| Weight | 250 kg |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 200 cm × 227 cm × 117 cm |
| Catalogue number | 047 |
| Medium | |
| Editions | 1 of 3, 2 of 3, 3 of 3 |
| Location | |
| Specifications | Transported on flat top truck with crane. Recommended to be transported by JK Fashams, Victoria. |
047: Inge King
Celestial Rings I, 2014, 1/3
$250,000
King’s last monumental sculpture, Celestial Rings I, is an iconic piece designed to adorn a courtyard or an outdoor setting. In this sculpture, King combines simplicity and clarity of form with grace and elegance. A geometric balance is engendered by the ellipses, orbits and rings, whilst the brilliance of the brushed surface, done with an angle grinder, creates an unexpected lightness and floating movement that changes with the weather and the light. Reminiscent of Rings of Saturn 2005, her monumental sculpture at Heide Museum of Modern Art, Celestial Rings I, is an extraordinary work, the culmination of an illustrious career.
SOLD
To : Sculpture on the Farm
Celestial Rings I, 2014, 1/3 Sculptor Bio
Inge King
Inge King (1915 – 2016)
Born in Berlin in 1915, Inge left Germany for London in mid-1939. She studied first at the Royal Academy in London and then at the Glasgow School of Art. In 1947, Inge moved to the Abbey Art Centre, an artists’ community near London, where she met her future husband, Australian painter/print maker, Grahame King.
In early 1951, the Kings arrived in Melbourne where they were to work and live for the remainder of their long lives. While it was challenging for Inge to adjust to Australia’s culturally staid, conservative environment, the house the Kings’ built in bushy Warrandyte and the birth of their children provided a degree of stability after the tumultuous war years. These early works saw Inge at the fore-front of the development of non-figurative sculpture in Australia. She was also a founding member of the renown Centre 5 group of sculptors, whose aim was to “help foster greater public awareness of contemporary sculpture in Australia”.
Over the decades King’s sculptural vision and style evolved and changed. She abandoned the black painted boulder-like structures of the 1960’s for steel ground by hand. Rough steel sheets gradually transformed into precise, sleek, elegant curves culminating in her iconic, monumental wave-like sculpture, Forward Surge, situated in the arts precinct in St Kilda Road. This Melbourne landmark encapsulates her notion that sculpture should be interactive, and she took much pleasure in watching families picnic in its shade and children roller-blade on the curved surfaces.
Flight and movement have always fascinated King, and assemblage (3-dimensional elements projecting out) enabled her to let forms be air-borne, balance shapes or anchor them precariously. Many of King’s large-scale works are found in public spaces and on university campuses around Australia.
Galleries
Every major gallery in Australia owns one or more of her sculptures and she has work in the UK, USA and Germany. King was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in January 1984 and was given the Visual Arts Emeritus Award in recognition of her central role in raising the profile of modern sculpture in Australia.
