“Creativity is a way of thinking and it influences everything you do”
Tom Bass (1916 - 2010), Australian Sculptor
The Learning Curve: Simon Harris, finalist Dobell Drawing Prize #23
“I had an epiphany last year when I suddenly realised that I was creating stone sculptures in my drawings... and that I really should be exploring real sculpture... with real stone. It’s already given me an invaluable insight into the genius of past sculptors from primitive ‘stone age’ carvers to the renaissance…”
Take a Look: TBSSS Annual Studio Exhibition
TBSSS is excited to be able to throw open the doors to once again to welcome students, friends and supporters into the studio for the 2022 Annual Studio Exhibition.
Take a Look: TBSSS Scholarship applications now open
Tom Bass Sculpture Studio School (TBSSS) is now taking applications for the TBSSS and Creative City of Sydney Youth and Accessibility Scholarships. Applications close Friday 2 Sep.
A Piece of History: Tom Bass’ Broadway Studio (Part 3)
“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…”
A Piece of History: Tom Bass’ Broadway Studio (Part 2)
“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…”
A Piece of History: Tom Bass’ Broadway Studio (Part 1)
“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…”
Take a Look: Wollombi Valley Sculpture Festival
“The sculptures include abstract, figurative, representational and hyper-realistic works using a wide variety of materials such as steel, wood, stone, bronze, fibreglass and woven fibres…”
The Learning Curve: Simran Dahiya
“I first fell in love with sculpting when I visited Musée Rodin in Paris in 2019. I was mesmerised by the manipulation of form and material to capture the intricacies of human life and emotion…”
The Learning Curve: Christophe Cornard
“It is only of late that I have grasped why it has always been so important to me: in fact when I mould, sculpt or shape a material, whether it be clay, stone, felt, glass or whichever, I become energetically and emotionally balanced…”
The Learning Curve: Sandra Berzins
“I love the escapism you get when creating something. I have been creative since I was a child, always making things…”
The Learning Curve: Bree Cribbin
I was fascinated by how a sculpture could stop me in my tracks and make me physically move around it whilst the surroundings faded into the background…
The Learning Curve: Elizabeth Peddell
“Art tells a story. It tells a story of hope, of suffering, of sadness, of happiness. All my art tells a story. The beauty of art is that it lives on long after you die…”
The Learning Curve: Georgina Mills
“In 2015 I took a life gamble and applied to the Florence Academy of Art. I was accepted so I moved to Florence, Italy to start learning how to sculpt the figure…”
The Learning Curve: Nicole Sudjana
“I’ve been working with my hands everyday for the last 15 years and have always enjoyed creating things, so making sculptures just seemed like an inevitable path to explore…”
The Learning Curve: Matt Bisaro
“After my first term at TBSSS I was hooked and booked in for each term after that…”
The Learning Curve: Liselle Mei
“I was drawn to sculpting as a form of tactile, creative expression…”