Lyndon Dadswell b. 1908

  • Artist (Sculptor)
Influential mid 20th century Sydney sculptor and an official war artist during the Second World War. He sculpted 12 panels of the frieze around the interior walls of the Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne.
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Lyndon Dadswell (1908-1986) was one of Australia’s most accomplished sculptors, and the first sculptor to be appointed an official war artist during the Second World War. He studied at the Julian Ashton School from 1923 to 1925 and at the East Sydney Technical College from 1926 to 1929. He was a student of the influential sculptor Rayner Hoff, and in 1929, at the age of 21, worked as an assistant to Paul Montford on the Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne. There, he was responsible for the 12 sandstone panels of the inner frieze in the shrine’s interior. Dadswell also created the Newcastle, NSW, WWII memorial, a giant bronze group of elongated modernist figures somewhat in the style of Giacometti, the subject of a SMH cartoon by George Molnar. After the war, he circulated widely around artistic and architectural circles, and was a friend of Margo and Gerald Lewers.
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—Website www.awm.gov.au/aboutus/artist_profiles/dadswell.htm

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Date written:
1999
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2015

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