PICCOLA CITTÀ, 1976
NORMA REDPATH
silver on marble base
13.5 cm (height)
signed, dated and numbered at edge: p.d’A. 4/5 015 / Norma Redpath 1976
Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne
Private collection, Victoria, acquired from the above in 1979
Autumn Exhibition, Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne, 5 – 20 April 1979, cat. 156
Norma Redpath: Works from the Studio, 1970s & 1980s, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne, 21 June – 7 July 2018 (another example)
‘In 1972 she was appointed the inaugural H.C. Coombs Creative Arts Fellow at Australian National University. During the Fellowship she completed a commission for ANU’s School of Music (Extended Column, 1972 – 75) and developed a proposal for a major environmental sculpture: Piccola Cità. This ‘small city’ was a reworked version of an earlier 1962 work of the same title, but the individual elements were slightly altered in form and spaced further apart to create a walk-through environment for the university’s forecourt. Prohibitive costs meant the work was never realised, but it did generate two editions of maquettes: one in silver (1976) and another, slightly larger, in bronze (1978).’1
1. Eckett, J., Archetypes and the genius loci: Norma Redpath, 1967 – 2013, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 2018