DEFIANCE GALLERY PRESENTS THE 21ST 6X6X6 INCH MINIATURE SCULPTURE SHOW
The miniature sculpture show is now in its 21st year and embodies Defiance Gallery’s dedication to exhibiting sculpture and introducing sculpture to art lovers and the broader community. The exhibition creates a challenge for the the artist (whose works are otherwise not restricted by scale) and acts as a catalyst for ingenuity, imagination and great sculpture. Through this exhibition the artists have been able to explore and understand the process of making miniature sculpture. It also provides great insight into how a wide variety of sculptors are working today, providing a cross section of works with a diversity of subject, medium and theory. The exhibition was created to represent the entirety of the sculpture community, from leading and mid career established artists to the emerging and up and coming. Over the years the exhibition has become highly anticipated by artists and collectors alike and creates a buzz of excitement in the sculpture world. The concept of the Miniature Show was conceived by director, Campbell Robertson-Swann in 1996. He needed to determine dimensions large enough to work within, to execute an idea on a small scale. These measurements needed to be smaller than a maquette. He discussed with many practicing sculptors, how small can a sculpture be? What would be the ideal size for a miniature sculpture? The consensus was 6x6x6 inches.
The Miniature Sculpture Show has a dedicated group of participating artists, some of whom have been part of the exhibition since the beginning. The show also has a devoted following of collectors, some whose collections number in the hundreds. One such collector is Michael Nock, who in 2002, with great vision, bought the entire miniature show as a time capsule of Australian sculpture. Everyone was left scratching their heads at the opening, when the doors opened to 96 red dots. The exhibition was named the Lady Ethel Nock Sculpture Collection and tracks an important lineage of sculpture including works by Lyndon Dadswell, Robert Klippel, Ron Robertson-Swann, David Wilson and Tom Bass. Works have arrived straight from the foundry, too hot to handle without gloves. Other works have arrived with a license to use native bird feathers. Works have been posted from around the world and this year has been no different as we received more than 150 works from 64 artists during a global pandemic.
Left to right Willemina Villari, Rock Pool I, 2021, rock, wire, rice paper, paint, shellac, 13 x 12 x 14 cm, $590 Dave Teer, Old head new growth 2, 2021, mixed media, 15 x 13.5 x 7 cm, $1250 Fiona Watson, Bustle, 2015, bronze unique, 18 x 11.5 x 8 cm, $1600 Peter Read, Vegan, 2021, timber, paint, 15 x 15 x 15 cm, $370 Tim Kyle, You’re my best friend, bronze ed of 6, 18.5 x 12 x 8.5 cm, $3000
Left to right Dave Teer, Old head new growth 3, 2021, mixed media, 15 x 9.5 x 10 cm, $1250 Marguerite Derricourt, No Fly Zone, 2021, copper wire and mesh, 12.5 x 12.5 x 7.6 cm, $950 Adrian Lockhart, Tasmania, 2021, copper, aluminum, rivets, 15 x 25 x 12 cm, $475 Adrian Lockhart, Flight Bird, 2021, copper, rivets, 15 x 15 x 15 cm, $400 Felix Feneley, Dancers, 2021, bronze and marble, ed 1 of 5, 15 x 10 x 10 cm, $850
Left to right Jim Croke, Tower of Power, 2012, steel, 12 x 10 x 10 cm, $1500 Jim Croke, Back Burn, 2021, steel, glass, Bakelite, 13 x 13 x 13 cm, $2500 Duncan Wilson, Teal, 2021, plaster, ceramic, Huon Pine, acrylic paint, 15 x 12 x 15 cm, $550 Kendal Murray, Chicken Dinner, Pick a winner, 2021, mixed media assemblage, 8.5 x 8 x 8.5 cm, $1680
Left to right Ivor Fabok, Duo, 2021, wood, acrylic paint, 15.2 x 15.2 x 15.2 cm, $900 Christopher Hodges, Little Red Tower (for a big square), 2021, wood, 15 x 15 x 15 cm, $900 Christopher Hodges, Small Red Tower (for a big square), 2021, wood, 15 x 15 x 15 cm, $900
Julia Martin, Hello! said the bird. Hullo? Said the man, 2021, mixed media, 14 x 15.2 x 15.2 cm, $830
Winner of the Cat Palace Emerging Artist Award
Left to right Derry Messum, Camouflage, 2021, ceramic, acrylic, 16 x 15 x 15 cm, $1500 Julia Martin, Einstein needed creativity too, 2020, mixed media, 8 x 16.5 x 24 cm, $830 Alexandra Mills, Standing Up, 2021, salvaged timber offcuts, tie wire, 15 x 15 x 5 cm, $950 Julia Martin, Ce n’est pas un oiseau, 2021, mixed media, 14.5 x 16 x 13 cm, $530 John Spatchurst, Cockscomb, 2021, mixed media, 15.5 x 15.5 x 10 cm, $750
Anita Johnson, Teeter Totter, 2020, tobacco pipe, bleached coral and rod, 10.5 x 11 x 9 cm, $1200
Winner of the Caldwell Family Sculpture Award
Left to right Randall Sinnamon, Fly me to the moon, 2021, bronze, 14 x 9 x 12 cm, $2500 Amanda Harrison, Circles of Life III, 2019, Bronze, ed AP, 15.2 x 13.5 x 9.5 cm, $1600 Nicolette Eisdell, Diorama II, 2019, ceramic, 13 x 15 x 17 cm, $750 Jan King, Aftermath, 2021, steel, zinc plated and painted, 13.5 x 12.5 x 15 cm, $1600
Left to right Marguerite Derricourt, End with no end, 2021, copper and bronze, 15.2 x 12.5 x 5 cm, $1500 Marguerite Derricourt, Journey, 2021, copper and bronze, 15.2 x 15.2 x 7.6 cm, $1500 Anita Johnson, Between light and dark, 2021, salvaged objects, bronze cast of light bulb, 15 x 7 x 4,5 cm, $1600 Paul Hopmeier, Spike’s House, 2021, Wood, painted, 13.5 x 15.2 x 15.2 cm, $2200 John Spatchurst, 6 Peg, 2021, mixed media, 15.5 x 15.5 x 13 cm, $750
Left to right Mary Kayser, Fly Fishing 2, 2012, stainless steel and Jarrah, ed 2 of 8, 13.5 x 15.2 x 4 cm, $880 John Spatchurst, Crossfire, 2021, mixed media, 15.5 x 15.5 x 10 cm, $750 Deborah Beck, Deconstructed, 2021, wood, lino, leather and oil paint on wooden panel, 15 x 16 x 5.5 cm, $700 Deborah Beck, Afterlife, 2021, Oil paint and mixed media on masonite, 15 x 15 x 2.5 cm, $700
Left to right Annabel Mason, Bush Sticks, 2021, welded steel, 14 x 12.7 x 5.7 cm, $580 Willemina Villari, Rock Pool II, 2021, rock, wire, rice paper, paint, 9 x 13 x 15 cm, $590 Derry Messum, Young Mona, 2021, ceramic, acrylic, 17.5 x 13 x 9 cm, $1500 Jan King, Sea Surge, 2021, waxed steel, 11.5 x 12.5 x 12.5 cm, $1600 Sallwa Hourani, Contemplation, 2021, bronze, unique, 10 x 15 x 8 cm, $1850
Left to right Duncan Wilson, Grey, 2021, plaster, ceramic, Huon pine, acrylic paint, 15 x 12 x 15 cm, $550 Sallwa Hourani, Warship, 2021, steel, 14 x 15 x 6 cm, $950 Clara Hali, Bather (after Degas), 2001, Bronze, ed 4 of 6, $3750 Mary Kayser, Tackle Trolley, 2012, stainless steel and Jarrah, ed 2 of 8, $1150 Willemina Villari, Postcard, 2021, wire, rice paper, paint, shellac, 12 x 15 x 7 cm, $590 Ivor Fabok, Trigon, 2021, wood, acrylic paint, 15.2 x 15.2 x 15.2 cm, $900
IN MINIATURE Small sculptures have lived with us for millennia as tokens of devotion, of attachment, of faith, and of quite everyday, domestic activity. Now in its twenty-first iteration, the Defiance Gallery '6x6x6 inch Miniature Sculpture Show' incorporates over 150 works of sculpture at the modest scale its title suggests, spanning subjects and purposes both timeless and uniquely contemporary. From Paleolithic Venus figurines, whose creation dates from 26,000 to 21,000 years ago, to the Marian relics of contemporary Catholicism, childhood toys, and the kitsch of the souvenir shop, sculpture at a small scale is embedded in the material and psychic fabric of our lives. Sometimes, as in the totemic object or the religious relic, these small objects are – or become – soaked through with a sort of agentic power, acting upon us in ways variously psychological, social, or more broadly (to the believer, at least) causative. In other cases, it is we who act upon the objects, as in the scene of the child playing out scenarios with their toy figurines, dressing up their dolls, or building small, benign, but imaginatively potent replica scenes. The small looms large, that is, in our individual lives, and our life as a species, right from the very start. The twenty-first Miniature Sculpture Show at Defiance Gallery hosts over 150 such small but powerful works, a number of which are lauded in the awards which accompany the show. Kate Stehr, for instance, has won an Artist Residency at the Barnhouse by John Normyle, Anita Larkin the Caldwell Family Sculpture Prize and a Seal Rocks Residency, Julia Martin the acquisitive Cat Palace Emerging Artist Prize and Clara Hali the Lady Nock Sculpture Prize.
Available to view online during Sydney’s lockdown, the small works are framed – somewhat eerily, and somewhat entirely fittingly – in image tiles which reflect their scale. In the space however, their scale surprises and delights, and the installation shots are certainly worth attending to. There’s a great deal of variation in form, in medium, and in tone across the works, which populate the expansive space – white and modernist as it is – with a celebratory density. Works, across the show, encompass figuration and the functional, abstraction and an array of materialities, the natural and the technological, and a set of conceptual concerns ranging from faith and scientific knowledge to the body, the animal world, and the possibilities of pure form. There is so much about smallness here: to see, to consider, and to live alongside.
During Sydney’s lockdown, many of the realms in which the small sculptural object operates – the domestic, the emotional, the spiritual – have loomed large in both public and many private consciousnesses. Perhaps, indeed, this is a perfect time to consider the role of the small stuff in our imaginative, and our quotidian, lives. ARTIST PROFILE, 2021
Left to right Stephen King, Grid Study, 2021, Iron bark, 15 x 14 x 15 cm, $3300 Stephen King, Grid Study II, 2021, Deodar, 14 x 14 x 14 cm, $3300 Stephen King, Grid Study III, 2021, Tallowood, 15 x 15 x 15 cm, $3300
Clara Hali, Tectonic Hips, 2016, bronze, ed 2 of 9, 12 x 16 x 11 cm, $3750
Winner of the Lady Nock Sculpture Prize
Left to right Bruce Radke, Tarantella, 2021, stainless steel, unique, 15 x 15 x 15 cm, $1900 Peter Powditch, 51, 2009, mixed media, 16 x 6 x 6 cm, $2500 Peter Powditch, 50, 2009, mixed media, 12 x 6 x 6 cm, $2500 Richard Goodwin, Bomb, 2021, marquette, plastic, timber 1:100 scale, 15 x 15 x 15 cm, $750 Edward Milan, Trojan, 2021, wood, paint, nails, 14 x 9.5 x 5.5 cm, $750 Peter Powditch, 15, 2009, mixed media, 12 x 15 x 7 cm, $2500
Kate Stehr, Inclination, 2021, timber, 14.2 x 14 x 14.9 cm, $1575
Winner of the Artist Residency at the Barnhouse Maffra – supported by John Normyle
Left to right Bruce Radke, To Dream!, 2021, silicone bronze, unique, 13.5 x 11 x 14 cm, $2300 Derry Messum, Cocoon, 2021, ceramic, acrylic, 15 x 14 x 14 cm, $1500 Kate Stehr, Inclination, 2021, timber, 14.2 x 14 x 14.9 cm, $1575 Ian Scott, Man and Car III, 2020, bronze, unique, 7 x 15 x 7 cm, $1200 Dave Teer, Old head new growth 1, 2021, mixed media, 13.5 x 11 x 9 cm, $1250 Ian Scott, Man and Dog II, 2020, bronze unique, 15 x 15 x 15 cm, $1200 Janik Bouchette, Summer Kiss, 2021, mild steel, 11 x 11 x 11 cm, $680 Emily Valentine, Cubed Lorikeet, 2020, lorikeet feathers, taxidermy and mixed media, 15 x 15 x 15 cm, $3250
[It] requires an entirely different mindset to make a miniature work that manages to be something more than a knick-knack. Take away the physical impressions of size and weight and sculpture has to find another way of impressing itself upon the viewer. Some of the most inventive solutions have come from artists such as Michael Buzacott and Jan King, who have made brilliant small works that are stylistically different from their largerscale pieces. Robert Bell's abstract constructions are highly skilful exercises, while the figurative pieces of artists such as Randall Sinnamon and Sallwa Hourani combine humour and tactility. JOHN MCDONALD, SMH, 2011
Left to right Kate Stehr, Declination, 2021, timber, 15.1 x 12.9 x 13.5 cm, $1575 Paul Bacon, Range, 2021, mild steel, 12 x 15 x 5 cm, $750 Derry Messum, Refugees, 2021, ceramic, acrylic, 15 x 15 x 15 cm, $1500 Kate Stehr, Canting, 2021, timber, 14.6 x 14 x 15 cm, $1575 Bruce Radke, Gavotte, 2021, stainless steel, 17 x 11 x 15 cm, $1900
Left to right Sam Valenz, See Saw, 2020, bronze, 20 x 20 x 6 cm, $1150 Tim Corne, Fibonacci’s dark skies, 2019, digital print and 22K gold leaf on Perspex, 13 x 11 x 3 cm, $840 Brian Koerber, JJ, 2021, painted steel, 12 x 15 x 13 cm, $850 Jennifer Green, Hidden Dimension, 2017, painted steel, 14 x 14 x 12 cm, $350 Kirsteen Pieterse, Feather and Wedge, 2021, plywood and stainless steel, 15 x 15 x 15 cm, $4400
Left to right Sam Valenz, Table Piece, 2020, steel and bronze, 20 x 22 x 13 cm, $1200 Angus Adameitis, Eleven, 2021, painted polymer and steel, 15 x 14 x 15 cm, $1100 Paul Bacon, Woodford Bay Baths, 2021, steel, oil, wax, 15 x 15 x 6 cm, $750
Left to right Tim Corne, Vogel’s dark stars III, 2018, redrafted ambrotype with reflective film and gold leaf, 7.5 x 12.6 x 1.4 cm, $720 (top) Tim Corne, Galactic Heart, 2016, redrafted ambrotype with reflective film, 7.4 x 12.4 x 1.4 cm, $500 (bottom) Tom Arthur, DAS Maria and the Royal Camelian, 2021, snake skin, gilded stone, camelian, oak and cedar in Perspex box, 15 x 15 x 15 cm, $3800
Left to right Nicole O’Regan, Lockdown, 2021, green slate, galvanized wire, mild steel, 15 x 15 x 8 cm, $3750 Tim Corne, Mapping the cosmos, 2018, redrafted ambrotype with reflective film and gold leaf, 15 x 15 x 8 cm, $9.4 x 17 x 1.2 cm, $720 Nicolette Eisdell, Diorama III, 2019, ceramic, 11 x 13 x 12 cm, $750 Clara Hali, Evening Bath, 2001, bronze, unique, 9 x 13 x 11 cm, $3750 Jan King, Lets Keep Dancing, 2021, waxed steel, 14 x 15 x 15 cm, $1600 Kendal Murray, Best Friend, Dividend, 2021, mixed media assemblage, 15 x 9 x 12 cm, $3200 Angus Adameitis, Twenty Two, 2021, painted polymer and steel, 14 x 15.2 x 15 cm, $1100
Left to right Anita Johnson, Mon petit pigeon, 2021, bronze, ed of 3, 13 x 13 x 8 cm, $3200 Emily Valentine, Peapuss, 2021, peacock feathers and mixed media, 15 x 13 x 10 cm, $1200 Janik Bouchette, Emboite, 2021, timber, 11 x 11.5 x 11 cm, $680 Richard Goodwin, Syria No 9, 2021, marquette, concrete, glass 1:100 scale, 15 x 15 x 15 cm, $750 Emily Valentine, Pugpup, 2021, various feathers and mixed media, 14 x 14 x 9 cm, $1200
The Miniature Show has become Defiance’s biggest event of the year, no irony intended. It generates a regular feeding frenzy among collectors striving to acquire the best pieces from this collection in which everything is limited to 6 X 6 X 6 inches. Many of the artists from Sculpture by the Sea are represented, along with well-known sculptors such as Ron Robertson-Swann and Paul Hopmeier, who have each contributed stand-out works. Among the younger sculptors, Robert Bell and Dave Teer are perhaps the best performers, but the diversity of the exhibition makes it difficult to indulge in fine discriminations. JOHN MCDONALD, SMH, 2009
Left to right David Wilson, Shoreline with skysteps, 2021, painted bronze, 15 x 15 x 15 cm, $2200 Penelope McKeown, Embrace, 2021, steel, 13 x 16 x 13 cm, $950 Sam Valenz, Sleeper, 2021, bronze, synthetic sandstone, 19 x 22 x 10 cm, $1050 Lea Ferris, Joy, let’s dance, 2019, bronze, marble base, ed 2 of 7, 16.5 x 16 x 7 cm, $3300 Tim Kyle, Johberg, 2016, bronze, ed of 6, 19.5 x 9 x 7.5 cm, $2500 David Wilson, Wilderness Wish, 2021, painted bronze, 15 x 15 x 15 cm, $2200 Annie Herron, An Apple a Day, 2021, bronze, old books, 15.2 x 15.2 x 10 cm, $1250
Left to right Annie Herron, Pear on box, 2021, bronze and stone, 10 x 5 x 9 cm, $600 Felix Feneley, Broken Nose 2, 2019, bronze and steel, ed 4 of 5, 14 x 4 x 6 cm, $750 Felix Feneley, Broken Nose 1, 2017, bronze and steel, ed 5 of 5, 15 x 5 x 6 cm, $750 Alison Coates, Porifera, 2021, galvanized wire and copper ribbon, 15 x 12 x 11.5 cm, $900 Paul Hopmeier, Portrait of a boot as an Old Man, 2021, megapoxy, 13.5 x 15.2 x 15.2 cm, $1800 Sam Valenz, Equus Middle Eye, 2021, bronze, steel and wood, 24 x 30 x 8 cm, $1100 Kevin Norton, Gate, 2012, stainless steel, 17 x 14.5 x 6.5 cm, $3000 Sallwa Hourani, Resting, 2021, bronze, unique, 6 x 5 x 18 cm, $1750 Duncan Wilson, Pink, 2021, plaster, ceramic, Huon pine and acrylic paint, 15 x 12 x 15 cm, $550
Left to right Fiona Watson, Tango, 2015, bronze, unique, 19 x 10 x 7 cm, $1600 Randall Sinnamon, Sweet Vanity, 2021, bronze, 12 x 9 x 6 cm, $2500 Alison Coates, Mycelium, 2021, wire, cotton, mixed media, 15 x 14 x 12 cm, $900 Mary Kayser, The Linch Pin, 2012, stainless steel and Jarrah with granite, 13.5 x 14 x 14.5 cm, $1400 Richard Goodwin, Syria No 10, 2021, marquette, plastic, 1:100 scale, 15 x 15 x 15 cm, $750
Left to right Brian Koerber, Tas, 2021, painted steel, 13.5 x 15 x 13 cm, $850 Fiona Watson, Sentinel I, 2015, bronze, unique, 17.5 x 11 x 9 cm, $1600 Peter Bartlett, Potato Sack Woman, 2021, bronze, 15 x 12 x 10 cm, $1200 Leonard Sabol, Through, 2021, gold stainless steel, ed of 3, 15.2 x 15.2 x 15.2 cm, $5500
Left to right Jennifer Green, The Guardian, 2015, bronze, unique, 15 x 13 x 9 cm, $900 Nicolette Eisdell, Bird on hand, 2018, Bronze, 12 x 8 x 5 cm, $850 Willemina Villari, Holiday, 2021, wire, paint, rice paper, shellac, 15 x 15 x 14 cm, $590 Jennifer Green, Vitality, 2017, painted steel, 10 x 15 x 12 cm, $350
Left to right Tim Kyle, About Malcolm, 2016, bronze, ed of 5, 14 x 9 x 8 cm, $2500 Angus Adameitis, 2021, painted polymer and steel, 15.2 x 15.2 x 15.2 cm, $1100 Jim Croke, Round Peg – Square Hole, 2012, steel, 10 x 15 x 11 cm, $3000
Left to right Annabel Lahz, Conversations, Little Guy I, II, III, 2021, ceramic, various dimensions, $500 set Annie Herron, Booked Up, 2021, bronze, old books, 15.2 x 15.2 x 10 cm, $950 Clara Hali, Bather in a shallow tub, 2002, bronze, ed 2 of 2, 10 x 18 x 11 cm, $3750
Left to right Campbell Robertson-Swann, Pouring Rain, 2012, stainless steel, 15 x 14 x 11 cm, $3300 David Wilson, The Comet, 2013, bronze, painted, 14.5 x 15 x 12 cm, $2200 Derry Messum, Mother and Child, 2021. ceramic, acrylic, 14 x 10 x 9 cm, $1500
Left to right Ivor Fabok, Trio Piece, 2021, wood, acrylic paint, 15.2 x 15.2 x 15.2 cm, $900 Kendal Murray, Flirt Alert, 2021, mixed media assemblage, 8.5 x 8.75 x 8.5 cm, $1680 Lesley Prosser, Untitled, 2013, steel painted, 15 x 15 x 8 cm, $650
Left to right Gary Deirmendjian, Nefertiti’s Broken Lips – black, 2020, cold worked tinted resin, unique, 9 x 8 x 9 cm, $950 Emily Valentine, Lorihound, 2019, lorikeet feathers and mixed media, 7 x 10 x 5.5 cm, $450 Ian Scott, Celebration, 2020, bronze, unique, 15 x 15 x 5 cm, $1200
Left to right Ingrid Morley, Joie de vivre, 2021, ceramic, 15 x 15 x 15 cm, $1800 Adrian Lockhart, Figure, 2021, aluminium, rivets, 15 x 15 x 15 cm, $400 Lee Bethel, The trinkets at her belt, 2021, ripped paper on paper constructions, 15 x 15 x 15 cm, $550
Left to right Max Dingle, Now I have found you my Anopheles, 2021, ceramic, timber, acrylic and paper, 14 x 5 x 10 cm, $650 Max Dingle, Incomplete Circle and straight drop? Yet I know I shall be raised up, 2021, mixed media, 11 x 15 x 13 cm, $650 Paul Selwood, The Chair, 2021, steel painted, 14 x 12 x 10.5 cm, $3900 Paul Selwood, Interior, 2021, steel painted, 13 x 3 x 15 cm, $5500
Left to right Di Holdsworth, King, 2021, assemblage with miniature music box, 11 x 4.5 x 4.5 cm, $950 Di Holdsworth, All At Sea, 2021, kinetic music box assemblage, 13.5 x 10 x 9 cm, $1350 Di Holdsworth, The Anarchist, 2021, kinetic music box assemblage, 9 x 11 x 11 cm, $1350
Left to right Akira Kamada, Trapped III, 2021, mixed media, 13 x 15 x 15 cm, $200 Akira Kamada, Trapped I, 2021, mixed media, 11 x 15 x 15 cm, $200 Akira Kamada, Trapped II, 2021, mixed media, 11 x 15 x 15 cm, $200
Jennifer Green, Intertwine 2, 2020, painted steel, 9 x 12 x 12 cm, $350 (top left) Jennifer Green, Intertwine 1, 2021, painted steel, 10 x 11 x 12cm, $350 (top right) Jennifer Green, Nightfall, 2021, painted steel, 13 x 15 x 11 cm, $400 (bottom left) Jennifer Green, Midnight, 2021, painted steel, 10 x 15 x 11 cm, $400 (bottom right)
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Photography Installation images and works in situ by Anna Kucera Individual work images all courtesy of the artists
Thank you to all the representing galleries involved in the Miniature Sculpture Show Arthouse Gallery – Kendal Murray Australian Galleries – Richard Goodwin Dickerson Gallery – Derry Messum King Street on William Gallery – Paul Selwood Maunsell Wickes Gallery – Alexandra Mills, Annie Herron Stella Downer Fine Art – Di Holdsworth Utopia Galleries – Christopher Hodges, Kirsteen Pieterse
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