Bronwyn Oliver

Quick Facts

Full Name	Bronwyn Oliver
Occupation	Sculptor
Date Of Birth	Feb 22, 1959(1959-02-22)
Age	65
Date Of Death	2006-07-10
Birthplace	New South Wales
Country	Australia
Horoscope	Aquarius

Bronwyn Oliver Biography

Bronwyn Oliver is one of the most popular and richest Sculptor who was born on February 22, 1959 in New South Wales, Australia. Oliver was born Bronwyn Gooda on the 22nd of February 1959 located in Gum Flat, west of Inverell located in New South Wales. Parents were Milton who was a farmer and greenkeeper and Wendy who was employed in the pharmacy. Her talent for creativity was nurtured from an early age. When she was just eight years old, Oliver attended weekend art classes at Inverell which was taught by Ian Howard, who went to become dean at the school located in Sydney where she later went on to take classes. Being a dux at her school and her parents were expecting her to go to university. But, Oliver wished to pursue an artistic career. When she informed her parents about her plans, her mother said, “Darling, your father and I are very pleased you’re going to art school, but if you’d been a son, I think we’d be a little disappointed.” An rift then developed with her mother and family, which caused her to lose interaction with them in the past the next 25 years.

Despite their organic look, Oliver’s belief is that the work wasn’t rooted in the nature’s patterns. However, critics have noted the lifelike characteristics of earlier works that resembled shells, tails or claws or pointed out the apparent similarity to biological forms. McDonald stated on the fact that “For Oliver to deny nature is akin to Balthus saying there is nothing erotic about his paintings or Rothko claiming his works aren’t abstract.” Two major critiques of the work of Oliver that were published in her life (Fenner’s 1995 essay, and Fink’s 2002 journal piece) highlight dualism and inconsistency in the sculptures: Fenner describes them as “delicate and ephemeral, [yet] structurally robust and durable”; Fink sees them as “ethereal but solid, fluid yet rigid, open but closed”.

By the 2000s most of Oliver’s output constituted commissioned pieces, whether public or private. The most substantial of these is Vine, a 16.5 metre high sculpture installed as part of the $400 million refurbishment of the Sydney Hilton. Taking twelve months to create and requiring a budget of up to half million dollars, the work was completed in 2005. The sculpture was fabricated from 380 kilograms of aluminium, and assembled by a team of eight Croatian welders.

In 2000, Oliver’s piece Entwine was a finalist in the inaugural Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award, while in the following year, Oliver won the University of New South Wales inaugural sculpture commission competition, with her three-metre-high Globe. Other success followed, when Trace was selected for the National Gallery of Australia’s 2002 National Sculpture Prize exhibition.

A biographer Hannah Fink estimated that Oliver created 290 sculptures in his 22 years. Of the 290, works for public art are his most well-known works. They include Eyrie designed to be a part of Adelaide’s Hyatt Hotel in 1993, and Magnolia and Palm, commissioned in 1999 by the Sydney Botanical Gardens, as part of the Sydney Sculpture Walk. In the was the same year that Big Feathers was commissioned to be installed on the Queen Street Mall in Brisbane. It is comprised of two large feather-like forms that hang above the pedestrian area, illustrating “Queen Street’s history of parades as well as the mall’s connection between earth and sky”.

Bronwyn Oliver Net Worth

Bronwyn Oliver is one of the richest Sculptor from Australia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Bronwyn Oliver 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Bronwyn Joy Oliver (nee Gooda, 22 February 1959 10th July) was an Australian artist whose work mostly was based on metalwork. Oliver was born in the rural areas of New South Wales. She studied in the Sydney’s Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education and London’s Chelsea School of Art. She was a first-time success, receiving an New South Wales Travelling Art Scholarship in 1981. She also won an Moet & Chandon Australian Art Fellowship in 1984. Oliver moved to Sydney and continued to practice as a teacher until demise in the year 2006.

Her graduation from Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education in the year 1980. After winning the New South Wales Travelling Art Scholarship in 1983, she went on to earn her master’s degree at the Chelsea School of Art in 1984. Her work was inspired through Richard Deacon, Antony Gormley and Martin Puryear under whom she was studying in England. When she returned from her time in the United Kingdom, she immediately had more success when she was awarded an award called the Moet & Chandon Australian Art Fellowship. In 1988, she was awarded an artist-in-residence period located in Brest located on the shores of Brittany and where she pursued Celtic methods of metalworking.

In 2000, Oliver was included by Australian Art Collector in its list of Australia’s 50 “most collectable artists”. In 2005, her work was identified by auction dealers as amongst those of greatest interest in the secondary art market.

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In August 2002 she was one of five artists shortlisted by the Australian Government for a project to produce a public artwork celebrating the centenary of women’s suffrage in Australia.

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Just before her death, Oliver had been shortlisted for the 2006 Clemenger Contemporary Art Award. In the year following, Oliver was amongst 60 artists profiled in Sonia Payes’ book Untitled: Portraits of Australian Artists, while in 2008 her final works were included in the Adelaide Biennale of Australian Art. The secondary art market, meanwhile, was returning six-figure sums for her works at auction; in 2007 a record for Oliver’s work was set when Skein (2004) went under the hammer for $192,000. By 2010, Sydney Biennale chairman Luca Belgiorno-Nettis was reported to have paid $300,000 for one of Oliver’s sculptures, titled Tracery. In 2011, Sydney’s College of Fine Arts announced that its new sculpture studio would be named after Oliver. In late 2017 Hannah Fink’s book Bronwyn Oliver: Strange Things was launched by Kip Williams at Carthona.

Top Facts about Bronwyn Oliver

1. Bronwyn Oliver was an Australian sculptor born in 1959.
2. She studied at the City Art Institute in Sydney.
3. Oliver’s work is characterized by organic forms and intricate details.
4. Her sculptures were often made from materials such as bronze, steel, and copper.
5. Oliver won numerous awards throughout her career, including the prestigious Moët & Chandon Fellowship in 1989.
6. Her works have been exhibited internationally, including at the Venice Biennale in 1990.
7. Oliver suffered from depression and took her own life in 2006.
8. The National Gallery of Australia held a retrospective exhibition of her work in 2018-2019.
9. Her sculpture “Palm” is located outside the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia in Sydney.
10. Oliver’s legacy continues to inspire contemporary artists around the world today.

How did Bronwyn Oliver died?

Suicide

Where was Bronwyn Oliver born?

New South Wales, Australia

Where did Bronwyn Oliver live?

She was Bronwyn Gooda then and her family lived in northern NSW, in the cattle and wheat town of Inverell.

What do Bronwyn Oliver's artworks evoke?

In their suggestion of movement and organic growth, Bronwyn Oliver’s sculptures evoke the vitality of living forms. Her works appear to twist and curve, the intricate web of their construction carrying this movement across their surface.

How did Bronwyn Oliver make her sculptures?

A sculptor for her entire artistic career, Oliver used paper, cane or fibreglass for her early works. However, she found “fibreglass hazardous and paper too impermanent”, and for most of her career she worked in metal.