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is unnamed and has no 'banking' significance other than being a work of public art to compliment the architecture of the building. The sculpture The original design maquette is also located in the Bank.[20]

    Hinder was born in New York, but was educated in Buffalo following her parents relocation to that city in 1909.  She commenced studies at the Buffalo Fine Arts Institute in 1925, moving to Boston in 1926to study sculpture and modelling at the School of the Museum of Foie Arts.  In May 1930 she married Henry Francis (Frank) Hinder at Wellesley, Massachusetts, and in 1934 they moved to Sydney, where the couple became pioneer figures in modern art especially in the Inter War period.

    Following World War II Hinder lectured at the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW) and at the National Art School, Sydney, and conducted sculpture courses at her home.  In 1949 the AGNSW was the first public gallery to acquire one of her works, Garden Sculpture (1945).

Figure 10 - Podium Sculpture by Margel Hinder located in the Martin Place forecourt, NBRSARCHITECTURE, July 2019.

    From the mid-1950s Hinder began working with metal, and an increasing preoccupation with movement and the need to move around a sculpture to engage with it and its form.  She worked as a freelance sculptor from 1964 onwards and was one of the few women artists in Australia engaged to undertake large public commissions.  Her work was included in the Second International Sculpture Exhibition (Paris, 1961) and the Captain James Cook Memorial Fountain located in the Civic Park, Newcastle NSW (1966).

A number of Australia-wide competitions were held in the early 1960s to assist in the selection and commissioning of public art works for inclusion in the Head Office.

3.7.4            Margo Lewers
    Hettie Margaret (Margo) Lewers, nee Plate (1908-1978)[21] was born at Mosman, Sydney, and undertook evening classes in Sydney under Antonio Dattilo-Rubbo and Desiderius Orban, where she met Gerald Lewers.  Following their marriage, they travelled to Europe in 1934 , enrolling at the Central School of Arts and Crafts, London, where Margo studied textile design, painting and drawing.

    On returning to Sydney, she opened an shop in Rowe Street, and continued to design hand-printed fabrics.  She undertook works in a range of mediums including painting, textiles, sculpture and mosaic, and was recognised as a leading component of abstract expressionism in post-war Australia.  Margo was commissioned to design  a mosaic wall for the former Canberra-Rex Hotel, Canberra (1967), the Aubusson tapestry (1968) for the boardroom of the RBA Head Office, and won over fourteen awards and prizes.

    Her painting, Unobserved, was acquired by the Reserve Bank as part of its art collection in c1966.  Such was her reputation as