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25.01.2022 Finnish artist Lisa Hietanen knits life size sculptures of her friends and neighours that live in her small town. Take a look at the incredible detail and see more on her website: https://liisahietanen.squarespace.com

24.01.2022 A short film by Dubbo based sculptor Brett 'Mon' Garling. Take a look.

24.01.2022 Announcing a NEW Monday Evening Workshop for Term 3. We are so pleased that our regular students, as well as new students are eager to get back into the Studio! Workshop places are very limited, so weve added an extra Monday evening session which will be taught by Karen Alexander. If youre thinking about booking, dont delay - you may miss out! Head to our website: https://www.tbsss.org.au/classes/ We cant wait to see everyone back in the Studio

24.01.2022 Artist Pete Rush impulsively made a simple horse sculpture on a Terrigal beach from natural materials the response from locals was so positive, it inspired him to create a seaside menagerie that includes horses and megafauna, take a look...

24.01.2022 News flash! Two last minute spots have become available in next weeks previously sold out Special Life Study Workshop - The Figure and Space with guest teacher Ingrid Morley. Over 4 days (Mon - Thu) you will have the chance to work with a live model and you will work in wax. You will explore visual tension, negative space, scale, proportion and balance. Take home a small work in wax or cast your work in bronze. If youre keen - phone 02 9565 4851 or email [email protected] to book!

23.01.2022 This month Australian sculptor Robert Klippel would have been 100 years old. Klippel was born in Sydney on the 19 June 1920 and 81 years later died in Sydney on the 19 June 2001. When he died in 2001, Robert Klippel was hailed as Australias most significant sculptor. His oeuvre, comprised of 1200 sculptures and more than 5000 drawings and collages, reveals a singular vision distinguished by an energetic drive to create new artistic forms that were both of their time and wh...olly original. Within the extraordinary diversity of his three-dimensional work, which includes carved, constructed and cast forms, Klippel sought to express what he described as the inter-relationship between the cogwheel and the bud and to equatethe purpose of the mechanical contrivance with the purpose of the questing root, the rising sap, and the unfurling leaf. Through identifying connections between nature and the mechanised, industrial world, Klippel aimed to create an art which engaged directly with what he perceived as defining elements of the twentieth century, and which therefore, had meaning and relevance to contemporary life." (Kirsty Grant, Assembled - The Art of Robert Klippel, Tarrawarra Museum, 2019, p.7) Images taken from the Art Gallery of NSW website. Text courtesy of Annette Larkin Fine Art, June eNewsletter. See more

23.01.2022 TBSSS friend and guest teacher Anita Johnson Larkin has a new solo exhibition that has just opened at Wollongong Art Gallery titled 'Come to me without a word' and it runs until 11 October. Abandoned and collected objects are combined with felt, beeswax, honey and lead in Larkins artworks offering themselves up as intimate poetry of love, longing and loss. Chairs, ladders, crutches, hot-water bottles, violins and beds, can be seen to stretch, slump, climb, smell of cloves, wrap themselves in the warmth of felt or emit the sound of bees. We loved watching this short film about Anita's practice - such a great insight into her work...

22.01.2022 We are so happy to have our students back for Term 3 Workshops. Here is a sculpture by Mia a Wednesday AM Workshop student. Mias cow has waited patiently for 4 months to get those ears. Thanks to TBSSS teacher Wendy Black for the pic.

21.01.2022 Workshops are filling fast! We have lots on offer in the next few months including - a NEW online self portraiture workshop with Ingrid Morley, a Life Study with Jenny Pollak and our Term 4 open workshop program. Dont delay, book today and come sculpt with us. Head to our website: https://www.tbsss.org.au

20.01.2022 Sadly due to COVID travel restrictions the wonderful ALNASSAR SCULPTURE wont be able to make it to Sydney to take the ever popular summer Marble Carving Workshops in January at TBSSS. We will very much miss Usamas conversation, his teaching and ideas, his calmness and strong Italian coffee! But we look forward to having him back in January 2022. News on the 2021 summer workshop program coming soon!

20.01.2022 Sculptor Thomas J Prices 'Reaching Out' artwork is latest of relatively few public sculptures of black women in UK. Take a look...

20.01.2022 Bringing some inspiration to your Wednesday with a spotlight on Bronwyn Oliver. Oliver (1959-2006) was one of the most significant Australian sculptors of recent decades. Emerging in the early 1980s when many artists were turning to installation, video and other ephemeral art forms, Oliver resolutely pursued making complex and substantial works in a variety of materials, eventually exclusively in metal. Studying in the UK and working in Europe, Oliver came to artistic maturi...ty at the time of an international resurgence of sculpture; having attained a Masters degree at Chelsea School of Art in 1982-83, she witnessed the nascent years of the New British Sculpture. She developed an original, distinctive and enduring vocabulary that expressed her fascination with the inner life and language of form, and she tenaciously followed the beguiling demands of her chosen materials. My work is about structure and order. It is a pursuit of a kind of logic: a formal, sculptural logic and poetic logic. It is a conceptual and physical process of building and taking away at the same time. I set out to strip the ideas and associations down to (physically and metaphorically) just the bones, exposing the life still held inside. Biographer Hannah Fink estimated that Oliver produced 290 works over a career of 22 years. Text taken from the Tarrawarra Museum of Art website who held a major exhibition of Olivers work in late 2016. You can read more about Oliver on their website and also watch two short films produced by the Gallery: https://www.twma.com.au/ex/the-sculpture-of-bronwyn-oliver/ See individual images for full credit details. Images 1 - 4: taken from Art Guide Australia, online article: The Sculpture of Bronwyn Oliver by Sarah Werkmeister, 7 Dec 2016: https://artguide.com.au/the-sculpture-of-bronwyn-oliver

19.01.2022 We have a fantastic new Life Study intensive workshop running this September. The Figure and Space with guest teacher Ingrid Morley. Over 4 days you will have the chance to work with a live model and you will work in wax. You will explore visual tension, negative space, scale, proportion and balance. Take home a small work in wax or cast your work in bronze. For more info and to book: https://www.tbsss.org.au/class/figure-and-space-2020/ Places limited!

17.01.2022 Attention sculptors! You've got until 19 July to get your entries in for the Wollombi Sculpture in the Vineyards Festival. There is a total of $34,000 prizes on offer. Head to their website for more info: https://sculptureinthevineyards.com.au/

16.01.2022 Welcome to Term 3! A warm hello to all new and returning students, we are looking forward to seeing your friendly faces back in the Studio. Special shout out to our NEW Monday Eve Workshop which begins tonight.

16.01.2022 Another couple of fantastic images from the Tom Bass archive

16.01.2022 Sharing a WIP shot from Wednesday EVE student Matt from his first week back in the Studio! If youre a student this term, dont forget to share your pics and tag us. We love seeing what youre creating in the Studio. #regram @howbisaro Finally returned to sculpture class after COVID lockdown months ago.. Picking up where I left off with the skull and got some advice on the brain..

14.01.2022 Introducing 'Sculpture Club Journal' a new space to explore all things sculpture, a place to share ideas and come together as a community! We very much welcome comments and discussion. If you have a submission for a feature, we would love to hear from you! Visit: https://www.sculptureclubjournal.com/

14.01.2022 Sharing a few pictures from our recent 2 Day Alabaster Carving Workshop. Everyone had a great time learning from Alabaster carving specialist and sculptor Carol Crawford and working with the beautiful Italian Alabaster stone. Several of the participants had never carved Alabaster before and everyone achieved great results - either with a completed sculpture or something to finish at home. @ Tom Bass Sculpture Studio School

14.01.2022 Some inspiration for your Monday! Amazing photos of one of our favourites - Dame Barbara Hepworth. #regram @artgirlrising An early pioneer of abstract sculpture, Barbara Hepworth is best known for her ovoid, biomorphic creations carved out of stone. Though her early works were more explicitly figurative, many of Hepworths completely abstract works are recognized as vaguely feminine, given their smooth, rounded contours. One such sculpture, Pierced Form (1931), features in...novative use of negative space in the form of a hole through its center, which would become a frequent motif in Hepworths oeuvre. Later in her career Hepworth started making brass works, comprising thin curved planes and fine lines of string. Via: @artsy #togetherwerise #risewithus #risewithher #artgirlrising See more

12.01.2022 A big congratulations to Wednesday EVE student Chris Atichian who was announced as one of the Open Category Winners of the Northern Beaches Art Prize 2020 and awarded $1,000. Pictured is Chris winning sculpture Uncertain Future, hand carved Calacatta marble, 300 x 300mm. About the sculpture: The work represents discarded, crumpled paper. From marble to paper, like reverse alchemy. An attempt to capture the moment of calm following destruction. A metaphor for the current ...state of the Paris Climate Agreement, and an outlook on global warming and our inability to act decisively on climate change. Made during the Covid-19 lockdown. Judge's comments: The ephemeral medium of paper skilfully rendered with the enduring materiality of marble a metaphor for the precariousness of our current moment. Will we crumple like paper or stand firm as stone against anthropogenic crises such as climate change?

12.01.2022 Term 4 bookings are now open! You can book online via our website: https://www.tbsss.org.au/classes/ or give the office a call on 02 9565 4851. We have reduced class sizes allowing for physical distancing in the Studio. Be sure to book soon so you dont miss out. Come sculpt with us!

12.01.2022 Cant make it to the snow this year but still want to have some winter fun? We have only a couple of places left in our Ice Carving Workshop with guest teacher and ice sculptor Anne Marie Taberdo running on Sunday 5 July. Have fun working against time using various carving techniques and ice adapted hand tools to create your unique sculpture! Book now: https://www.tbsss.org.au/classes/special-workshops/ @ Tom Bass Sculpture Studio School

11.01.2022 Announcing an exciting first for TBSSS - a NEW online workshop with wonderful guest teacher Ingrid Morley! Zoom in on the Self-Portrait in 3D - the mystery of the self-image has held a powerful place in art history, expressing, exploring and questioning ideas about identity through time, from the Renaissance (Bernini), German expressionists (Kathe Kollwitz - pictured) and the painter Frida Kahlo. The challenge is to find the basic 3D structure in clay through observation f...rom your mirror image. Set yourself up for your self-portrait, control light and collect essential information to inform your work including the use of tools. Construct an armature for the self-portrait and then work in clay. Form up and complete a self-portrait with two online group meetings to book end the course and weekly one-on-one online assistance in the form of image exchanges and feedback over 7 weeks. You may choose to work with or without an armature, as you can work in relief (2D) or free standing in 3D. This choice can be discussed with Ingrid. Your final work can either be kiln fired or cast in plaster from a plaster mould. Sound interesting, for further info, fees and to enrol, head to our website: https://www.tbsss.org.au//zoom-in-on-the-self-portrait-in/

11.01.2022 Today from the archive we bring you Tom Bass P&O sculpture which he was commissioned in 1962 by shipping company P&O to create a sculpture for their building at 55 Hunter Street, Sydney. Originally commissioned to be carved into the granite facade of the P&O building, Tom Bass more affordable solution was to fabricate his wall fountain sculpture in copper and then have it installed. It was installed in 1963 and the building was opened by the Prime Minister at the time Sir ...Robert Menzies. As award winning sculptor and architect Richard Goodwin noted in his 2013 Tom Bass Memorial Address, the P&O Wall Fountain bit into the Hunter Street building, making it one of Australias greatest public sculptures. When Richard was a young artist, the wall fountain inspired him in his own practice. The sculpture became much talked about soon after its installation when editors of OZ magazine published on the cover of its magazine a photograph of the fountain serving as a urinal. Editor Richard Neville and his colleagues were charged with obscenity and put on trial. Tom Bass was called for the defence and had pleasure in commenting that he thought it witty and a fair comment. This historic sculpture, is currently in storage due to the expansion of the Sydney metro and the demolition of the P&O building. Toms wife Margo Hoekstra, TBSSS Board members and members of the Bass family are working to make sure that this important sculpture is installed in a new position in the city once building work is complete. Well be sure to share the new location, when we know more! Browse the images to see the sculpture when it was at 55 Hunter St, the front cover of the Oz and also the original Marquette Tom made. @ Sydney, Australia

09.01.2022 A shelf full of sculptures waiting patiently for their sculptors to return. TBSSS opening soon for workshops again! Many workshops sold out - so be quick to get your place. Come make sculpture with us in Term 3!

09.01.2022 TBSSS Student Alessandros WIP.

07.01.2022 We thought wed share a short written piece from one of our teachers Monika Scarrabelotti about creating sculpture during isolation. Thank you Monika for sharing your experience. Over the isolation period from March to May I had the privilege of staying at my childhood home in Werri Beach. I set up a small studio space in the garage and kept myself busy mold making and casting. Using a silicone mold has meant that I have been able to cast the same figure many times over, a...ltering the composition slightly each time, and casting in different materials. The repetitive practice of casting has been soothing and meditative, easing my mind in this stressful period. The ability to reproduce the same piece has also given me the freedom to experiment without fear. Casting the sculpture in micro-crystalline wax was very successful, and has encouraged me try my hand at resin. More recently I have been casting test pieces: cement fondue mixed with different sand and shells from local beaches, as well as using found objects: shells, bones and driftwood in my practice. I feel very grateful to have been given the opportunity to turn this strange period of isolation into an inspirational little art residency. I have been influenced by the dramatic landscape around me, rugged coastline, high cliffs, rolling hills and the crashing ocean, as well as the nostalgia of returning to old childhood haunts. And can feel my work shifting and responding as a result of my time spent here and am excited to see where it takes me. Monika Scarrabelotti, May 2020.

06.01.2022 Good news! Bookings for Term 3 will open to the public this afternoon. Workshops are limited to 8 students (due to social distancing measures) - so don't delay, book in and come sculpt with us! https://www.tbsss.org.au/classes/

05.01.2022 Only one spot left in our upcoming 4 day Life Study Intensive The Figure and Space with guest teacher Ingrid Morley running 28 Sep - 1 Oct. A chance to work in wax, with a live model and with a geometric shape to consider the body in relation to space. At the end of the four days you will take home a small work in wax or have your work cast in bronze. Want to know more? Visit our website: https://www.tbsss.org.au/class/figure-and-space-2020/

05.01.2022 Student: Why does the silt trap smell so much? Tom Bass: Its full of dead sculptures.

05.01.2022 Read our latest eNewsletter: https://mailchi.mp/tbsss/july-2020-enews

04.01.2022 Two places have come up for our previously sold out 5 Week Limestone Workshop running in October with wonderful guest teacher Paul Hopmeier. Click here to find out more and to book - https://www.tbsss.org.au/cla/limestonecarvingwithpaulhop19/ quick sticks!

03.01.2022 Come create sculpture with us! Term 4 Workshops filling fast, don't miss out.

03.01.2022 Attention sculptors! Entries now open for HarbourSculpture 2020.

01.01.2022 August 2020 eNews: ONLINE Self-Portraiture Workshop, What Our Teachers Are Up To, Student Profile, Term 4 Life Study, Opportunities and more! - https://mailchi.mp/tbsss/july-2020-enews-4396006