Frank Duyker

Frank started carving wood in his mid-teens and since then has maintained a keen interested in most aspects of the visual and performing arts.  After working in the electronics industry for a few years he began teaching electronics at Box Hill Institute. Soon he began studying Industrial design part-time at RMIT, reasoning that it was the ideal way to bridge the gap between sculpture and engineering. By then, his exposure to Aboriginal, Melanesian and Oceanic art had introduced more colour and mixed media into his work. In 2010 he produced his first large work “Tech. Men at the Top”. The piece which is now in the Smorgon family collection, was made of cast cobalt blue concrete studded with gold plated computer CPUs. In 2011 his work “Our World Covered with Crops”, which was made from reclaimed floppy and hard computer disks, received a special commendation at Lorne Sculpture.