Grahame King (1915 - 2008) was a prominent Australian artist who worked in lithography, painting and photography.  He also taught printmaking at RMIT and made many other contributions to printmaking, including through the Print Council of Australia (link).

In England, in 1950, he married sculptor Inge Neufeld (born in Berlin, in 1918) and the couple moved to Melbourne in 1951 and launched their first joint exhibition.  Grahame and Inge King built their home in Warrandyte where they raised their two children.

Inge King is probably best known for her monumental, wave-like, steel sculpture Forward Surge (1974) in the grounds of the Victorian Arts Centre.  She remains active designing and exhibiting her works, most recently at Australian Galleries (link) in 2009.  Many of her recent works are developed on a small scale to be realised initially as bronze sculptures of dimensions approximating 30cm.  They are also realised in stainless steel in dimensions to 1 and 1.5 metres, and in the case of Rings or Saturn in the grounds of the Heide Museum of Modern Art, in Bulleen, in stainless steel with dimensions 4 x 6 x 5 metres.

Inge King has an exhibition at Australian Galleries in Sydney, from 17 August to 4 September 2010.  Location, opening hours and  contact details are here .

This site is the result of a collaboration between Christine MacLeod, David Wilson <dnwilson@bigpond.com> and Tina and Robin Whittle <rw@firstpr.com.au>.  Christine and David are long-time friends of the Kings.  Tina and I first met Inge King at her Australian Galleries exhibition in August 2009.

 - Robin Whittle    August 2010