“My creative process is fluid and organic. If I am carving stone, it starts with the choice of the raw stone and from there I simplify and if it’s too ‘simple’ I complicate. It’s a very hard thing to articulate as my carving process is more like an inner conversation, between me and the stone where we both speak to each other, listen, and adjust as required…”

One of Tom Bass Sculpture School's eminent teachers, Karen Alexander talks us through the creation of a recent commission, Spirit Girl…

The North Sydney Art Prize is a major biennial arts event showcasing some of the best in contemporary art from across Australia. This year’s exhibition features over 110 artworks to be displayed across the grounds of the historic Coal Loader site.

Sydney’s newest public art gallery, Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf opened its doors to the public for the first time in early November. The Gallery launched its artistic program with the Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize’s 20th anniversary exhibition.

“It was always with a feeling of excitement that I would turn off the Broadway, busy with traffic, into a small laneway leading to the door of the Tom Bass Sculpture Studio. There was a repair shop for fridges and whitegoods on the ground floor and I seem to remember perhaps a jeweller or a goldsmith in the building as well…”

“Here in this Studio I could make concrete my daydreams and hold my own against the roar and thunder of the city and the sadness and loss I was experiencing at that time. Tom’s teaching looked seriously at free play of imagination, contemplation and dreaming. There was no radio or noise apart from the soft sounds of students at work in this boundless silence, three floors up off Broadway…”

“I haven’t studied sculpture, I had studied Graphic Design at Randwick TAFE, my sculpting has come from being self-taught, making lots of mistakes and learning by them, observation is the best skill any hyperrealist sculptor can have…”

“As you stepped into the light-filled entry way, you climbed up the square timber stairwell to the top floor and entered another world!  The tall windows lined the walls and streamed dust-light into the room, while the window pane shadows moved across the floor throughout the day…” 

“At the beginning of 2020 I started to develop a new body of work considering eco-anxiety. However, emerging from a smoke-choked, apocalyptic summer and tumbling straight into the unpredictability of the global pandemic, what evolved was The State of Things: an amalgamation of the chaos that 2020 had to offer…”

The Western Sydney University Sculpture Award and Exhibition consistently attracts significant talent from across Australia and overseas. This year, there are 20 Finalists on show across the WSU Campbelltown Campus.

“I see clay as a social media with its long history in human culture and its universal familiarity. It provides me with infinite possibilities of form and a surface on which to scratch, write and paint…”

“I work across assemblage, installation, collage, printmaking and photography. Most of my sculptures are assemblages, 3D and 2D pieces created from discarded and unwanted toys…”

The first dedicated retrospective of one of the most important and dynamic, yet underrated, Australian sculptors of the 20th century.

Conceived as "the spirit of the community", the sculpture is a representation of a graceful yet triumphant winged figure with arms raised above her head to receive a descending dove of peace and beauty…

“The best subjects come from observing fleeting moments in the people near me, or from cinema or TV. These can be caught by camera or most often by sketching afterwards.”

Summer in Australia is not only marked by holidays, beach days and swimming, cold drinks and BBQs, it’s also a time to visit some blockbuster exhibitions!

'Meet Me Under the Dome is undoubtedly my most personal show to date. We all have unreliable memories and stories from our childhood that shape who we are…’

The undersea world of coral reefs is more magical, wondrous, complex, and spectacular than our collective imaginations at their very hallucinogenic, kaleidoscopic best…

For this year’s exhibition, 166 works from 103 sculptors were selected for the exhibition from 300 national and international submissions that were received…

‘Sculptures In The Garden’ is an exciting not for profit event that showcases Australian sculpture in a beautiful rural setting in Mudgee NSW.