Silvio Apponyi

Last updated

Silvio Apponyi

OAM
Born
Albert Silvio Apponyi

(1949-07-04) 4 July 1949 (age 74)
NationalityAustralian
Alma mater Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, SA School of Art
OccupationSculptor
Years active1969–present
Notable workWhale Tail, Bob the Railway Dog, Flame of Learning, Memories in a Suitcase
SpouseNatalija Apponyi
Children4
Website www.apponyi.net

Silvio Apponyi OAM (born 4 July 1949) is an Australian sculptor based in the Adelaide Hills in South Australia, who focuses primarily on Animalier.

Contents

Early life and education

Apponyi was born on 4 July 1949 in a refugee camp in Dachau, near Munich, migrating to Australia during infancy. He claimed his father Albert Frederick (Frigyes) Apponyi descended from an illegitimate line of the Apponyi family. [1]

The family moved to Adelaide, and Apponyi had a difficult home life. He started wood carving when he was about five years old. He attended Woodville High School, where he was encouraged to apply for a scholarship to art school. [1]

Career

Apponyi studied sculpture at the North Adelaide School of Arts, and during that time won a German Academic Exchange Scholarship (DAAD), and went on to study for a year at the Munich Academy. [1]

Since then he has had one-man shows and group exhibitions locally, interstate and overseas. He has won several prizes, accepted commissions, conducted workshops in Australia and Malaysia, and studied wood-block printmaking under a Japanese master. His work is featured in many private collections both here and overseas and in public spaces across Australia. [1]

Apponyi was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in the 2020 Queen's Birthday Honours for "service to the visual arts as a sculptor". [2]

Apponyi lives and works from his studio located at Balhannah in South Australia. [3]

Major commissions

1981: University of Adelaide's Waite Institute ”Aries"

1985: Goulburn NSW, ”The Big Merino" & St Patrick's College, Goulburn, life-sized "St Patrick"

1986: St Dominic's College, North Adelaide "St Dominic"

1988: Tamworth NSW, Bi-centennial Park, 67 stone sculptures & reliefs

1989: State Bank Tower, Adelaide "laminated Wooden Relief"

1990: Mt Annan Botanic Garden NSW, sundial of human involvement – with Sundials SA, Flinders University of SA, bronze & marble \”Squid & Prey\” Kingston SE SA, Maria Creek beautification, granite sculptures & sundial Berri SA, \”A Special Place for Jimmy James\” – with Bluey Roberts

1991 – 2006: Mitsubishi National Basketball League Trophy

1992: Henley Beach Catholic Church, "Mary with Child" (RAIA Award), Granite Island "Sea lion carved in Situ" & Healesville Sanctuary, Victoria ”Laughing Kookaburras"

1993: Adelaide Zoo "Sealion", Victor Harbor ”Whale Tail", Flinders University ”Woman Washing her Hair", Ashford Special School "Relief Carving on Granite" Townsend School for the Blind, "Birdbath with Bronze Tortoise"

1994: Keswick SA "Wedgetailed Eagle" Regency College of TAFE "Marine Sculpture"

1996: Wagga Wagga "Waterbirds & Goannas", Lutheran Homes "Granite Fountain", Healesville Sanctuary "Kangaroo and Emu with Chicks"

1997: Spring Hill Estate SA, wooden carvings, stone reliefs, bronze sculptures, Burnside Shopping Village, Granite Fountain Monarto Zoological Park SA, granite & bronze goanna birdbath (donated by the artist)

1998: Dudley Park SA, Children\'s Cemetery, bronze Pelican & Chicks Eden Hills SA, Colebrook Home site, granite \”Fountain of Tears\”collaboration with indigenous artists

1999: BRL Hardy\'s Banrock Station Wine & Wetlands Centre, Kingston-on-Murray SA, bronze Pelican & Chicks University of Adelaide\'s Waite Institute, bronze West Highland White Terrier for Greg Johns\’ tribute to Mr Waite Eden Hills SA, Colebrook Home site, life-sized bronze \”Grieving Mother\” collaboration with Shereen Rankine Darwin NT, Heritage Walk drinking fountain with Chinese theme, collaboration with Aladar Apponyi

2000: Thredbo Village NSW, life-sized bronze Eastern Wombat & Grey Kangaroo Gilles Street Primary School, Adelaide, Demonstrated granite-carving on boulders which form landscaping for C. Lawrence\'s mural Cleland Wildlife Park, Adelaide Hills SA, life-sized bronze Koala

2001: Parliament House, Canberra, green marble Lizard Burnside Shopping Village SA, granite water feature with 3 elements

2002: Victor Harbor SA, bronze Penguins for gateway to Granite Island (\”Kaiki\”), w Martin Corbin SANBL Headquarters, bronze bust of former player Mark Davis Mikawomma Reserve, Woodville Gdns SA, series of relief carvings. Collaboration w Potter/Minuzzo. Design Institute Award

2003: Mt Gambier SA, Kimberley Clark foyer, limestone relief, Red-Tailed Black Cockatoos for Landscaping

2004: North Adelaide SA, St Dominic\'s Priory College, Water Feature and Relief of Young Kaurna girl

2005: Adelaide Convention Centre, River Torrens Precinct, Meals on Wheels 50th Anniversary SA, 2.6m x 4m granite relief Scotch College, Torrens Park SA, granite relief \”Technology and Science\”

2006: Mt Barker District Council Walking Trail SA, Redgum Mother & Toddler \”Catherine & Allana\” carved in situ

2007: September Maroochy Qld, 3 week residency to carve granite sculptures for Botanic Gardens.

2007: October to Elliston, Eyre Peninsula to give workshops at Sculpture on the Cliffs, Mt Gambier SA, \”Memories in a Suitcase\”, 2m high granite memorial to migrant settlers

2009: Peterborough SA, \”Bob the Railway Dog\’

2010: February St Mark\'s College, North Adelaide, \”Flame of Learning\” white marble column.

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Archibald Fountain</span> Fountain in Sydney, Australia

The Archibald Fountain, properly called the J. F. Archibald Memorial Fountain is located in Hyde Park, in central Sydney. It is named after J. F. Archibald, owner and editor of The Bulletin magazine, who bequeathed funds to have it built. Archibald specified that it must be designed by a French artist, both because of his great love of French culture and to commemorate the association of Australia and France in World War I. He wished Sydney to aspire to Parisian civic design and ornamentation. The artist chosen was François-Léon Sicard, who completed it in Paris in 1926 but never saw the sculpture be placed in Sydney, where it was unveiled on 14 March 1932 by the Lord Mayor of Sydney, Samuel Walder.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Anzac Memorial</span> Heritage-listed war memorial in Sydney, Australia

The Anzac Memorial is a heritage-listed war memorial, museum and monument located in Hyde Park South near Liverpool Street in the CBD of Sydney, Australia. The Art Deco monument was designed by C. Bruce Dellit, with the exterior adorned with monumental figural reliefs and sculptures by Rayner Hoff, and built from 1932 to 1934 by Kell & Rigby. This state-owned property was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 23 April 2010.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">City of Mitcham</span> Local government area in South Australia

The City of Mitcham is a local government area in the foothills of southern Adelaide, South Australia. Within its bounds is Flinders University, South Australia's third largest, and the notable, affluent suburb of Springfield which contains some of the city's most expensive properties.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Robert Hannaford</span> Australian realist artist

Robert Lyall "Alfie" Hannaford, is an Australian realist artist notable for his drawings, paintings, portraits and sculptures. He is a great-great-great-grandson of Susannah Hannaford.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Palmer, South Australia</span> Town in South Australia

Palmer is a town just east of the Adelaide Hills region of South Australia along the Adelaide-Mannum Road, 70 kilometres east-north-east of the state capital, Adelaide and 15 km west-north-west of Mannum. It is located in the Mid Murray Council local government area. At the 2006 census, Palmer had a population of 329.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Walker Hancock</span> American sculptor

Walker Kirtland Hancock was an American sculptor and teacher. He created notable monumental sculptures, including the Pennsylvania Railroad World War II Memorial (1950–52) at 30th Street Station in Philadelphia, and the World War I Soldiers' Memorial (1936–38) in St. Louis, Missouri. He made major additions to the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., including Christ in Majesty (1972), the bas relief over the High Altar. Works by him are presently housed at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, the Library of Congress, the U.S. Supreme Court, and the United States Capitol.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mikawomma Reserve</span>

The Mikawomma Reserve is found in the suburb of Woodville Gardens on the corner of Liberty Grove & Ridley Grove in South Australia, Australia. Mikawomma is the Kaurna name for the plain that lies between Adelaide and Port Adelaide. The Kaurna people are the traditional custodians of the Adelaide Plains area. The landscape design and the artworks in Mikawomma Reserve reflect indigenous plants and animals as well as culture and history.

Eden Hills is a south eastern suburb located in the foothills of Adelaide, South Australia. It is part of the local government area of the City of Mitcham.

David Noonan is an Australian artist who lives and works in London.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sean K. L. Browne</span> American artist

Sean Kekamakupaʻa Lee Loy Browne was born in 1953 and raised on Hawaiian Homestead Lands in Keaukaha, Hilo, Hawaii. A graduate of the Kamehameha Schools class of 1971, he earned his Bachelor’s degree at the University of Redlands in 1975 and his Master of Fine Arts in sculpture from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in 1983. In 1981 he traveled to Pietrasanta, Italy to study marble carving under Paoli Silverio and was later accepted as an artist-in-residence at Henreaux Marble Company in Querceta, Italy. In 1985 he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship, enabling him to study stone sculpture under the guidance of Isamu Noguchi in Shikoku, Japan. For many years, Browne taught sculpture at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and at Kapiʻolani Community College.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Brenda Putnam</span> American sculptor teacher and author (1890–1975)

Brenda Putnam was an American sculptor, teacher and author.

John Christie Wright, generally referred to as J. Christie Wright, was a Scottish-born Australian sculptor.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">John Rhind (sculptor)</span> Scottish sculptor (1828–1892)

John RhindARSA (1828–1892) was a Scottish sculptor, based in Edinburgh. He was born in Banff the son of a master mason. He was trained under Alexander Handyside Ritchie (1804–1870). He served this apprenticeship in a yard at 4 East Broughton Place.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Georg Wrba</span> German sculptor and graphic artist

Georg Wrba was a German sculptor and graphic artist. He created some 3,000–4,000 works, including as a collaborator of the Zwinger workshop.

Terrance Kippax Plowright is an Australian artist, based in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales. His works include contemporary and figurative sculptures. He has designed and created large public sculptural water features and murals, substantial public cenotaphs, commemorative cast bronze sculptures, and a large body of religious and spiritual work that includes stained glass windows, altars, lecterns, baptismal fonts and mosaics.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Maty Grunberg</span>

Maty Grunberg born 1943, is an Israeli sculptor and known also for his Artist Books.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Creswell Gardens</span>

The Creswell Gardens are located in the Adelaide Park Lands between the Adelaide Oval, War Memorial Drive, King William Road and St Peter's Cathedral. They were established in 1909 and named after South Australian sportsman John Creswell. The gardens contain a number of Adelaide's landmark features.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rosemary Madigan</span> Australian sculptor (1926–2019)

Rosemary Wynnis Madigan was an Australian sculptor, stonecarver and woodcarver who focused on the human figure. Born in Glenelg to the geologist Cecil Madigan, she decided on a career as a sculptor at the age of 12 and studied in schools in Adelaide and Sydney. Madigan won a three-year scholarship to study abroad from 1950 to 1953. She began teaching pottery, painting and sculpture at various schools between the 1950s and the 1960s. Madigan was in a working partnership with the constructivist sculptor Robert Klippel until the latter's death in 2001 and won the Wynne Prize for a carved sandstone torso in 1986.

References

[4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

  1. 1 2 3 4 Jenny Palmer (March 2000). "Full transcript of an interview with Silvio Apponyi" (PDF). J.D. Somerville Oral History Collection (OH 562). State Library of South Australia. Retrieved 8 June 2020. For the Eminent Australians Oral History Project
  2. "Albert Silvio APPONYI". Dept of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
  3. Morse, Dana; Lysaght, Gary-Jon (7 June 2020). "South Australian 2020 Queen's Birthday honours recipients announced". ABC. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
  4. "Silvio Apponyi – Bungendore Wood Works Gallery". bungendorewoodworks.com.au.
  5. "Silvio Apponyi – Sculptor". apponyi.net.
  6. "Adelaide Hills International Sculpture Symposium". adelaidehillssculpture.com.au.
  7. Gallery, Art Images. "Silvio Apponyi". artimagesgallery.com.au.
  8. "Silvio Apponyi at Yallingup Galleries". yallingupgalleries.com.au.