Michael Young is an Australian minimalist sculptor and painter, art curator and art teacher. He was born in Ballarat, Victoria in 1945, where he studied art at the School of Mines. His minimalist steel or aluminium sculptures brought him to attention in the decade 1965-1975, and a commission for a stainless steel sculpture for the foyer of the 1969 St James Building, Melbourne. He exhibited at Strines Gallery 18 November–5 December 1969, at the 4th (1970) and 5th (1973) Mildura Sculpture Triennials, and in the Minnie Crouch acquisitive print and watercolour exhibition at Ballarat Art Gallery from 21 March to 25 April 1973 amongst 26 male and six female artists, judged by art curator and writer Sonia Dean. Realities Gallery staged a public exhibition in Como Gardens which included Young’s excursion into earthworks, Six Trapdoors. A solo show 13–23 August 1975 followed at Pinacotheca Gallery, Richmond. With Peter Booth, Ian Burn, Dale Hickey, Robert Hunter, Paul Partos, Mel Ramsden, Trevor Vickers, Robert Jacks and others he showed sculptural work in Minimal art, 26 February–28 March 1976 at the National Gallery of Victoria with a catalogue essay by Jennifer Phipps.
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