Stephen Walker (sculptor)

Stephen Walker (1927 – 16 June 2014) was an Australian sculptor who was made a member of the Order of Australia in 1985.

[5] He left school at age 13[4] but attended Melbourne Teachers' College from 1945 to 1947[3] before moving to Hobart in 1948.

[6] In the 1950s he repeatedly traveled to Europe, studying sculpting under Henry Moore[4] from 1954 to 1956 and visiting Rome, Florence and Prague through scholarships.

[6] Walker mainly created bronze sculptures, including the Tank Stream Fountain (1981) in Herald Square near Circular Quay, Sydney and a memorial for Antarctic explorer Louis Bernacchi at Hobart's Victoria Dock.

[7] Much of his work was inspired by nature and by Antarctica,[6] a continent he visited twice in the 1980s via the Australian Antarctic Division's Humanities Program.