Yet to be Dressed with Sound …
Read MoreOut of Harm
SILENCE HERE
IS NOISE ELSEWHERE
First Up
Let's first up establish that all sculpture is ultimately made to be indoors. Why go to all the trouble of making something and then leave it outside to be vandalised and subjected to the weather?
Read Moreshoes and bananas
shoes and bananas
Read MoreVarious Ups, 2010
Various Ups, 2010
Read MoreRecent Drawings 1973-2014
Going through my plan drawers,
A Selection
Self Portrait with Hair
For all the consideration of the liveliness of each figure in the bowl sculptures, often the figures are reduced to pattern and become subjugated.
Read MoreThe Portrait and The Archibald Prize
The Archibald Prize from my perspective represents the challenge to keep the genre of portraiture alive.
Read MoreStuart Purves and Michael Snape
You can only leave stuff out once the weight of excess has left you bruised and confused. I came at this work relishing the prospect of finishing the work as soon as possible after beginning it.
Read MoreOne - one
There is some confusion between naught, zero and O.
Read MorePatonga Portal
The Story came to me from realising the tree had not fallen from the cliff but had been excreted from the belly of the wall …
Read MoreFraming Matthew's Brush
Matthew's Tumber's brush, once wet with paint is dry now. The paint and the brush are one integrated object. The brush has painted itself painting.
Read MoreThe Fraught Architecture of The Blog
I will digress from my specific considerations about The Sydney School of Sculpture briefly, to consider the nature and layout of the blog which favours the present most recent posts as the most pressing posts to read.
Read MoreThat Large Subculture of Sculptors
A Response to John McDonald's Article in The Sydney Morning Herald on 5th February, 2014
Read MoreSculpture City
S H Ervin Gallery Observatory Hill – from 28 January 2014
Read MoreThe Bridge at Patonga
Employing New Materials
We think of a bridge as a device required for crossing a space.
The Snape Cut
Mangos don't bring the sense of delight they used to bring.
Read MoreExploring the blog's title
The title of the blog is The Sydney School of Sculpture. My task was to establish what that was and in so doing reinforce it, in order to make it more real, more understood and perhaps more appreciated.
Read MoreJohn Peart Tribute
John Peart was a close friend for thirty years. He died recently. I wanted to present a tribute to him at The National Art School's celebration of his life, but could not quite find the courage on the day.
Read MoreThe Precipice
These are the lyrics to one of the songs currently under construction with Terrible Music.
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