture, Simpson and his donkey, 1915, that now stands outside the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. Cobbers is a full-size bronze sculpture created in 1998 for the Australian Memorial Park, near Fromelles in northern France. It depicts Sergeant Simon Fraser, a stretcher bearer with the 57th Battalion, rescuing a wounded compatriot from no man's land after the Battle of Fromelles (1916). The title comes from a letter that Fraser, a farmer from Byaduk, Victoria, wrote a few days after the battle and that was widely quoted in Australia's official history of World War I. In it, Fraser describes how one wounded soldier shouted out "Don't forget me, cobber." as he was helping another: Fraser went to get more stretcher bearers and both wounded soldiers were rescued. A replica of the sculpture is in the Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne. Corlett's other memorial works include: • The Bullecourt Digger • Memorial to the Australian Light Horse • Man in the mud • Sir Edward "Weary" Dunlop • They also served, (Two WRANS 1941–1985) • Edward 'Ted' Kenna VC
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q7173387: Peter Corlett
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- 1.Australian War Memorial. Artist Profiles: Peter Corlett, 1944–.
- 2.Bean, Charles. The Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918. Angus and Robertson. III. 441. 1929.
- 3.Australian Department of Veteran's Affairs. Don't forget me cobber – Sergeant Simon Fraser. Australians on the Western Front 1914–1918.
- 4.McMullin, Ross. After 92 years, cobbers stand tall at the Shrine. The Age. 16 July 2008.
- 5.Private Edward Kenna V.C. | Monument Australia.
- 6.Geraets, Nell. Gardens statue to honour Andrews not set in stone . or bronze . The Age. 2023-02-17.
- 7.Former Victorian Premier Dan Andrews to be honoured with bronze sculpture. 9News. 2024-09-27.
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