Ron Robertson-Swann

Ronald Charles Robertson-Swann OAM (born 20 February 1941)^[1] is an Australian sculptor, best known for his controversial abstract public sculpture Vault (1980), located in Melbourne. He is also known for the sculpture Leviathan Play (1985), located in Brisbane.^[2][3][4]

Vault has been described as being in the Anthony Caro style,^[5] which he adopted after studying at Saint Martin's School of Art, London, in the 1960s. He studied under Lyndon Dadswell and was an assistant to Henry Moore.^[6] He is Head of Sculpture at the National Art School and is the artistic adviser to the popular annual exhibition Sculpture by the Sea.^[7] He was a founding member of the Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council^[8] and has won numerous awards including the Comalco Invitational Sculpture Award, the Transfeld Prize and the Alice Prize.^[8]

Graeme Sturgeon, the pre-eminent Australian sculpture historian and critic, described Robertson-Swann in 1980 as "the most consistent of the Classic Formalist, that is, the one most concerned to produce a sculpture which, while obviously of its era, transcends considerations of style in search of a timeless sense of rightness."^[6]

• Vault – Melbourne (1980)
• Leviathan Play – Brisbane (1985)

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  Vault – Melbourne (1980)
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  Leviathan Play – Brisbane (1985)

• Charles Nodrum Gallery
• Australian Center for Contemporary Art
• UNSW Art Collection, Sculpture Walk

• Wallis, Geoffrey J., Peril in the Square: The sculpture that challenged a city, Indra Publishing, Melbourne, 2004. ISBN 9781920787004

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