Inge King
Awakening
Inge King, who trained at the Berlin Academy of Arts, The Royal
Academy, London and the Glasgow School of Arts, emigrated to
Australia in 1951. A foundation member of the Centre Five
group with interests in the integration of sculpture with
architecture, King began using welded steel as a medium in
1959.
From using bold shapes against the vastness of the Australian
landscapes to explore shapes and their metamorphosis, King sees
sculpture as "a drawing from 1000 angles" or "a vision in
motion". With its uninterrupted smooth convex and concave
surfaces and clearly defined edges, the maquette Awakening is an
elegant, dynamic form arising from the ground. Unlike the
full scale version made from polished ground stainless steel that
stands in Burwood Park, Sydney, the maquette is made from black
painted steel that absorbs rather than reflects light. There
is, however, still a play of light on the surface that is captured
by the viewer when walking around the pod like form.