Prolific sculptor Matthew Harding, behind many Canberra public artworks, has died


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But he also constructed dozens of works via a nation and around a world, and his sculptures are now found in private and open collections in a United States, a United Kingdom, Japan, Vanuatu, Singapore, Cambodia, Canada and New Zealand.


Although he changed divided from Canberra several years ago, and was vital with his family in Victoria, his impact on a city is outrageous and permanent, by a works he created, both alone and in partnership with others, and a people he helped along a way.


He initial competent as a carpenter and joiner in Newcastle in a early 1980s, before focusing on art, relocating to Canberra and graduating with initial category honours from a ANU School of Art in 1995.


David Williams, who was afterwards a school’s director, pronounced Harding’s talent was clear right from his really initial opening interview.


Although he was drawn to woodworking early on, he would after work in a accumulation of materials, including immaculate steel, marble and stone.


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