Paul Beadle
- Date of birth
- 1917
- Date of death
- 1992
- Notes
- Paul Beadle was a sculptor, cartoonist/illustrator and printmakerv who was born in England in 1917. He studied at the Cambridge Art School and the Central School of Arts and Crafts during the 1930s. He arrived in Australia in 1944 and established a reputation through his tiny, complex bronzes satirising history, literature and politics. He was a founding member of the Society of Sculptors and Associates in Sydney, and taught at the National Art School for four years before becoming head of the Newcastle Art School in 1952. He was principal of the South Australian School of Art for two years and served for five years in the Royal Navy. Amongst other commissions, Beadle made the 11-metre high eagle and sphere surmounting the Australian-American Memorial at Canberra's Russell Offices, which was completed at a cost of 100 000 pounds (much of it raised by public subscription) in early 1954. In 1961 he moved to Auckland to take up the position of Chair of Fine Arts at the University's highly regarded Elam School, but remained a design consultant to various Australian bodies. Paul Beadle died in 1992. Source: https://www.portrait.gov.au/
