Norma Redpath

Norma Redpath OBE (20 November 1928 – 12 January 2013) was a prominent Australian sculptor, who worked in Italy and Melbourne.

[citation needed] In 1952, she was teaching at the Korowa Anglican Girls' School and the Melbourne Technical College, and around this time also set up her first self-funded professional sculpture studio.

[2] In 1968 she returned to Melbourne, establishing her second studio, in the inner-city suburb of Parkville, where she worked on a number of major commissions.

[1] In 1974, while again in Italy, Redpath married Antonio de Altamer, an Italian naval architect.

The worked together to refine the technical procedures of the Fonderia Artistica Battaglia and other foundries in the next decade.

Residencies of varying lengths of time are offered to artists, writers and researchers to develop new work as well as engage with the local workers in related fields.

Bronze Relief (1964), at McClelland Sculpture Park
Treasury Fountain (1969), Treasury Building, Canberra
Extended Column (1975), Canberra School of Music
Landscape Caryatide (1985), at McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park