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InformSQ Newsletter February 2018
www.sculptorsqld.org.au [email protected]
Message from the President Welcome to all members and friends of Sculptors Queensland in this its 49th Year. I follow in the footsteps of so many wonderful presidents dedicated to the ideals of supporting and promoting sculpture and sculptors and providing a point of contact. We anticipate 2018 to be another full and exciting year with the highlight being the Annual Mt Coot-tha gardens exhibition 18th, 19th 20th May with Julie Donaldson taking on the role as Exhibition co-ordinator from Cameron Eaton who has done a wonderful job over the last two years.
A big thank you to all those 2017 committee members who worked to continue the wonderful work initiated by the Shillams and the initial committee of 1969. Thanks to Dr Rhyl Hinwood as our Patron for her support of all initiatives of the society. We are very fortunate that many of the talented, dedicated and hard working members have remained. Thanks to Bill Gale retiring President, for heading another successful year, and Susan Margaret retiring newsletter editor who has provided us with well researched, informative newsletters for many years. A big thank you to our new committee members who have stepped forward to ensure that the goals and aims of the Society continue to be fulfilled. We welcome to the committee Hermann Shraut as Librarian and general members Carolyn Watson, Stephanie Mann and Natalia Smith. This is your Society and its effectiveness relies on the effort of all members. We are looking for a newsletter editor. Towards the end of February we will be holding a Working Bee to clean the Shed to make it a pleasant environment for members to meet and work. At this time we will also be numbering and working on plinths and doing a stocktake. Watch for news of this date. The first Forum of the year is on Feb 6th .We look forward to welcoming new and old members and visitors to what promises to be a very interesting and informative night.
Ros Haydon
Forum Feb 6th 7.30pm
Frederick Berjot – from Paris to Paradise. Hear about his work, his new Brisbane gallery and upcoming exhibition. Where? At The Shed behind the Old Museum. Bring a plate and join us for an interesting informative
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Feburary Speaker Frederic Berjot,
French born Sculptor has recently moved to Brisbane and opened “The New Urban Gallery” in Woolloongabba. This talented visual artist was part of a unique collective pulling together to run the Urban Paradise Gallery in the heart of Surfers Paradise, that provided a much-needed space for gifted local talents to display and sell their artworks. Frederic has lived and exhibited in New York before coming to Australia. He studied sculpture at the National Art School Sydney. Gold Coast sculptor Frederic Berjot started the Laughing Gallery in 1990 in Paddington Sydney by selling custom made body casting and his Tribes figurines at the Paddington Market
Among his many other achievements, he has been president of the Gold Coast Art-Festival since 2011, a featured sculptor in SWELL exhibitions and worked at Village Roadshow Studios – one recent movie being
Thor. This should be another inspiring and informative evening. https://fredericberjot.com/
ACTIVITIES AT THE SHED First Tuesday of every month 7:30-9:30 pm
Monthly forums are presented in a relaxed atmosphere where invited sculptors discuss aspects of their art. These forums are open to the public and all interested parties are
welcome.
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PHILLIP PIPERIDES the NUDE Exhibition at Anthea Polson Gallery, Marina Mirage Shopping Centre, Main Beach Opening Feb 24th 2-5pm - Mar 10th
During Phillip’s recent travels through Europe he was impressed by the great number of monumental statues that adorn the plazas. He recognised how the general populace became unwittingly immersed in art as they conducted their daily lives amidst them. Inspirational as this was, and notwithstanding the many monumental public commissions he too had made back in Australia, Piperides felt the need to again create more intimate works. The resultant bronzes are focused on the studio model and the searching for a nuance in the pose that will evoke the essence of his subject. “More than naturalistic representations, my work is about capturing moments which occupy a space in time.”
A classical serenity embues the bronzes Piperides creates. Light gently caresses rounded volumes and lustrous, burnished surfaces. Enormous skill is required in the lengthy and painstaking processes involved in bringing mute, raw materials into a life-suffused, physical reality. Piperides meticulously presides over every stage. In the new body of work, rather than striving for a preconceived outcome, he has responded to the poses
his live models have naturally assumed. Although proportion and form are carefully observed, Piperides understands the unclothed figure as a “landscape” of soft undulations. When a particularly evocative pose manifests, it is directly rendered into a clay maquette, the tactile medium providing the means for him to “think three-dimensionally”.
Content that a preliminary maquette is aesthetically fulfilling, Piperides then enlarges it by modelling clay over a steel armature. A cast is subsequently made into which is poured molten bronze. Once cool, the cast is dismantled and innumerable hours of chipping away dross and polishing ensue. Finally a patination is applied to give the bronze its distinctive colour characteristics: deep lustrous brown, gold or greenish-black.
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One of the pleasures in viewing a Piperides’ bronze sculpture arises from our understanding that a soft malleable material has been transposed into a solid and enduring personification of a transitory mood. There is a sense of complete quietude to the self-sufficient repose of each figure. Beyond the anatomical perfection and modulated play of light, the works engage us at a deeply contemplative level.
At the outset of his career Piperides realised the absence of foundries capable of casting bronze sculptures in Australia and so during the 80’s he journeyed to Greece and Italy to investigate the casting techniques of the great masters. He returned to Brisbane with crucial knowledge and established the Perides Art Foundry, generously sharing and teaching the complex processes he’d learnt abroad. In recognition of his service to the arts and the achievements of his personal practice, Piperides was awarded a Churchill Fellowship in 1989. The grant enabled him to undertake further study in the USA, Canada and England where he explored contemporary methods of monumental casting.
JACQUELINE HOUGHTON
Piperides’ superb craftsmanship and mastery of form has earned him a great number of prestigious public commissions among which include; The Bee Gees sculpture, Redcliffe, Queensland, 2013; Images, acquired by Skywalk, Brisbane Airport, Queensland, 2013; Kokoda Track War Memorial, Ferntree Gully, Victoria, 2013; Darren Lockyer sculpture, Suncorp Stadium, Queensland, 2013; C.O. portrait bust, Sugar Cane Board, Queensland, 2013; Monument to the Vietnamese boat people, Kangaroo Point, Queensland, 2013; Walking On Glass, Brisbane Boys College, Queensland, 2011; Portrait sculpture of Hurry Murry for The Queensland Club 2011; Portrait plaque of the Hon. Ian Callinan, Justice of the High Court of Australia, 2011; Memorial to Peter Lacey, Gold Coast, 1997; the Stinson Crash Memorial, Lamington National Park, Queensland, 1997; the casting of the Australian Coat of Arms for the Australian High Commission, Papua New Guinea, 1996; the Hippocrates sculpture, Royal Brisbane Hospital Medical School, Queensland, 1996; Memorial to Banjo Patterson, Winton Shire Council, Queensland, 1994; Coat of Arms for the Commonwealth Law Courts, Brisbane, 1993; Portrait Medallions, University of Queensland, 1990; the Council Crest, Brisbane City Botanical Gardens, 1990; Bronze and Sandstone Group, Mount Isa Mines building, Brisbane, 1987 and a sculpture for Sheraton Mirage Resort, Gold Coast, 1987.
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Membership Membership now due
Go to www.sculptorsqld.org.au To renew your membership
Options are to renew online or print a form and bring to next meeting
-All details are on the website Fees increase by $20 after March 1st
If you need help, email or phone our Membership Coordinator Note that if want to exhibit at the Mt Coot-tha Members Exhibition
you must be a financial member.
10 Benefits Sculptors receive from Sculptors Queensland membership: • Opportunitytoexhibit,winawardsandsellworks
• Opportunityforcommissions
• Makingassociationandvaluablecontactwithothersculptors,sculptureorganisationsand
galleries
• Learningnewskillsviaworkshops,monthlysymposiumsandgeneraldiscussion
• Gaininginformationonotherexhibitionandcommissionopportunities
• Gaininginformationonmaterialsandprocesses
• Writtensupportforgrantapplications(manyhavebeensuccessfulandrewardingfor
members)
• Countingexperiencetowardscompletionofcourses
• Lifedrawingandlongposeclasses
• Residency(recentsuccessfulresidentartistsRyanDaffurnandScottBretonbothwinners
ofA.M.EBaleTravellingArtScholarshipofAtelierStudios,CarlyScoufos(winnerof
ShillamPrize2009).Checktheirwebsites.
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Our extensive borrowing library is available for all to browse through before the meeting. Approach our Librarian to borrow a book.
Sculptors Queensland Brisbane Sculpture Festival Exhibition Dates
June 18th,19th and 20th 2018 Members are reminded that entries close May 19th, 2018
Entry forms will be available soon on www.sculptorsqld.org.au and will be available in the March newsletter
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Stephanie Mann
Interloop is a celebration of the pause in the journeys of the commuter as they travel through Wynyard station. It is designed to bring large-scale public artworks into the city of Sydney and by doing this to bring Sydney into the realm of the art minded international city.
For some there was time to stop and stand still as the escalator transported the commuter up and down the levels of the station. Over 80 years of service preserved and honoured as a focal point floating above commuters on new travelators. It is designed to bring large-scale public artworks into the city of Sydney and by doing this to bring Sydney into the realm of the art minded international city. Although this sculpture is in a Sydney Railway station it shows us all what can be achieved when we use the materials available on site. The use of the old treads from the wooden escalators adorns the sculpture with the history and the lives of the people that used them as they passed to and fro. This sculpture is a continuation of the large sculptural pieces of Chris Fox who is an award-winning sculptor and senior lecturer in Art Processes and Architecture at Sydney University Convergence An earlier large site-specific artwork uses 370 metres of steel to represent the systems of the Global Switch’s Paris Data Centre. The sculpture of red steel tubes winds its way through the lobby and through the atrium spaces bringing the complexity of the building to centre stage with a dynamic and intuitive use of space.
Chris Fox’s sculpture Transmission graces the Corso North Lakes Queensland. Utilising 150 metres of bright blue steel tubing the sculpture is a dynamic expression of the transmission of knowledge through the present from the past and into the future.
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Photos of SQ 2017 AGM Christmas party at the Shed.
Celebrating a very successful year with patron Dr Rhyl Hinwood, hardworking committee and general
members
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Life Drawing and long pose session
Long Pose – Life Sculpting sessions (non-tutored)
Class will resume February on Sunday 4th
12:30 - 3:30pm as a trial.
Sessions especially created to provide Long Poses for sculptors.
Also great for Painting and Drawing
A friendly fun atmosphere Coffee and cake provided
$22.50 for members, $25 for non-members
Graham Marshall 0409 449 017
Life Drawing Thursday Nights 7:00-9:00pm $12.00 Members - $15.00 Non members Sculptors Queensland Shed Cnr. Of Gregory Terrace and Bowen Bridge Road, behind the old Museum. Commences Feb 1st 2018 BYO drawing materials, Easels, and some drawing boards are available to use. Contact:
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SQ Newsletter also welcomes advertisements for businesses who financially support Sculptors Queensland
The newsletter provides information, and topical news and views considered to be of interest to our readers. Nothing written here is intended as a substitute for professional advice, and no liability arising from our publication is accepted. We make all attempts to ensure the accuracy of our information.
Closing entry date
Title Exhibition dates
Contact for relevant information.
To be notified
Brookfield Sculpture Show
18th, 19th, 20th May
https://www.brookfieldshowground.com.au/
closed Petite Pieces 7th February
closed Washed Ashore 8th February
https://urbanparadise-gallery.com
1st Feb Toorak Village Sculpture Exhibition
01-10th June
http://toorakvillage.com.au/index.php?page=sculpture
04 April Stanthorpe Art prize 2D 3D
15- 22th July
http://www.stanthorpeartprize.org.au/
02 March
The HUTCHINS Australian Contemporary Art Prize
1-27th June http://www.artprize.hutchins.tas.edu.au/
15 March
Bayside Acqusitive Art Prize
17th May-8th July
http://www.artshub.com.au/
Opportunities and Exhibitions
Aspire gallery Annual Small Pieces Competition
Our first Exhibition of 2018
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Contact Details Position Name Mobile Email General Enquiries
President Ros Haydon 0420920754 [email protected] Vice President Webmaster
Cameron Eaton
0415 419 940 [email protected]
Vice President Mela Cooke 0414 384 466 [email protected]
Treasurer Jan Williams 0499 971 958 [email protected]
Minutes Secretary Shared position
Jane Prasser
[email protected] Jane Williams
Members Coordinator
Claudje Lecompte
Newsletter Editor
Ros Haydon
Exhibition Coordinator
Julie Donaldson
0419 799 933
Life Drawing Craig Fynmore 0412 538 136 [email protected] Long Pose Workshop Coordinator
Graham Marshall
0409 449 017 [email protected]
Librarian Hermann Shraut
Asst. Librarian Perry Wagner-Grose
Publicity Pat Steller [email protected]
Committee Margaret Klucis
Committee Natalia Smith
Committee Peter Steller
Frank Lambert Sculpture Prize contributors