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Bruce Radke |
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Gourock maquette
Gourock on site
Uranus in Pisces, 2006,
Tripod |
Bruce Radke, born into a dairying family near Tamborine Village in southern Queensland in 1950, spent his formative years living across the top end of this big island – Thursday Island, Gladstone and Darwin. He studied and then worked as a geologist in the Kimberleys, Barkly Tableland, Great Barrier Reef, and the South Pacific. Although there were frequent escapes into painting since his youth, he turned to the study and making of sculpture in the 70’s in Canberra. In the 90’s he moved to establish his studio and home at Eungella, Farringdon district near Braidwood. Annually he teaches lost wax bronze casting at the Sculpture Workshop, ANU, but his own practice broadens into welded steel sculpture. In recent years he has become a regular participant in Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi. Bruce is represented by Maunsell Wickes Gallery, Sydney, and Stephanie Burns Fine Art, Canberra. Bruce worked in the South Pacific with the United Nations Development Program , was Artist-in-residence in Malaysia: at the National Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, and at Sarawak Museum, Kuching , and has lectured in sculpture at the Lasalle-SIA, Singapore . Bruce’s solo exhibitions included the Meridian Gallery, Melbourne, National Library, Canberra National Sculpture Forum, Sculpture in the Garden, at Manar, Braidwood and at the Stephanie Burns Fine Art, Canberra. Bruce exhibited across Australia and overseas at venues ranging from Braidwood to Canberra, Melbourne to Sydney, from Beijing to Kuching, Malaysia.
His works can be found in many collections such as the Sarawak Museum,
Malaysia, the Queen Beatrix Floriade Sculpture Collection Canberra, the
University of Canberra, the Lady Ethel Nock Sculpture Collection, and in
private collections in Australia and overseas.
1995 Song He Tang
Sonata in progress
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