Life-size sculpture by Mueck; visit site for more works
Ronald known as Ron Mueck was born in 1958
is an Australian sculptor working in the United Kingdom.
Born in 1958 to German parents in Melbourne,
Australia, Ron Mueck grew up in the family business of puppetry and
doll-making. He worked initially as a creative director in Australian
children’s television, before moving to America to work there in film and
advertising. In 1996, he was
asked by Paula Rego to make a small figure of Pinocchio for her group
exhibition Spellbound: Art and Film, at the Hayward Gallery, London.
Mueck first came to public attention with his
sculpture "Dead Dad". This portrayal of his recently deceased father
- at roughly half-scale and made from memory and imagination - was included in
the 1997 exhibition Sensation at the Royal Academy of
Arts, London.
Ron Mueck’s first solo show was at the Anthony
d’Offay Gallery, London in 1998. His 5-metre (16 ft) high sculpture Boy 1999
was a feature in the Millennium Dome, and later exhibited at the
49th Venice Biennale in 2001. Today it sits in the foyer of the Danish
Contemporary Art Museum ARoS in Aarhus.
Between 2000 and 2002, Mueck was Associate Artist at
the National Gallery, London. During this two-year post he created the
works Mother and Child, Pregnant Woman, Man in
a Boat, and Swaddled Baby and culminated in an exhibition
in 2003.
During 2016, Mueck exhibited at the Theseus Temple,
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, and Sara Hildén Art Museum, Finland.
In 2017 Mueck had a major solo presentation at
the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. As part of the Hull City Of Culture,
Mueck's works appeared as part of SKIN, at the Ferens Art
Gallery (Hull, UK), alongside paintings by Lucien Freud and Edouard
Manet, and Spencer Tunick's photographs of his installation Sea Of
Hull. The exhibition features a new work Poke, as well as Wild
Man, Spooning Couple, Youth, Ghost,
and Mask II.
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