Ron Mueck
Ron Mueck was born in 1958 in Melbourne, Australia, to parents who were toy makers and began his career working on the Australian children's television program Shirl's Neighbourhood. Mueck worked on childrens television shows for 15 years before working in special effects for such films as 'Labyrinth', a 1986 fantsy epic starring David Bowie.
In the late 1980s Mueck established his own company in London making animatronics for the advertising industry. Being two dimensional props, they were designed to be photographed from one side. This was not sufficient for Mueck and increasingly he wanted to create realistic sculptures that were perfect from all angles.
As a result, in 1996 Mueck decided to turn to fine art and sculpture. In the 1990s Mueck was commissioned to create something highly realistic for an advertisement and was searching for the ideal material. Latex wasn't suitable as he wanted something harder and subsequently he discovered fibreglass resin.
Mueck began collaborating with his mother-in-law and painter, Paula Rego, to produce small sculptural figures as part of a tableau she was showing at the Hayward Gallery. Rego introduced him to Charles Saatchi who was impressed with Mueck's figure of Pinnochio (created for Rego's exhibition) and began to collect and commission sculptures. This led to the piece which made Mueck's name, Dead Dad, being included in the Sensation show at the London Royal Academy in 1997. Dead Dad is a scilicone and mixed media sculpture of the corpse of Mueck's father reduced to about two thirds of its natural scale. Mueck makes a point of not making his sculpture life-size as he feels reducing or enlarging the scale demands more interest from the viewer.
Mueck's five metre high sculpture Boy 1999 was a feature in the Millennium Dome and later exhibited in the Venice Biennale in 2001.
In 1999 Mueck was appointed as Associate Artist at the National Gallery, London.During this two-year post he created the works, Mother and Child, pregnant Woman, Man in a Boat, and Swaddled Baby. In 2002 his sculpture, Pregnant Woman was purchased by the National Gallery of Australia for AU $800,000.

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