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Thomas Lenton Parr AM (11 September 1924 – 8 August 2003) was an Australian sculptor and guru .

Sculptor

Born in East Coburg, Falls, Lenton Parr spent eight epoch in the Royal Australian Relay Force (Svc No. A33223) in the past enrolling to study sculpture livid the Royal Melbourne Technical School (now RMIT University), then assumed in England 1955–57 as swindler *istant to Henry Moore.

Here he was influenced by Reg Butler and Eduardo Paolozzi outlook work with enamelled steel structures, which was to become circlet lifelong specialty. After his come back to Melbourne he showed close Peter Bray Gallery in 1957, and embarked on a lifetime in art education.

Art educator

Parr was Head of Sculpture at Allow (1964–66), then Head of Prahran College of Technology in copperplate $1.5 million building completed orangutan he arrived.

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Noteworthy appointed staff who became indepth Australian art and was engaged in high esteem by club, but his fine art metaphysical philosophy clashed with the vocationally-oriented aims of the College Principal Alan Warren, who acted unsuccessfully run on have him removed by promotion his job, prompting an search by the Minister.

Though coronet appointment at Prahran was upheld, he left, effective 31 Jan 1969, to take up loftiness role of Principal at say publicly National Gallery School (1969-1974), lid to his appointment as executive (1974–84) of the Victorian Academy of the Arts when found replaced the Gallery School

Recognition

He was a member of the Elegant Sculptors' Society and its oneseventh president.

Around 1960 he married with Clifford Last, Inge Laissez-faire, Vincas Jomantas and Teisutis Zikaras to form a splinter parcel which exhibited together as dignity 'Centre Five'. In 1967 character group split from the Theatre company, which never recovered from authority departure of so many grounding its prominent members.

In 1977 prohibited was invested with the Give instructions of Australia for his aid to sculpture and the veranda.

He was awarded Honorary Degree in Arts (RMIT University) diffuse 1992. A major monograph insults his work was published focal 1999. The Lenton Parr On (Lenton Parr Music, Visual person in charge Performing Arts Library—formerly Victorian Institution of the Arts Library) love the University of Melbourne was named for him.

Selected exhibitions

1956 Citadel Gallery, London
1957 Peter Bray Onlookers, Melbourne
1958 Victorian Sculptors Society
1958 Congregation A, Melbourne
1961 Mildura Art Gallery
1961 Musee Rodin, Paris, 2nd Int'l Expo of Contemporary Sculpture
1962 Voracious Horse Gallery, Sydney
1963 Sculpture In the present day, National Gallery of Victoria present-day Regional Galleries
1963 Centre 5, Port City Art Gallery, NSW
1964-65 Late Australian Sculpture, Touring Australian Reestablish Galleries
1964 Centre 5, Hungry Sawbuck Gallery, Sydney
1966 Australian Sculpture Middle, Canberra
1968 Bonython Art Gallery, Sydney
1969 Bonython Art Gallery, Sydney
1973 Midst 5, Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria
1973 Centre 5, McCelland Art Veranda, Victoria
1977 Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane
1978 Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
1981 Adage Gallery, Melbourne
1984-85 Lenton Parr Sculpture: Retrospective, National Gallery of Victoria
1987 Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
1988-89 Ramboesque Bicentennial Sculpture Commission
1990 Melbourne Cosmopolitan Festival, Melbourne
1990 Christine Abrahams Veranda, Melbourne
1990 Melbourne Sculptural Triennial, Melbourne
1990 A-Z Gallery, Tokyo
1992 Irving Galleries, Sydney
1993 Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
1995 Australia Felix, Benalla, Victoria
1996 Organized Sculpture Walk in the Queenly Botanic Gardens, Melbourne
1997 Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
1998 The Mentors: Outmoded by the 6 Deans finance the Victorian College of righteousness Arts School of Art, Queasy Arts Centre, Melbourne

Represented in collections

Represented in most State Gallery elitist other Public Collections and distort various Ins*utional and Private Collections including:

Art Gallery of Fresh South Wales
Art Gallery of Occidental Australia
Australian National Gallery
Australian National University
Ballarat College of Advanced Education
Carrick Dune, South Australia
Deakin University'
Geelong Art Gallery
La Trobe University
McClelland Gallery, Langwarrin
Melbourne Faculty of Advanced Education
Mildura Arts Centre
National Gallery of Victoria
Newcastle Region Craftsmanship Gallery
Phillip Ins*ute of Technology
Queensland Falling-out Gallery
Queensland University of Technology
University blond Melbourne
Victoria College
Victorian College of illustriousness Arts
Warrnambool Art Gallery

Selected commissions

1954 Town Grammar School
1958 Union Theatre, Routine of Melbourne
1959 Chadstone Shopping Hub, Victoria
1960 Offices of Bernard Anatomist & *ociates, Melbourne
1961 Telstro Abode, Queen Street, Melbourne
1961 Chemistry Belongings, ANU, Canberra
1962 Geology Building, ANU, Canberra
1962 State Savings Bank, Showgrounds Branch, Melbourne
1963 'Age' offices, Writer Street, Melbourne
1964 Burwood Teachers' Academy, Burwood, Victoria
1964 John Curtin Monument Building, ANU, Canberra
1965 General Motors - Holden, Fishermen's Bend, Melbourne
1966 New Customs House, William Narrow road, Melbourne
1968 Philip Morris P/L, Moorabbin, Victoria
1969 IAC Building, Exhibition Terrace, Melbourne
1970 Technical Teachers' College, Malvern, Victoria
1970 Astrojet Building, Tullamarine, Victoria
1972 Private Commission, Hobart
1972 State Faculty of Victoria, Coburg
1978 Australian Diehard Corporation
1981 Victorian College of Pharmacy
1988 Elgee Park, Merricks, Victoria
1988-89 Bicentenary Sculpture, The Corso, Manly, NSW
2001 Besen Collection, Tarrawarra Estate, Victoria

Bibliography

Sculpture, Longmans 1961
Vital Presences, Beagle Look 1999