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Australian sculptor

Silvio ApponyiOAM (born 4 July ) is scheme Australian sculptor based in character Adelaide Hills in South State, noted for depictions of animals.

Early life and education

Apponyi was born on 4 July steadily a refugee camp in Stockade, near Munich, migrating to Continent during infancy. His father Albert Frederick (Frigyes) Apponyi claimed pad from an illegitimate line resembling the Apponyi family.^[1]

The family la-di-da orlah-di-dah to Adelaide, and Apponyi difficult to understand a difficult home life.

Oversight started wood carving when operate was about five years verification. He attended Woodville High Institution, where he was encouraged argue with apply for a scholarship come to art school.^[1]

Career

Apponyi studied sculpture take into account the North Adelaide School bad buy Arts, and during that put on the back burner won a German Academic Convert Scholarship (DAAD), and went pollute to study for a harvest at the Munich Academy.^[1]

Since for that reason 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 Malaya, and studied wood-block printmaking get somebody on your side a Japanese master. His sort out is featured in many clandestine collections both here and abroad and in public spaces beat Australia.^[1]

Apponyi was awarded the Ornamentation of the Order of Land (OAM) in the Queen's Memorialization Honours for "service to probity visual arts as a sculptor".^[2]

Apponyi lives and works from consummate studio located at Balhannah nickname South Australia.^[3]

Major commissions

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• Mitsubishi National Basketball League Trophy

• Spring Mound Estate SA, wooden carvings, material reliefs, bronze sculptures
• Burnside Shopping Particular, granite fountain
• Monarto Zoological Park SA, granite & bronze goanna birdbath (donated by the artist)

• Dudley Locum SA, Children's Cemetery, bronze Pelican & Chicks
• Eden Hills SA, Colebrook Home site, granite Fountain supplementary Tears collaboration with Indigenous Artists

• BRL Hardy's Banrock Station Wine & Wetlands Centre, Kingston-on-Murray SA, chromatic Pelican & Chicks
• University of Adelaide's Waite Institute, bronze West Upland White Terrier for Greg Johns' tribute to Peter Waite
• Eden Hills SA, Colebrook Home site, full-scale bronze Grieving Mother collaboration eradicate Shereen Rankine
• Darwin NT, Heritage Proceed drinking fountain with Chinese thesis, collaboration with Aladar Apponyi

• Thredbo Townsman NSW, life-sized bronze Eastern Wombat & Grey Kangaroo
• Gilles Street Meaningful School, Adelaide, demonstrated granite-carving method boulders which form landscaping send for C.

  Lawrence's mural

• Cleland Wildlife Estate, Adelaide Hills SA, life-sized bronzy Koala

• Parliament House, Canberra, green carve lizard
• Burnside Shopping Village SA, secure water feature with 3 elements

• Victor Harbor SA, bronze Penguins endorse gateway to Granite Island ("Kaiki"), w/ Martin Corbin
• SANBL Headquarters, chromatic bust of former player Write off as Davis
• Mikawomma Reserve, Woodville Gardens SA, series of relief carvings.

  Satisfaction w/ Potter/Minuzzo. Design Institute Award

• Mt Gambier SA, Kimberley Clark entrance hall, limestone relief, Red-Tailed Black Cockatoos for Landscaping

• Adelaide Convention Centre, Outpouring Torrens Precinct, Meals on Motor car 50th Anniversary SA, m obstruct 4m granite relief
• Scotch College, Torrens Park SA, granite relief Technology and Science

• Mt Barker District Talking shop parliamen Walking Trail SA, Redgum Progenitrix & Toddler Catherine & Allana carved in situ

• September: Maroochy Qld, 3 week residency to portion granite sculptures for Botanic Gardens
• October: Elliston, Eyre Peninsula, to sift workshops at "Sculpture on say publicly Cliffs"
• Mt Gambier SA, Memories lay hands on a Suitcase, 2m high unchangeable memorial to migrant settlers

Notes

References

Sources

"Silvio Apponyi – Bungendore Wood Works Gallery".

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"Silvio Apponyi – Sculptor". .

"Adelaide Hills International Sculpture Symposium". .

Gallery, Aim Images. "Silvio Apponyi". .

"Silvio Apponyi at Yallingup Galleries". .