From 262 entries 37 finalists were selected for the 2011 Deakin University Contemporary Sculpture Award, with my small cast bronze sculpture, ‘I is for I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag‘, being one of them.
The exhibition runs from Wednesday 2 November to 10 December 2011 at the Deakin University in Melbourne, with the opening and awards presentation on Wednesday 2 November from 6pm to 8pm. I hope you can visit.
I appreciate feedback about my website and I’ve now updated the images for Current Works | 2010 – My Formative Vowels. Some of the images of my small cast bronze pieces had problems, which have now been resolved.
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I’m excited that my conceptual/object entry for the Palmer Sculpture Biennial 2012, ‘In Case of Emergency, Break Glass’, was successful and that I’ll be one of about 25 participating artists next year.
This exhibition is managed by Adelaide artists Greg Johns and Gavin Malone, and is truly unique. It’s sited on 400 hectares of Greg Johns’ property a little over an hour’s drive west/north/west of Adelaide in the ‘rain shadow’ area outside of Adelaide. Greg has been re-vegetating his property with indigenous species of grasses, shrubs and trees, restoring the land to what it was like before being denuded by too many sheep run on it.
Palmer is home to many of Greg’s massive outdoor sculptures. Yet the land is so vast that even his 8m tall sculptures aren’t imposing in the setting
The exhibition dates are during the latter part of March, coinciding with the Adelaide Festival. More details will be shared soon.
If you are in Sydney in late August to early September please visit the Willoughby Sculpture Prize 2011 at ‘Incinerator’, 2 Small Street, Willoughby, NSW. Willoughby is on Sydney’s north side.
My 5 part outdoor sculpture, ‘A Grove of Arboreal desalinus‘, is one of the finalists in this exhibition. I’ll post a photo once the work is installed.
The exhibition opening and awards presentation is at 3pm on Saturday 20 August. RSVP details on the flyer below.
For more details of the exhibition see the council website: http://www.willoughby.nsw.gov.au/Whats-On/willoughby-sculpture-prize-2011/
Thanks, Rick
The ‘Grove of Arboreal desalinus‘ installed:
(The above flyer prints nicely on an A4 sheet of paper if you click on it, then select ‘Print’ from your web browser.)
You’ll find a brand spanking ‘All New’ pair of sculptures by me exhibited during the 2011 South Australian Living Artist (SALA) Festival. This year’s SALA festival is ‘bigger and better’ with 4,132 South Australian artists exhibiting in 543 venues statewide.
One of the exhibitions not to be missed is called ‘Two Septics’ and anyone in Australia or the UK who is of a certain vintage will understand the reference, which we are using to refer to Rebecca Whittemore and me, two expatriate American artists in Adelaide. In this cutting-edge exhibition Rebecca is showing works from her stunning ‘Private Universe’ series of high contrast, black and white scanograms, and I’m thrilled to be exhibiting with Rebecca. Her works were most recently exhibited in the United States.
My two sculptures in ‘Two Septics’ resulted from an introspective period where I wondered what makes any artwork ‘important.’ The art world seems to be completely subjective, without an objective bone in its body. What makes an artwork important, is it exhibitions at prestige galleries, sales, reviews in art journals, or some mix of black magic and luck? Maybe I had a Bruce Nauman moment by naming my two sculptures ‘Important Work.’ Perhaps time will tell.