Rein Slagmolen

H. W. Jones Pty Ltd, through the initiative of Rex Jones, expanded their lead-lighting work about the time the new St Andrew's Church, Brighton was being built in 1961. H.W. Jones was an established firm in Sydney Road, Brunswick, Melbourne, and operated as experienced lead lighters, merchants, and importers.

In the early 1960s, Slagmolen and Vetrart Studios worked with the noted Australian church architect Louis Williams for such major commissions as St Andrew's Church, Brighton and St Boniface's Cathedral, Bunbury. Another well-known example of Slagmolen's work is the glass mosaic wall in the foyer of Qantas House in Melbourne. By the late 1960s he was collaborating with the architects Godfrey & Spowers, Hughes, and Mewton & Lobb.

During the 1960s Slagmolen developed an artists’ colony at the former convent, Casa Maria, in Melbourne.

Rein emigrated to Australia with his then-wife Hilary Prudence "Prue" Reynolds Slagmolen in 1949 to establish himself as an artist and sculptor.

As a young man, Slagmolen saw himself "as 'Tarzan' and looking for adventure". He spent some years in Africa before the Second World War. He enlisted in the Princess Irene Brigade in England in 1943, where he was a member of Gevechts Groep 3 (GGIII). He returned to Africa after the war.

Marinus "Rein" Slagmolen (7 November 1916 - 29 January 1999) was a Dutch-Australian artist and sculptor.

Rein Slagmolen was born on 7 November 1916 in the province of Utrecht, Netherlands, as the youngest son of Gijsbertus Slagmolen and Mathilda Maria Slagmolen-Jacobs. Rein had three older siblings, Cornelia Maria "Corrie" (1906-2004), Gijsbertus "Gijs" (1908-1993), and Marinus Allegondus (1909-1911).