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"Born in Bendigo in 1931, Ken Unsworth started as
a painter but began making sculpture when he was working
at Bathurst Teachers College in 1966. Unsworth has had numerous
solo exhibitions, in Australia and overseas, including a
major survey exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South
Wales in 1998. Often bitterly funny, Unsworth’s work
mixes light and darkness in ways that keep us off-balance.
His works have been included in the Mildura Sculpture Triennial,
1973 and 1978; the Australian Sculpture Triennial, Melbourne,
1981, 1984 and 1993; and the Biennale of Sydney, 1976, 1982,
1984, 1986, 1990 and 2000. He has also participated in major
international exhibitions including the Paris Biennale,
1985; Magiciens de la Terre, Paris, 1989; and the Biennale
of Istanbul, Turkey, 1995. In 1978 Unsworth represented
Australia at the Venice Biennale. He has received numerous
awards including the Bi-centenary Sculpture Competition
Award in 1970, and the DAAD Scholarship, Berlin, in 1987.
In 1989 he was awarded an Australian Creative Fellowship,
and was made a Member of the Order of Australia for service
to sculpture."
Taken from the Art Gallery of NSW website 3 Dec 2007
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