Peter Corlett Oam

Place: Melbourne

Born: 1944

Biography:

Peter Corlett OAM (born 1944) is an Australian sculptor, known for his full-figure sculptures cast in bronze, especially his memorial works. He studied sculpture at RMIT University, Melbourne, from 1961 to 1964. In 1975, he was awarded a special projects grant from the Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council. Between 1977 and 1980, he was artist in residence at Exeter University and Exeter College of Art in the United Kingdom. In 1987, Corlett won a competition to create a memorial 'to commemorate the courage and compassion' of John Simpson Kirkpatrick, a stretcher bearer during the Gallipoli Campaign in World War I. The result was a full size bronze sculpture, Simpson and his donkey, 1915, that now stands outside the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. Corlett's other notable works include Cobbers, a full-size bronze sculpture created in 1998 for the Australian Memorial Park, near Fromelles in northern France. He has also created several sculptures of famous people associated with his native Melbourne, such as John Farnham, Kylie Minogue and Dame Nellie Melba.