Lawrence Beck

  • Artist (Sculptor)
NSW sculptor Lawrence Beck is active member of the arts community who has organised several sculpture symposia around NSW. He was the artist responsible for carving the memorial sculpture for Fred Hollows' grave in Bourke in north-western NSW.
Talk | Version history | Updated Oct. 19, 2011 | Created Jan. 1, 1999
Name
Lawrence Beck
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Sculptor)
Residence
  • c.1986 Koolawong, NSW
Active Period
  • c.1986- c.1993
Languages
  • English
Is Indigenous
No
Initial Record Data Source
  • Legacy data. Source 'unknown'

sculptor, lives Koolawong, NSW. Organised Broken Hill Sculpture Symposium (in honour of Fred Hollows) in 1993 and also Wondabyne I and II Sculptors’ Symposia in the Brisbane Waters area. Carved the memorial sculpture for Fred Hollows’ grave at Bourke. Has also created busts of Nugget Coombs, 1986 (auctioned by the ANU in 1998) and of Lloyd Rees outside Sydney Town Hall.

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Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1999
Last updated:
2011
associate of
Lloyd Rees
1895
Artist (Draughtsman), Artist (Painter), Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
associate of
Fred Hollows
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Nugget Coombs
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Mollie Horseman
1911
Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
(Bust of Lloyd Rees)
(Memorial sculpture for Fred Hollows' grave)
(Bust of Nugget Coombs)
Date
1986
Wondabyne II Sculptors' Symposium
None
Exhibition (exhibited at)
Brisbane Waters National Park, NSW
Wondabyne I Sculptors' Symposium
None
Exhibition (exhibited at)
Brisbane Waters National Park, NSW
Broken Hill Sculpture Symposium
1993
Exhibition (exhibited at)
Broken Hill, NSW