Stuart Devlin was an Australian-born British silversmith who was born in Geelong, Victoria, Australia, in 1931. Devlin was interested in metalworking from an early age, and after finishing school, he enrolled at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, where he studied goldsmithing and silversmithing. Stuart achieved the highest marks ever awarded and gained a travel scholarship for the Royal College of Art in London (1958-60). He was subsequently awarded a Harkness fellowship to pursue silversmithing and sculpture at Columbia University, New York (1960-62). This ended with a one-man sculpture show at the Thibaut Gallery on Madison Avenue.
Winning the competition to design Australia’s decimal coinage in 1964 changed his life. He supervised the cutting of the dies at the Royal Mint in London; and broke with tradition by making his designs an integral part of the blank. In 1965, using his prize money, he bought more...
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