Kevin Norton b. 1952

  • Artist (Sculptor)
Contemporary sculptor Kevin Norton was born in England and moved to Sydney in 1983. In 2006 he became Head of the sculpture department at the Wollongong College of Art.
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Sculptor, works with stainless-steel. Born in England in 1952, Kevin Norton moved to Sydney, NSW, in 1983. Norton has taught at the University of Sydney, Sculpture Society in Sydney, Cumbria College of Art in England, Canberra School of Art, Auckland University in New Zealand as well as other arts institutions in New Zealand. In 1986 Norton began teaching sculpture and drawing at the Wollongong College of Art, where in 2006 he became head of the sculpture department.
Norton has exhibited widely in Australia and New Zealand. He has completed many private commissions and received several awards, including Young Contemporaries Sculpture Prize, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (1977), Barnett Newman Scholarship (1978), Hansells Sculpture Award, New Zealand (1982) and artist-in-residence, New Zealand Sculpture Project (1982).
Norton’s work is represented in numerous collections, including Artbank, the National Gallery of New Zealand, Rotorua City Gallery, New Zealand, National Library of New Zealand, Macquarie University, Chas Property Estates, Merke, Sharp & Dome, as well as private collections in Australia, Indonesia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States.

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Stella Downer
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011

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  • Stella Downer Fine Art, Sydney, NSW (associate of)
  • Wollongong College of Art (associate of)
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  • Private collections, United Kingdom, United States, New Zealand, Australia and Indonesia (collected in)
  • Merke, Sharp & Dome (collected in)
  • Chase Property Estates, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • National Library of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand (collected in)
  • Rotorua City Art Gallery, New Zealand (collected in)
  • National Gallery of New Zealand, New Zealand (collected in)
  • Artbank, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
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  • Young Contemporaries Sculpture Prize, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK (received)
  • Barnett Newman Scholarship, Award to study at New York Studio School (received)
  • Sculpture co-ordinator for Arts Council Artscribe 'Style in the 70's' Exhibition (large number of steel sculptures made in the UK) (received)
  • 1982 Hansells Sculpture Award, New Zealand (received)
  • Artist in residence, New Zealand Sculpture Project (received)
  • Guest at Australian Sculpture Symposium, Canberra, ACT (received)
  • 1985 Participating artist at Triangle Artists Workshop, New York, USA (received)
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