PEGASUS SCULPTURES


There are two Pegasus sculptures on the Senior School Campus – one is a bronze in Helicon Place and the other is of wood near the Austin Gray Centre.

1. The large bronze statue of Pegasus with wings outspread about to take to the air from the rocky surface of Mount Helicon is located at the Senior School Campus in Helicon Place between the main Oval, the Rolland Centre and the War Memorial Wing. It was sculpted by Peter Corlett.

It was funded and presented to the College by the Betts, Gray, Nall, Rogers and Wettenhall families in 1995 and unveiled by Dr Norman Wettenhall. The idea of having a statue of Pegasus in the College grounds had been discussed for many years. John Rogers and Austin Gray (who took photos of statues of Pegasus wherever he travelled) had supported this concept. Peter Corlett, sculptor of the Phar Lap statue at Flemington Racecourse, Melbourne was commissioned to carry out the work together with the Meridian Foundry which did the casting.

Corlett has contributed many fine works to the landscape including Sir Edward 'Weary' Dunlop (Canberra and Melbourne, 1995); Cobbers (Fromelles, 1998); Four Victorian Premiers (Treasury Place, Melbourne, 1999); C J La Trobe (State Library of Victoria forecourt, 2006); and the Australian Light Horse Memorial (Be'er Sheva, Israel).


The granite rocks are from the You Yangs and were generously provided by David Hume and his family, including Annie Young. The original work included a flow of water trickling from one of the rocks where Pegasus struck his hoof to produce the spring known as Hippocrene.























2. A sculpture in wood by sculptor Viktor Cebergs and entitled 'Pegasus Rising' was created in 2001. It is located near the Austin Gray Centre.