Margel Hinder
Margel Hinder Ina ( born January 4, 1905 in New York, USA, † 1995 in Sydney, Australia) was an American- Australian sculptor. It belongs to the group of the first abstract sculptors of Australia.
Life and work
Margel Harris was the daughter of art-loving parents. In its fifth year the family twisted to Buffalo, where she lived near a gallery and had contacts with sculptors. In 1925 she began an art education at the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy and from 1926 to 1929 at the School of Fine Arts in Boston. She participated in a summer seminar at the Moriah Summer School, met the Australian painter and sculptor Frank Hinder, who had been trained in 1927 in the U.S., whom she married in 1930. She made a 1934 trip to Taos in America New Mexico, where Margel Hinder made acquaintance with the culture of the Pueblo of Taos culture. She emigrated with her husband in the same year to Sydney in Australia.
Her first works were wooden sculptures that were influenced by the works of Constantin Brancusi and Maillol. However, their work has been influenced by European Constructivist Naum Gabo and László Moholy -Nagy in the 1940s and she experimented with wire and plastic.
By 1952, they settled in their works from their immediate surroundings as inspiration from the birds and the Currawongs 1946. She worked together with the sculptor Gerald Lewers, who taught them how to bring movement into molds.
From 1953 she used next to the wood material and metal, being inspired by the works of Naum Gabo, they also experimented with Kinetic Art. In her later career she made large sculptures such as the Captain Cook Memorial Fountain in Civic Park, Newcastle, 1961-1966.
Margel Hinder was honored for her work with the Australia Medal, General Division, and with the Order of Australia in 1979.