2011
Along the Wollombi Valley Wine Trail
From the Wollombi Valley Wine Trail ... Welcome you to Sculpture in the Vineyards. Art and wine – what a wonderful relationship! This outdoor exhibition is free and you can sample wines at cellar doors that are open daily. See sculptures from some of Australia’s most accomplished sculptors in the tranquillity and natural beauty of the vines – it is a combination that is hard to beat! Wollombi Valley gives you something that you won’t get anywhere else. The area’s award winning wines are highly sought after, yet they are not readily available in Sydney bottle shops. The boutique nature in which they are made means that the winemakers grow, pick and make their own wines – in true Hunter style. There is something humbling about tasting wine on the land from where the grapes are grown. A good wine is as much about people and place as it is about taste. Spring is a beautiful time of the year with new growth covering the vines. This makes it a perfect time to visit Sculpture in the Vineyards along the Wollombi Valley Wine Trail.
Curators Note Sandstone and timber constructions, cows, wombats, cats and dogs, blue skies, green theatres, trees with all the charms of authentic Australiana, surely this beats the white cube of a gallery, surely this is where art is meant to happen! Is this not the habitat for which sculpture is intended? With a population of under 300, the community of Wollombi can possibly boast more sculpture per capita than any other community in Australia. Welcome to Sculpture in the Vineyards, 2011. Now in its ninth year, Sculpture in the Vineyards continues to grow exponentially. 2011 saw more entries from a wider area than any other year. With exhibitors from Victoria, Sydney and across the greater region of New South Wales, as well as many familiar local Hunter faces. This years exhibition welcomes many new artists as well as familiar exhibitors who we are delighted to see return each year. 62 outdoor artworks from 50 artists were shortlisted to exhibit, furthermore another 20 smaller indoor works can be seen at the Gate Gallery indoor exhibition from the same selected artists. Each piece brings the individual concerns and ideas of its creator and each work is realised in a manner which is distinctly different to the last. Throughout the six sites we encounter a plethora of thematic preoccupation’s, personal narratives, social observations and formal studies. Together they activate Wollombi into a hub of Australian Sculpture. This is my first year with Sculpture in the Vineyards, and it’s very clear to me that this exhibition and award has multiple iconic characteristics which are incomparable to other sculpture prizes. The most obvious being the setting which offers a unique backdrop for this yearly exhibition. It is tranquil and contemplative with a myriad of options for exhibiting each artwork. With a longer duration than other sculpture prizes, the show allows
the general public and the local community to spend time with the work, returning to it, living with it, even owning it in a way. This invites more mediatation and consideration than other ‘pop-up’ sculpture shows across the country. This is one of the clear draw cards of sculpture in the Vineyards, this is furthermore enhanced by a community, lifestyle and a commitment which few other sculpture events can boast. On behalf of the artists I would like to thank the venues for their generous hospitality, they, more so than any other, must live with the art in order for this event to take place. I would like to equally thank the artists for their visions, imaginings and creations, their works skill fully conceal the years of persistence and work which brings them to the point at which we encounter them. I would like to thank the previous curator Cassandra Hard Lawrie for her early work with the show and congratulate her as she moves onto new and exciting projects and exhibitions. A great part of the 2011 exhibition is derived from her diligent work and vision. Cassandra’s mentorship and guidance helped to ensure that I was well equipped to take on the role of curator in the lead up to the opening and her continued support must be recognised. An exhibition like this may look effortless, but there are many people contributing behind the scenes which make an event like this happen. With this in mind, I would like to recognise Tara Morelos, who as the shows long running director, continues to be a driving force behind this exhibition, she was a valued support throughout the implementation of this exhibition.
Todd Fuller
Artists and Locations Undercliff Winery - ATMOSPHERE LEE BETHEL42
ANNE GAULTON42 HARRIE FASHER43
JOSHUA SUKLAN44 NERINE MARTINI44 LUDWIG MCLEK 46 AL PHEMISTER47
AMANDA HUMPHRIES43
RO MURRAY45 MIKE PATTON
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JOANNA O'TOOLE46
WENONA MATTHEWS47 JACQUELINE KING48 SUE ROBERTS48
Wollombi Village Vineyards - TRELLIS JAM49
AKIRA KAMADA49 KYLIE BOWLES49
Noyce Brothers Wines - AUGUMENT JIMMY RIX410
LAURIE COLLINS410
JAMES MCCALLUM411 MELISSA LAIRD411
INGRID VAN DER AA412
Wollombi Wines - SUPER HUMAN TAMMIE CASTLES412 AKIRA KAMADA414
FIONA EDMEADES413
WILL MACQUIRE413
VICTORIA MONK415 KATHIE NAJAR415
CHRISTINE SHOJI417
SIMON CLARKE417 PETER TILLY418
JAM414
KELLY ANN LEES414
KYLIE BOWLES416 JACEK WANKOWSKI416 STEVEN DERONNE418
The Gate Gallery - VESSELS LAURIE ANDERSON419 RO MURRAY421
LEE BETHEL419 SERENA HORTON420
JIMMY RIX421 MIKE PATTON422
JOHN WRIGHT423
JACEK WANKOWSKI423
COL HENRY420
AD LONG422 JANE THEAU422
WILL COLES424
MADELEINE HAYES424
Stonehurst Cedar Creek - INTERVENTIONS BJORN GODWIN424
JESSE GRAHAM425 FELICITY YORSTON425
WILL COLES426 ITZICK FISHER426 HOBART HUGHES427 MIGUEL OLMO427 MAURICE SCHLESINGER428 KYLIE BOWLES428 ANTHONY WHYTE429
PETRA SVOBODA429
INGRID VAN DER AA428
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Lee Bethel - Dapple
Cut perspex, 750 x 500mm POA
I explore the dialogue between space, light and shadows. “Dapple” allows the shadow to be the primary focus as the viewer walks underneath the suspended piece; they are covered by the cast shadow. They walk into the dapple. Lee Bethel has been represented in many group and solo exhibitions. She has hung in the Sullman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art on Paper Hazelhurst, Hidden Rookwood cemetary, Wollongong Regional Gallery and Art on the Rocks, Sydney NSW. She has been awarded residencies in Bundanon, NSW, Hill End, NSW, and received and UNESCO Laureate to work in France.
Anne Gaulton - Japonaiserie
Oar, umbrella, rope, copper wire, vinyl, timber, bamboo, wood stain, sand and cement, 2400 x 2400 x 3000mm - $5,550
This is a decorative, symbolic work that takes elements of a painting by Vincent Van Gogh called ‘Japonaiserie : Bridge in the Rain’ (1887). Van Gogh’s work is a copy of a Japanese woodcut by artist Hiroshige. In a similar way to Van Gogh’s painting, this sculpture uses a highly decorative language of colour and form. With these means a sense of civilised cultural development and an exotic strangeness is created. What happens when we place different and exotic cultural forms such as these in the Australian bushland, a setting that of course has already been heavily ‘Europeanised”? The installation becomes an investigation of both the artist and the viewer’s self in relation to a floating configuration of ideas of nations, place, dream and time. Anne Gaulton is a Western Sydney artist with an Honours degree in Visual Arts from Sydney College of the Arts, specialising in sculpture, performance and installation. She has recently completed a residency in 2010 at the Parramatta Artist Studios. Anne started her working life as a museum conservator in the early 80’s. She has been exhibiting in artist run galleries, is involved in community public art projects and has a public sculpture commissioned by Cambelltown City Council.
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Harrie Fasher
The Horse Walks Steel rod, 2200 x 2200 x 1000mm $14,000
“The Horse Walks” examines notions of movement within a still sculptural object. It’s steel rod construction captures the energy of a line sketch into three dimensions. The weight and physicality of a life size horse is juxtaposed with the delicacy of a line drawing. Harrie Fasher’s energy for life is evident in her work. Since graduating with Honours from NAS 2011 she has produced a solo exhibition (Maunsell Wicks Gallery), won the Major prize at Lake Light Sculpture Exhibition, Jindabyne and secured an Art Start grant from the Australian Arts Council. Her depictions of the horse portray an intimate connection, displayed through anatomical accuracy, whimsy and emotion.
Amanda Humphries - Canopy
ceramics, string, dimensions variable - $2600
Canopy’ is a site specific piece that works with drawing the sensory elements together, quietly while co-existing with the natural form. I have recently been collaborating with the musician Fi Claus, and was inspired work with the none-literal and more intangible qualities of music I can learn from and express within my own art practice. Canopy draws together the senses and acts as an ‘ensemble assemblage’. I am working this way to escape some of the syntax of form and escape the four walls and context of the gallery space, like music often escapes language. I emphasise the installation’s quiet nature, and contradiction. A canopy is something that protects and draws your eyes up away from form and more towards the formless. Amanda Humphries is an artist from Northern NSW who currently resides in Sydney. She rotates working between May Street Studios with a group of thirty artists, to being completely alone in her studio on the family property. She has been involved in a number of shows and has had solo shows in ARI’s, regional and commercial galleries both in Australia and overseas, including a residency in India in 2008, and a scholarship to study and exhibit in the USA in 2002. Amanda studied her BFA at CoFA at UNSW and the University of California, San Diego and attends and teaches art workshops regularly.
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Joshua Suklan
Untitled (Spatial Constructs) Perspex and Enamel, 1500 x 2400mmm $1,200
This work deals with the construction of space. Space is perceived both physically and psychologically, my attempt as an artist is to unite these two states of mind for a reactionary cause from the viewers’ experience. This work also deals with the use of negative space - the negative space not only frames the landscape through the transparency of the work, but also constructs a field for which another spatial realm inhabits. Joshua Suklan is a young emerging Sydney-born artist who has an interest in making enquiries into art as object in space, time and its perception by audiences. He likes to encapsulate the viewer by having a physical and psychological effect with the facility of installation. He is currently finishing a BFA at COFA and BA at UNSW. In recent works he has become fascinated with the material perspex and forms of extending painting including alternative painting and drawing practice, light projection, use of space and sound and is continuing to explore these in his current artist practice
Nerine Martini - Departures
Wood, perspex, paper, 620 x 720 x 240mm, 380 x 800 x 240mm , 500 x420 x 200mm $6,700
In many Asian cultures there is a custom of burning paper objects to send a message to the spirits; therefore paper boats have significance to the afterlife of any person that has a relationship with boats during their lifetime. These suitcases could have been carried by a person migrating to Australia in the last century; they represent familiar objects from the past. This work poetically combines Western and Eastern cultures; reflecting journeys made in this life and journeys to the enxt. It is about the things we carry through life both physically and in our imaginations. Master of Fine Arts (COFA). Awarded several public art commissions and has work in the public domain including ‘Life Boat/ Thuyen Curu Roi’, which was purchased by artsACT and is permanently displayed in the Civil Library Canberra. People’s Choice Award, Helen Lempiere National Sculpture Award, 2008, finalist for Sculpture by the Sea seven times, many residencies in Australia and overseas including 6 months in Vietnam in 2006, participated in the Fourth international Sculpture Symposium, Hue, Vietnam.
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Ro Murray - Blue Gold
Poly water pipe, cable ties, 5400 x 1600 x1400mm - $4500
This work engages with the idea of water as an essential element that has not only been commodified but also compromised by the pressures of human production and climate change. It is configured like a large water drop. I think of it is as “blue gold” because it refers to the status of water as a privately owned commodity- with the rights to it sold off to the world market. To look along the inner length is to look along a funnel- it suggests water flushing down a drain. There is the unresolved issue of Sydney’s water reservoir dwindling during times of drought, and the assumed need for an energy guzzling desalination plant, rather than the recycling of sewage and the intelligent use of rainwater. Sponsored by Auspex
Ro Murray’s art practice is based on an appreciation of unaltered nature especially in regard to the changing circumstances of our environment. As a recent graduate (BFA Honours NAS), she combines awareness from her background as architect with sculpture assemblages and site responsive installations through transforming found materials and objects. The work makes recognition of how much we produce and use.This year Ro Murray won the Women on Boards Art Prize, highly commended in the Muswellbrook Art Prize and finalist in the Willoughby Sculpture Prize, Sculptures in the Gaol (South West Rocks), In Situ 11 Festival of Mosman, Hidden: Rookwood Cemetery, Adelaide Perry Drawing prize and Sculpture at Sawmillers Reserve (2010)
Mike Patton - Earthstars
Various plastics, steel sub frame, 750 x 750 x 1500mm - $7,500
These works stem from an imagined future where human’s industrialized wastes have been transformed by planetary forces into new forms of life. The forms are derived and evolved from existing plant and fungi species. The title refers to a fungal species that respond to moisture and opens to a star, bursting in an explosion of spores. The use of industrially produced products being transformed into representative natural forms encourages a reinterpretation and discovery of new association with recognisable materials. Whilst much of my time is spent working as an Art Director and Props Maker for television, I maintain a sculptural practise. I have exhibited at Sculpture in the Vinyards for the past three years. Earlier this year my work was also shown at KASPE. In the last year I have had a number of challenging and interesting prop builds as part of my television work. The opportunity to establish new areas of expertise and hone further skills has always been strong motivation and reward for this work. Sculpture in the Vineyards
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Ludwig Mclek
Vivaldi’s Spring Springs To Mind Wood and pvc, 3500 x 900 x 900mm $8,500
Listening to classical music while I toil in my studio some compositions leave a distinct “imprint” in my head that gradually materializes into a visual expression of a particular piece. Born in Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. Studied Civil Engineering and Graphic Design. Most of the spare time spent in studio of his uncles, sculptor and furniture maker. After Soviet invasion in 1968 migrated to Australia, settled in Blue Mountains. Exhibiting regulary in Australia and overseas.
Joanna O’Toole - Sou’-Westerly Mild steel, recycled hardwood, 2850 x1500 x 800mm - $10,000
‘Sou’-westerly continues to portray my life through sculpture revisiting personal memories. It expresses present change, time and social play through wind direction. As a child between 1972-1984 I spent summer holidays camping at Shoreham, surfing, wing surfing and sailing between Point Leo and Flinders. It was a twelve year period of my life full of playful family memories where I gave no concern to the future. Now I live within the Lake Macquarie area and as a mother of three children I reflect on these memories. I draw parallels between my own childhood and that of my children. However I worry like any parent about their future. We live in a world full of replacement and change. What will our children’s future be? With Global warming lapping at our doorstep, will they exist in a way that the world’s news and media currently suggest? I find myself watching and creating ways in which I can escape into a child’s world away from out obvious decline. But time does not stand still. So I try to embrace the present and learn from it. Through observation and sculpture I am able to hold onto significant playful moments woven from my personal history whilst developing a future journey. Bachelor of Fine Art (Printmaking) RMIT. Post Graduate Studies (Printmaking) Sydney College of the Arts, Currently studying Diploma of Fine Art Painting and Sculpture Newcastle Art School. Technical Assistant (Casual) at the Front Room Gallery Newcastle Art School. 2011 Newcastle Emerging Artist Overall Winner and Winner of the catagoriy prize for Sculpture and Painting. Finalist 2011 Montalto Sculpture prize. Selected for Lorne Sculpture (Sculpturescape) 2011 October. Over 30 selected/solo and group shows, Regularly exhibits.
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Al Phemister - Dandelion
Steel and paint, 500 x 500 x 2300mm $1,500 each
Al’s family and the natural environment are his inspiration and define his work. Function and decorative aspects are fused into one, and reflect the growing and changing environment where plants, dreams and love all flourish together. Al Phemister has been making and restoring furniture for almost twenty years and prefers clean, simple design. Incorporating found objects and recycled materials. Al turns them into new and exciting creations, which has led, in a natural progression, to him making sculptures.
Wenona Matthews - Untitled Wire, beeswax, jute, 2000 x 8000 x 2000mm - NFS
My artistic practice culminates around the exploration of consciousness and spiritual understandings from around the world. I place intent into the belief of a universal life force of creative existence outside the set material reality in which humans exist and interact. My artistic work and research aims to focus on places unseen, unknown and avoided by the structures of western society. My past sculptural and drawing works have centred on sacred geometric designs and fractals and the ability of these designs and patterns to alter the mind of the viewer. As my work has evolved I have begun exploring broader themes and possibilities around consciousness, sacred symbols, storytelling and ritual. Wenona began her art studies through completing a Diploma of Fine Art with TAFE NSW, she then continued on to the National Art School completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts, majoring in sculpture in 2008. She followed this study by completing a masters of Art and Curatorship at the University of Sydney in 2010.Wenona has a strong interest and passion for healing and esoteric studies and has been devoting large amounts of her recent time into the study of Plant Spirit Shamanism in the Peruvian Amazon. She uses these studies as inspiration and ideas for her artistic practice and research.
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Jacqueline King
Interconnected
Art Glass, copper foil, solder, tinned copper wire, dimensions variable - $2,700
All my work is defined by a deliberate effort to obtain an empathic and keen understanding in the viewer of the fragility and diversity of life on earth. ‘Interconnected’ speaks more specifically of our union with all living things and our spiritual connections to all and to each other whereby we discover we are truly only one. As an emerging artist in her third year of practice and with an unabating passion for glass, Jacqueline King has already built a solid reputation for excellence in her unique glass practice now having created an extensive body of work and been recognised in US publication ‘Best of Worldwide Glass Artists’ plus many other Art publications in Australia. Inspired by the natural world and her travels across Australia’s vast outback, each piece is designed and crafter in her studio gallery in Dalwood, Northern NSW. Focusing on copper foiled and fused/slumped glass, salvaged timber, steel and natural elements including shells, seeds, precious stones and even snake skin and leaves, her work is ever expanding and exploring larger wall mounted and external sculptural pieces and commissions. Her work is sought after by private collectors and manyregional and capital city galleries.
Sue Roberts - The Listrumpet Stainless steel, brushed finish, electrical components, 1200 x 850 x 2800mm - $5,000
This sculpture follows the theme of entrapment that I have been working on for over a year. It evokes memories of the hearing trumpets of days past and of megaphone wielding coaches running up and down the sports field. The former was used to concentrate sound, and the latter to magnify sound, but in both cases the sound is trapped and contained within the cone of the trumpet, before being projected inwards or outwards. Sue Roberts was born in the UK, styded at Cambridge College of Art and won the CCAT travel scholarship. She has also studied at Hornsby TAFE, then the National Art School, gaining a BFA (Sculpture) in 2008. She exhibited at Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi and received the Peoples’ Choice Award at Sculpture in the Vineyards, and the Kooindah acquisitive Sculpture Prize. Many thanks to Jolyon Bone for his kind assistance with the electronics
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JaM - Untitled
Wood, wire, 2000 x 1500 x 6000mm $750
These simple, honest forms create a mini forest or farm in a foreign place. They are portable and could create their ambience anywhere, yet here they seem to fit because they reflect the very orderly rows of grape vines, the plant that now holds primary economic importance in this landscape. Jane Theau and Mandy Pryse-Jones have pursued separate art practices for several years and our artistic collaboration JaM, came to fruition 2 years ago when we were both awarded a residency at the Primrose Park Studio. From this residency we developed ideas for exhibitions at Primrose Park and the Bondi Pavillion in 2010. The JaM collaborative practice is largely focused on human interactions with the landscape. Our first public sculpture was a piece titled ‘From life to life’ in the 2011 Hidden exhibition at Rookwood.
Akira Kamada - Earth Grape vine, aluminium, chicken wire, 2000 x 1500 x 1000mm - $3,000
Humans move around erratically, impulsively on Earth while Earth itself continues on its steady trajectory. Born in Japan 1955, Akira migrated to Australia 1987. Has been exhibiting in sculpture shows and competitions such as Sculpture by the Sea, UWS Sculpt ure Award, Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Sculpture in the Vineyards, etc over the past 6 years.
Kylie Bowles
Stop and Smell the Roses
Steel and wood, 2500 x 1500 x 200mm - $350 each
Have you ever wondered why there are beautiful rose bushes that appeared at the end of vineyard rows? See Kylie’s full artist statement in the Stonehurst Cedar Creek section. Kylie is a young, emerging artist currently completing an Advanced Diploma and Bachelor of Fine Arts, majoring in sculpture and printmaking. In 2009, she won the acquisitive Hornsby Art Prize and had works acquired in the NSI TAFE collection. In 2010,she won the Sydney Olympic Park Residency, and exhibited at Rookwood Cemetery, the Royal Easter Show, Westmead Hospital and the See Street Gallery. Sculpture in the Vineyards
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Jimmy Rix - Greater Grater Steel, 3500 x 1900 x 1200mm - $9,500
Like so many, the artist has worked as a chef to support his career as a sculptor. The work pays homage to the restaurant industry for providing these opportunities. Numerous solo and group exhibitions since 1995. Exhibited in Sculpture by the Sea fives times in Bondi and Cottesloe. Winner of the Clitheroe Foundation and Sculpture by the Sea Mentorship in 2009. Guest speaker at Sculpture Conference 2009 at Art Gallery of NSW. Exhibited in Gomboc Annual Sculpture Survey, 2009 in Western Australia. Exhibited in the University of Western Sydney Sculpture prize and Sawmillers Sculpture prize in 2010. Works in the Lowenstein, Burge and Bamford Collections and private collections in the USA, Ireland, France, Netherlands, Singapore, Fiji and Australia.
Laurie Collins - Big Cocky Steel and recycled steel, 1500 x 1400 x 400mm - $800
We often have sulphur crested Cockatoos visit our place and other cockys too but you can tell they are about by their harsh call and usually broken pinecones and bits of branch dropped around the trees. They are such characters and I really enjoy their intelligence, playfulness and presence. When I was a kid I knew and old lady who had one in a cage and it was always with delight that I might be allowed to feed it‌ also the terror that that strong beak might take off a finger! .I have made this piece with junk (as is my common practice) to reflect that this marvelous bird is often regarded as a pest to farmers when they descend on a crop in large flocks and strip things bare quickly. This is the second piece I have made featuring a bird form and I am continually amazed by the fluidity and grace of these heavy birds. Laurie Collins was born in Preston Victoria, in 1954. He started off as a baby but has since grown to 6 foot 5 inches. He went to Rmit to study Civil Engineering and Architecture and girls but only stayed a year in these courses before going to do a B.Ed of Teaching (Arts and Crafts majoring in wood and metal). His first school was Mortlake High School where he developed a love of teaching and started a family. He was involved in the historical society there and enjoyed the community and the area. He then worked at Drouin Secondary College for about 20 years. He did part of a Tafe course in welding and has since developed metal sculptures and furniture. He is now retired and working at his art full time. He is bearded, overweight, sort of ugly and married to the lovely Marian with 3 grown children. He lives in beautiful Jindivick Victoria where his studio is a shed surrounded by piles of metal junk which makes up parts of his sculptures and furniture. He reads, listens to music and generally enjoys life.
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James McCallum Crouching Man
Rusted steel, 1200 x 870 x 700mm $1800
‘Crouching Man’ is an abstract figure that has been constructed with curved and round shapes. The column composition combined with the horizontal rhythms creates a sense of weight, compression and strength. Certain element relate closely to features of the human body while others are more ambiguous. Observing the under life size scale sends a strange relationship between the viewer and the work. The rust of the steel unifies the surface and introduces a warm feeling. I was born in Sydney Australia in 1989. I have studied at Cranbrook School and at the moment I am completing my honours degree in sculpture at the National Art School. I have shown work in a number of group shows at Mils Gallery, Delmar Gallery and the Library Stairwell Gallery over the past three years. My other interests include playing jazz on the trumpet ad euphonium.
Melissa Laird - Woman Wrought iron and collage, transfer on acrylic, 2000 x 400mm - $2000
The installation ‘Woman’ is a work which draws on the themes of maternal love and the pioneering spirit - women of the Wollombi district. The installation celebrates childbirth and survival, whilst referencing child mortality in the Hunter Valley district. More particularly it pays homage to the mother of Thomas Bellamy (aged 11 months) who died on Christmas Eve of 1846, the first burial in the Wollombi Cemetery. The anatomical drawing which dominates the lower region of the sculpture is a uterus, symbolic of reproduction. Books as features of learning feature at the top of the frame. Beverley Gordon (1996) writing on the female body states; “Woman was seen as the embodiment of the home... and an extension of her corporal and spiritual self” (p. 126). Dr Melissa Laird trained as a graphic designer prior to undertaking postgraduate study. Her research interests include material culture scholarship and visual intelligence. Laird’s Doctoral thesis (2009) was entitled Remnant and Reliquary: Fragmentary Traces Reconciled as Object and Knowledge. Material culture research and the lives of Women, Australia1788-1901. Notions of ephemeral, transient and fragmentary artefacts as significant models for historical study underpin her work. She exhibited at the Hyde Park Barracks Museum Sydney in 2009, and won the Groundswell Project People’s Choice Award in ‘Hidden: A Sculpture Walk’ at Rookwood Necropolis in 2010. Sculpture in the Vineyards
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Ingrid Van Der Aa Rubber Soul
EVA Foam Rubber on wood, dimensions variable - $1,000
A ‘soft’ approach to Minimalism allows the viewer to engage with the work Rubber Soul in a new and different way. A series of colourful softly formed foam rubber enfold the space and the viewer, combining a modernist past and a dislocated present. The work challenges the relationship between form and formless and it provokes the arguments of formalism and anti-formalism; of the playful space in between. The style is colourful and funky. The folds have hidden depths, showing the resilience. The work is flexible and bounces back; the spirit is strong, indefatigable. The soft folds create their own life, soul. Ingrid Van der Aa is a Sydney based artist. She is currently finishing her Bachelors of Visual Arts at Sydney College of the Arts in Painting. This year Ingrid has had a few group exhibition at Paper Plane Gallery, Rozelle (Shaped), Project Contemporary Art Space Wollongong (Perplexed) and exhibits some of her work at the Gate Galllery in Wollombi. In the past 10 years Ingrid has exhibited in Sydney, Central Coast and the Netherlands across sculpture, installation and painting.
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Tammie Castles - Ikuntji Views Acrylic, self adhesive, clear vinyl, steel and wood, dimensions variable $1,100
‘Ikuntji Views’ relates to the time I spent in the NT working at a remote community. The views of the spectacular landscape was often experienced looking through the 4x4’s window or was framed by the steel telegraph poles that dominate the community and frame the mountains. This work looks to superimpose one landscape into another in a work that will hopefully engage and interact with the audience. My work relates to my mementos and the memories that they stir with a strong theme of documentation of travel and the archiving of experience. Using systematic ways to document my day to day existence which involve such measures as regimented routine of photography, mail art, mapping and broadcasting my thoughts, finds and works through my blog- I collect content for my drawings as well as archiving the experience.
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Will Maguire Flock
Forged steel 1200 x 800 x 1300mm $5,500
This sculpture looks at the human mindset relating to the power of confidence and curiosity. Will is a bespoke Artist Blacksmith and has exhibited his work in England and Australia having won several sculpture awards including the 2011 Maitland Art prize. He exhibited at Sculpture in the Vineyards 2010. Sponsored buy
Fiona Edmeades Over the Threshold
Steel, timber, plastic, found chairs and chair parts - $1,100 each
I am interested in everyday objects, full of allure and the manner in which they exist alongside us as they populate our lives. The chair is a multifaceted object, full of allure and mystery. With rich history and strong symbolic content. An object that is part of our innermost world; into which we surrender our bodies, retreat, or seek comfort. The relationship of our everyday beingin-the-world with this object, animates the chair, and in this way, it embodies a threshold between the temporal and the eternal worlds’ of being. Collapsing the boundaries further, these chairs have been deconstructed and reconfigured, transcending their previous existence, removed from the dwelling and suspended in the landscape. Graduating from the National Art School in 2009, Fiona Edmeades was recently awarded the ArtsStart grant from the Australia Council of the Arts. In her recent solo show entitled ‘Seats of the Soul’ (unravelling the everyday chair), Fiona revisits her roots as a traditional upholster in London in the early 90’s. Fiona Edmeades is interested in the everyday objects and the manner in which their existence is so intimately entwined within our own. Fiona’s current body of work, investigates the chair as an object of both temporal and symbolic significance. Sculpture in the Vineyards
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Kelly Ann Lees Woven Orb Stack
Recycled steel wire 2400 x 2400 x 2400mm $2500 each or $9000 set
My work is constructed from found and recycled objects and inspired by natural forms particularly the circle and sphere which are my current obsession. Majored in ceramics at Sydney College of the Arts, graduating in 2000. Metal sculpting since 2003, various solo and group shows including sculpture by the sea 2008, 2009 and 2010.
JaM - Levitating Lightly
Perspex, wood, metal, water, 1500 x 700 x 1100mm - $1500
This work alludes to the dispersal of the bodies molecules, and the soul’s energy, through the biosphere after death. A CAD sectional drawing was made of a prone human body and recreated in perspex rods. The opaque sections of the rods represent the body, which appears to be floating over the transparent sections, and over the body of water from which ir rises, like a body levitating lightly. Jane Theau and Mandy Pryse-Jones have pursued separate art practices for several years and our artistic collaboration JaM, came to fruition 2 years ago when we were both awarded a residency at the Primrose Park Studio. From this residency we developed ideas for exhibitions at Primrose Park and the Bondi Pavillion in 2010. The JaM collaborative practice is largely focused on human interactions with the landscape. Our first public sculpture was a piece titled ‘From life to life’ in the 2011 Hidden exhibition at Rookwood.
Akiria Kamada
Chaos and Harmony Recycled timber, metal, paint, 7000 x 3000 x 3000mm - $13,000 Born in Japan 1955, Akira migrated to Australia 1987. Has been exhibiting in sculpture shows and competitions such as Sculpture by the Sea, UWS Sculpt ure Award, Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Sculpture in the Vineyards, etc over the past 6 years.
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Victoria Monk - Yo Mate Wire mesh, 2000 x 1300 x 1100mm $2,500
The wire has been sculptured rather than predetermined by design in order to create gesture within the figure. It is reminiscent of my performing days of choreographer and dancer. The material is collected discarded wire from Sydney’s back streets, with newer additions as the figure grew. Victoria Monk’s art has crossed different media from performer, choreographer, community artist to sculptor, photographer and printmaker. She has been exhibiting since the 1980s in Sydney, regional New South Wales, Alice Springs and Melbourne. Also selected for exhibitions such as Sculpture in the Vineyards, South Sydney Sculpture Symposium, Untitled Installation for the Performance Space, first prize winner Amnesty International and twice finalist in the Blake Prize.
Kathie Najar - Teenage Games Hand painted ceramic tiles, marine ply, silicon, metal post, 220 x 220 x 150 mm each without post $1200 ea
This series of sculptures was informed by the tradition of 18th century hand painted Dutch Delft tile series of children’s games. The memory of the original miniature hand painted endearing images of old fashioned children’s games is the vehicle of attraction, which here on closer inspection has been transformed to the aversion of teenage unstable behaviour, as children walk the razor’s edge to a mentally mature adulthood. The letterbox is the entry point to the expectation of a happy home and family, and poses the question is anyone home to tend to and care for our young adults. These bitter images of harmful behaviours repeat generation after generation. Kathie Najar completed a degree in Fine Arts in Sydney in the early 1980’s, since then she has worked as a commissioned artist painting tiles, murals, glass and fabrics. She had also won awards and commissions nationally for her collage and hand painted tile works. Currently Kathie is completing a Master’s Degree at College of Fine Arts, UNSW.
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Kylie Bowles - Auto Bee Recycled automobile parts 2500 x1800 x 1500mm - $750 for the Queen, $550 each for the worker bees
Our beautiful country is blessed for as far as the eye can see. Trees, flowers, vineyards bloom and thrive. If you look closely at the blossoming branches you will see the reason for the explosion of growth; if you listen, you will hear the unmistakeable buzz that accompanies the diligent work involved. Most people know very little about the honeybee’s importance as nature’s master pollinator, and without the honeybee the vitality and colour of the planet would be lost. Albert Einstein is reputed to have said, “If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would only have four years of life left. No more pollinators, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.” I am an emerging artist with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and an Advanced Diploma of Fine Arts. In 2011, I won first prize for class 10: Rural Subject at the Royal Easter Show, and the Hidden Newington Armoury Award. I have also won the Sydney Olympic Park Residency in 2010 and 2011. In 2009 I won the acquisitive Hornsby Art Prize, and I have works acquired by the NSI TAFE collection and Westmead Hospital. I have also exhibited at Sculpture in the Vineyards, Gallery 14, Tap Gallery, Hardware Gallery, Watch House Gallery, Rookwood Cemetery, the Royal Easter Show, Westmead Hospital and the See Street Gallery.
Jacek Wankowski - Pauanui Hot dipped galvanised steel and weathered corten steel, 1800 x 2000 x 1000mm - $22,000
‘Pauanui’ is the Maori word for ‘big abalone’, a giant clam slowly opening in anticipation of something to be revealed. It explores the tension generated by environmental forces interacting with and reflected by the change in shape of this sedentary animal. It pursues that moment between balance and flight where the precise distribution of mass, form and space activate the sculpture – a creative engineering that aims to imbue a potency of energy, of aerial lightness, or alternatively of crushing weight. Inspired by observation of pattern and form in the natural world and spatially activated by the distribution of its mass, Pauanui embodies movement and anticipation – a sense of unfolding . . . of unwrapping. Jacek shares his time between the Hunter Valley, Australia and London. He originally trained and worked internationally as a marine biologist, is a SCUBA diver and international traveller and draws upon these experiences to inform his practice. Since graduating in 2006 from the National Art School in Sydney, he has exhibited his large-scale outdoor sculptures and smaller, intimate indoor pieces internationally in numerous group and solo exhibitions in the UK and Australia. His work is in private collections in Australia and the UK and he exhibits with the Brenda May Gallery, Sydney.
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Christine Shoji - Giri Expanded polystyrene, metal strips, bamboo chopsticks, epoxy resin, 1500 x 900mm - $1,000
Giri’ is an essential part of Japanese society. It means the burden of obligation to all whom you encounter in your daily life. Usually it is those who are higher in social status than yourself- your boss, your teacher, patron. I have been married to a Japanese national for 40 years. ‘Giri’ is a part of my existence. It cannot be changed or altered. Christine Shoji is a Sydney based artist currently completing her Diploma of Visual Art at Meadowbank TAFE. She has exhibited widely in Australia and Japan. Sculpture is a new venture for Chris.
Simon Clarke - Pivot Wing Wood, steel, copper, 1800 x 1800 x 250mm - $1,700
This work explores the sense of wonder, using organic and technological elements that relate to the natural world. An arc of timber balances curiously on a pivot within a core gear element. As the wing is moved by the wind, the third element, a copper pinion, spins upon itself and traverses the central support that turns it. These three interlinked forms compose an exploration of balance, movement and interaction. The gear column supports the wing, which supports a pinion which meshes with the gear. The elements are in a loop of interconnection. Gears and machinery are often symbols for difficult complexity, but here, they express the intertwining systems of the natural world. Beauty and complexity can coexist; the complex networks of the natural world show us this. The biological and planetary systems that sustain us interweave grace with complexity, and elegance arises from their harmony. The spinning pinion gear resembles a circular temple. The symbols of temple and machinery represent the contrary ideas of sacred and profane, spiritual and material, heavenly and earthly; they are brought together under the sheltering arc of organic wood. Simon Clarke’s work explores interconnections of wood, metal and history, using found and constructed industrial forms to generate intriguing hybrids. Passion for the multiple meanings we inhabit informs the material and conceptual aspects of this art practice.
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Wollombi Wines • SUPER HUMAN Peter Tilley
Tomorrow is another day Cast iron and Corten steel, 1800 x 1130 x 450mm - $14,000
This work is a large cast iron and steel sculpture and continues the theme of my recent works in utilising my own experience. In this particular case childhood memories are used as raw material and the basis for the narrative. There can be a sense of emptiness, suggestive of the transient nature of life, and there is also a tendency for inanimate objects to predominate. However, a range of thematic ideas and formal strategies are employed, derived from a visual vocabulary that is readily understood. The objects and imagery employed are universally common yet multi layered in meaning, significance and complexity. They address humanist concerns through realism and figuration. My work is concerned with truth and order, which is evident in the elegant simplicity. I try to achieve a simplicity in these still life tableaux that is incisive and intuitively accepted yet capable of complex layers of meaning. There are many possible interpretations depending on the viewers own journey through life. Studied Art and Ceramics at Newcastle School of Art and Design and was privately trained as a sculptor. Master of Philosophy (Fine Art) Newcastle University. Has participated in over 70 group shows and 25 solo exhibitions. SxS Bondi and SxS Cottesloe numerous times since 2004, SXS Aarhus 2009, 2011. Sculpture in the vineyards 2010, Rookwood cemetery 2011. Represented in public and private collections in Australia, and private collections overseas.
Steven Deronne E.T Detector
Steel, recycled steel, found objects 700 x 600 x 4000mm - $2,700
I want my work to provoke thought about slowing our hectic ways of life, learning to do a bit more star gazing and appreciating looking after the universe we exist in. The immensity of the cosmos is mind blowing. The chance of extra terrestrial life is highly probable. My device might help to detect the little green men... I was born and bred in Brittany, France. I began my art career studying Fine Arts at Ecole Beaux Arts in Rennes, France. In 2000 after travelling broadly, I settled in Australia, resumed my studies and in 2008 graduated with an Advanced Diploma of Fine Arts from the TAFE Sydney Gallery School. I was awarded the’Global Colours Best performing Student’ in 2004 and the Crawfords Casting Award and the Sydney Olympic Park Authority Sculpture Residency Award for the highest grade in sculpture in 2008. In 2008 and 2009, I also had exhibitions at Newview Gallery, Newtown and Crisp Galleries, Bowning, respectively. My group exhibitions include Sculpture in the Vineyards (08, 09 and 10), ‘A Space on Cleveland Gallery’, Surry Hills, ‘See Street Gallery’, Meadowbank and the ‘Manly Art Museum’. I have also exhibited at the Downing Centre in Sydney’s CBD. I currently work from my studio in Yass.
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The Gate Gallery•VESSELS Laura Anderson - Out Stack Wood, 1220 x 400 x 380mm - $1,200
My sculptures are an exploration of the creative potential that exists in the continuously changing shapes, structures and dynamic geology of the landscape. Through observation and consideration of the power of natural forces to create perpetual change, I have made use of weights, rhythms and relationships found in natural materials to deconstruct the energy and power that carves and reshapes the land through irrepressible internal and external forces. Laura was born in London and moved to Sydney in 2002. After moving to Sydney Laura pursued her love of art making and began studying full time towards a Bachelor of Fine Art (Sculpture) degree from the National Art School, which she completed in 2008. Laura has since exhibited in a number of group shows in Sydney. In 2010 Laura was awarded 2nd prize for sculpture at the Waterhouse Natural History Art prize, enabling her to build a studio space at her home in Marrickville where she now lives and works.
Lee Bethel - Cubile Presopia Found objects, timber, stainless steel, 1080 x 900 x 600mm - POA
Initially I made the nests of this piece as part of my continuing exploration of grids; nests appear to be a loose 3-dimensional grid. They enclose space in a particular way. When they were finished they needed a place to live and where better than a tree. The trees are found branches joined and painted and the stainless steel is factory offcuts. The resulting forms are quite animated and the shadows cast by the piece add to the chaotic nature of their dance with each other. Grouped together a strong, lively interaction and sense of belonging results; a new species A family of Nests. Placing the works outside would introduce the possibility of birds landing on the work or even possibly using the existing nests. Lee Bethel has been represented in many group and solo exhibitions. She has hung in the Sullman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art on Paper Hazelhurst, Hidden Rookwood cemetary, Wollongong Regional Gallery and Art on the Rocks, Sydney NSW. She has been awarded residencies in Bundanon, NSW, Hill End, NSW, and received and UNESCO Laureate to work in France.
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The Gate Gallery•VESSELS Serena Horton - Jardiniére Ceramic Earthenware, 1000 x 300 x 400mm - $2,000
Object d’art- I feel the need to revisit Rococo Art and experiment with decoration and colour. B.A (Hons) in ceramics from Central School of Art and Design, London. After graduating Serena was invited to set up her studio in an established artist’s compound in London, which ensured regular invitations to exhibiti. In 1985 she moved to Sydney and found work at the Crafts Council of Australia, studio space and a ceramic teaching job. Serena is represented in the collection of the National Gallery Australia, Canberra and has exhibited in Sculpture by the Sea in 2008 and 2009.
Col Henry - Pony Folly Royal species Australian hardwood, stainless steel and copper, 900 x 3000 x 3000mm - $10,000
Exploring the concept of ‘community’ and its importance to a sense of well being and connection. Five figurative elements, depicting animals that have a strong resemblance to ‘ponies’, are a metaphor for the complicated and diverse interactions between groups in a community. The ‘Horse/Pony’ was chosen to stress the ‘herding instinct’ so often found in community. This animal is also held in great esteem, for its strength and endurance, while being recognised as an iconic figure and, as a cuddly toy. These colourful figurative elements have a humorous feel at first glance, but looking closer conjures the enigmatic nature of the works, allowing the deserning to relate on a deeper level, while being attractive and interactive to the younger audience who will find their tactile nature difficult to ignore. Col Henry has been recognised as an innovator, not an imitator, and his unique work has developed over 40 years of dedication to his art. His practice is characterized by conceptual agility, inventiveness, knowledge of the language of sculpture, and his poetic, romantic and elegant associations. He is concerned with the energy of form in relation to the space in which it interacts, remaining true to the materials, while reflecting on the natural form and its environment. He has continually conducted Sculpture Classes for the past 20 years in his studio in Wyong Creek, in the Yarramalong Valley, NSW. He is regularly involved in many forms of artistic endeavour, including major Public commissions, helping community groups and many local schools, and volunteering to achieve excellence in art and art awareness. Col Henry has studied for many years in pursuit of his artistic endeavour, including related Degrees, Diplomas and countless Certificates and short courses. He has been collected in Australian and Overseas in many private collections.
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The Gate Gallery•VESSELS Ro Murray - Two By Two Found cast iron, steel, 10 pairs each 330 x 150 x 900mm $6,000
Originally, these were compression cylinders from trains, now they represent boats reminiscent of Noah’s Ark. In a metaphorical sense they represent the idea of survival. A sanctuary not only from floods and tsunamis such as we have seen this year, but protection from a toxic environment. The vessels are cradled as if floating, by steel ribs .The strength of cast iron is reminiscent of ancient strength. Ro Murray’s art practice is based on an appreciation of unaltered nature especially in regard to the changing circumstances of our environment. As a recent graduate (BFA Honours), she combines awareness from her background as architect with sculpture assemblages and site responsive installations through transforming found materials and objects. The work makes recognition of how much we produce and use. This year Ro Murray won the Women on Boards Art Prize, highly commended in the Muswellbrook Art Prize and a finalist in the Willoughby Sculpture prize, Sculptures in the Gaol (South West Rocks), In-situ Festival of Mosman, Hidden: Rookwood Cemetery, Adelaide Perry Drawing prize and Sculpture at Sawmillers Reserve (2010).
Jimmy Rix - Suburb Rammed Earth, dimensions variable $4500.00 or $900.00 each
I am very interested in sustainable architecture and the impending change in global temperatures. I would like to think that in the future we will all use sustainable materials when building our homems for heating, cooling and aesthetic reaons. As a sculptor I think it is important to consider sustainable materials when making sculpture. I like to make my work from the earth and to see it returning to the earth over time. I hope during the life of the sculpture it can create awareness in the beauty of our neglected earth. Numerous solo and group exhibitions since 1995. Exhibited in Sculpture by the Sea fives times in Bondi and Cottesloe. Winner of the Clitheroe Foundation and Sculpture by the Sea Mentorship in 2009. Guest speaker at Sculpture Conference 2009 at Art Gallery of NSW. Exhibited in Gomboc Annual Sculpture Survey, 2009 in Western Australia. Exhibited in the University of Western Sydney Sculpture prize and Sawmillers Sculpture prize in 2010. Works in the Lowenstein, Burge and Bamford Collections and private collections in the USA, Ireland, France, Netherlands, Singapore, Fiji and Australia.
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The Gate Gallery•VESSELS Mike Patton - Plasnerge
Various plastics, steel sub frame, 1100 x 1100 x 2400mm - $12,000
The work attempts to describe energy itself, and in relationship to other. A positive and negative presence creating balance and harmony. Driven by the desire to ‘animate the inanimate’ with idea and form. We share the same destiny after all. Whilst much of my time is spent working as an Art Director and Props Maker for television, I maintain a sculptural practise. I have exhibited at Sculpture in the Vinyards for the past three years. Earlier this year my work was also shown at KASPE. In the last year I have had a number of challenging and interesting prop builds as part of my television work. The opportunity to establish new areas of expertise and hone further skills has always been strong motivation and reward for this work. Recent areas of exploration have included LED lighting , remote control mechanism, and figurative sculpture.
Ad Long - The Rower Wood, magic sculpt, paint 1200 x 800 x 500mm - $2,500
All my sculpture has a toy-like quality, and ‘The Rower’ is no different. I started with a banged up old model boat, and the rower himself has a cartoon-like quality. The inspiration is a restoration project I’ve become involved with (to save an historic ship from 1963, the MV Cape Don). The octopus is a mascot I’ve created for the ship. I’ve worked as a freelance artist (cartoons, storyboards, illustrations and murals) for 20 years, and have been sculpting for four years or so. My work is usually an assemblage of old domestic or industrial objects, combined with the colourful characters I sculpt and paint. These objects endeavour to create a nostalgia for a time and place that never quite existed.
Jane Theau - Spirit House Bronze, wood, 2000 x 100 x 100mm $2,500
Thank you to David Dennison and Australian Bronze for the help they provided on Spirit House
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The Gate Gallery•VESSELS John Wright - Camel O’ Camel Steel bar, 4000 x 5000 x1200mm $12,000
This work is one of a series of supersized animals. Following on the heals or paws of 3m hares, brahma bulls and a kangaroo The works are all simple drawings and have allowed me to explore drawing beyond the 2d and imbue the figures with varied characters. The camel is an odd creature that has a wonderful strength, both physically and in attitude. A stoic and graceful figure. I have been a practicing artist for the last ten years. Having trained at TAFE and the NAS I have hasd a number of solo shows and taken part in numerous joing exhibitions. Most recently I have been working in steel and wire to protray animals in various forms. As well as realistic drawings I have been working on abstracted and supersized figures that possess humorous as well as often ominous characters.
Jacek Wankowski - Slither 1 Hot dipped galvanised steel and weathered corten steel, mild steel plinth, 430 x 1420 x 600mm excluding plinth $6,500
‘Slither1’ pursues a moment where the precise distribution of mass, form and space activate the sculpture. Inspired by observation of the natural marine world, it is intended to embody complexity, movement and a sense of thrust and violence. The galvanised elements represent the force of ocean currents; the weathered corten elements of sedentary marine animals violently being pushed and pulled in all directions by the force of the current. The work explores the tension generated by environmental forces interacting with and reflected by the change in shape of small invertebrate sea creatures. Jacek shares his time between the Hunter Valley, Australia and London. He originally trained and worked internationally as a marine biologist, is a SCUBA diver and international traveller and draws upon these experiences to inform his practice. Since graduating in 2006 from the National Art School in Sydney, he has exhibited his largescale outdoor sculptures and smaller, intimate indoor pieces internationally in numerous group and solo exhibitions in the UK and Australia. His work is in private collections in Australia and the UK and he exhibits with the Brenda May Gallery, Sydney. Sculpture in the Vineyards
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The Gate Gallery•VESSELS Will Coles - Memorial to the unknown armchair general
Cold cast resin - POA
Born 1972 & raised in the English countryside. My grandfather, Norman Sillman, was a respected sculptor & therefore I always felt it in my blood. I went to Wimbledon & Glasgow Schools of Art but my grandpa taught me more than they could. I moved to Sydney in 1996 & I’ve been getting my work into peoples faces ever since. I want people to see that art has an important role to play in their lives. Art, especially mine, can be thoughtful, provocative, enriching & humorous.
Madeleine Hayes - The Picnic Ceramic pigments, fabric, timber and wire - 250 x 900 x 900mm - $4800
For this work I was inspired by the romantic notion of the picnic; moments of joy shared amongst friends and the coming together to enjoy the relaxed and informal nature of having a picnic. My work is of a narrative and figurative nature and I am interested in making tender images out of clay that explore simple human practice and that aim to capture a snapshot of time, space and emotion. I have chosen to use the bird as a symbol because of its connection with the sky and for its representation of a link between heaven and earth. I aim to explore the distortion of scale as well as the transient nature of all objects. Madeleine was born in 1983 and spent her childhood in St Albans. This beautiful and idyllic childhood continues to nourish and inform her extraordinary sense of imagination and creativity. Madeleine is a qualified chef and has worked in some of Sydneys best restaurants. In 2009 she completed her BFA at the National Art School and in 2010 she completed her Honours year. This year Madeleine returned to St Albans, where she and her partner will build a studio and a home so they can carry on making art and doing what they both love so much. In 2010 she was awarded the Andrew Petherbridge prize and is currently engaged with a residency at the North Coast TAFE institute. Madeleine is represented by King Street Gallery on William.since. I want people to see that art has an important role to play in their lives. Art, especially mine, can be thoughtful, provocative, enriching & humorous.
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The Gate Gallery•INDOOR EXHIBITION 1. Lee Bethel - Horizon
Encaustic on Foamcore 450 x 450 x 200 mm
$350.00
2. Will Coles - “etc etc” Grey
cast cement, Sydney, grey skull with lettering 200 x 200 x 150mm
$120.00 (edition of 30)
3. Will Coles - “etc etc” White
cast resin & marble dust, Sydney, white Skull with lettering 200 x 200 x 150mm
$ 220.00
4. Fiona Edmeades Relationship #2
found chairs, timber 1040 x 1040 x 230mm
$800.00
Ro Murray - Gorge
5. Harrie Fasher - The Prowler
steel rod, 1300 x 1000 x 1200 mm
$7500.00
6. Itzick Fisher - searchin’ high...searchin’ low
painted steel, 300 x 500 x 150 mm
$280.00 each
7. Hobart Hughes - Monk Driving
wood , 1200 x 1300 x 800mm
$3000.00
8. Akira Kamada - Construction (raw)
timber, liquidnail, 300 x 150 x 150 mm
$500.00 Sculpture in the Vineyards
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The Gate Gallery•INDOOR EXHIBITION 9. Melissa Laird
Lachrimae: In memoriam
glass bottles, tear drops, natural materials, non-precious jewels, paper, timber, perspex 400 x 300 x 400 mm NFS
10. Kelly-Ann Lees Railway Orb
recycled railway tie pins, 400 x 400 x 400 mm
$1800.00
11. Ad Long - Wreckatron 2
Itzick Fisher - searchin’ high...searchin’ low
plywood, magic sculpt, tin toy, textured paint, 500 x 600 x 150mm
$900.00
12. Ro Murray - Gorge perspex $950.00
13. Ro Murray - Two by two (wreck)
cast iron steel, 430 x 300 x 270mm
$950.00
14. Kathie Najar - 14 Tumbledown Bay Road
hand painted ceramic tiles, marine ply silicon, 220 x 220 x 150mm
$1200.00
15. Kathie Najar - 16 Loser Lane
hand painted ceramic tiles, marine ply silicon, 220 x 220 x 150 mm
$1200.00
16. Kathie Najar - 18 Risky Drive
hand painted ceramic tiles, marine ply silicon 220 x 220 x 150mm
$1200.00
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17. Joanna O’Toole - Weather Report
6mm solid oak, recycled steel, 1000 x 600 x 250mm
$1500.00
18. Mike Patton - Mute 8-11
steel rod, 1400 x 500 x 350mm
$1600.00
19. Jimmy Rix - Cement Truck 2/10
concrete, 105 x 115 x 80mm
$280.00
20. Sue Roberts - 4th dimension
polished stainless steel, 530 x 320 x 180mm
$1200.00
21. Ingrid Van Der Aa - Perspexed web2
perspex, 450 x 800 x480m
$450.00
22. Nerine Martini - Two hands #1
fired clay, bronze, 140 x 60 x 190mm
$350.00
23. Nerine Martini - Two hands #2
fired clay, bronze, 140 x 60 x 190mm
$350.00
Kelly-Ann Lees - Railway Orb
Mike Patton - Mute 8-11 Sculpture in the Vineyards
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Stonehurst Cedar Creek Wines •INTERVENTION Jesse Graham Birdwatchers
Steel, tin, perspex, 3000 x 3000 x 1000mm $9,000 for set, $6,000 for larger Birdwatcher
Ornithology at the peak of evolution. Jesse is a full time sculptor lucky enough to live in the bush on the south coast of NSW. Surrounded by the endlessly singing Bellbirds! Jesse is a self taught sculptor, predominately working in steel.
Felicity Yorston - Bomb Harvest 300
Plastic, resin, steel, insulated wire, recycled found objects, 380 x 600 x 900mm - $1,000 *profit from sale of artwork will be donated to bomb and mine disarmament. Point your smart phone at the QR code next to the work for more information
Harvest verb 5. to gather or reap (a ripened crop) from (the place where it has been growing). 6. to receive or reap benefits, consequences etc. 7. to remove (an organ) from the body for transplantation. Earlier this year I visited Laos and was shocked to discover the ongoing effects of unexploded ordnance, as a consequence of the Indo-China war over 40 years ago when 1 bomb was dropped every 9 minutes between1964-1973. An estimated 80 million cluster bombs remain in the ground, inhibiting access to arable land restricting the cultivation of food and leaving the population malnourished. Every year the bombs continue to yield an unwanted harvest of approx 300 human casualities. By disarming and clearing UXO the Mines Advisory Group (www.maginternational.org) allows vital land to be utilised for communities to improve their livelihoods. Act now and support the development of sustainable livelihoods by donating to www.actforpeace.org.au for ‘mine action and disarmament’. All donations received will go directly to MAG. This work is dedicated to my late grandfather Ray Wood 23.3.2011, who was always generous with his time and skills in supporting my artistic passions. Felicity trained as a visual artist graduating from Sydney College of the Arts, majoring in Glass in 1998. Felicity enjoys mixing traditional sculpting materials with recycled objects. Re-claiming and re-interpreting items to give new meanings and purpose, from what their original maker intended. She enjoys sharing her love of art and making through teaching kiln-forming and being involved in grass roots community cultural development projects. A passion is helping others find a visual form to celebrate what is important to them, and then helping them make it. She runs workshops for IKARA- a site specific theatre company specialising in transforming spaces and working with communities to create unique festivals and events.
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Stonehurst Cedar Creek Wines•INTERVENTION Will Coles - Grow up
Cast fibre glass resin, iron dust, 1200 x 1200 x 450mm - POA
Boys toys, toys for big boys. For that man that can’t grow up. The man child that can;t face adulthood head on, that still collects comics, collects toys. These acts seek to legitimise their inability to be their fathers and subconsciously seek to solve childhood issues, or maybe they just want to avoid the present. The removal of rites of passage from boys to men has left a grey area exploited by marketing of investible ‘action figurines’ and ‘collectible graphic novels’. The supposed value is an adult justification of spending on a collection. They seek closure by collecting, but is it closure of childhood or of issues within childhood? Born 1972 & raised in the English countryside. My grandfather, Norman Sillman, was a respected sculptor & therefore I always felt it in my blood. I went to Wimbledon & Glasgow Schools of Art but my grandpa taught me more than they could. I moved to Sydney in 1996 & I’ve been getting my work into peoples faces ever since. I want people to see that art has an important role to play in their lives. Art, especially mine, can be thoughtful, provocative, enriching & humorous.
Itzick Fisher
…and on the fifth day Corten steel, 2600 x 1200 x 1200mm $8,500
According to the story of creation as told in the book of Genesis in the old testament, on the fifth day God created the great creatures of the sea and every winged bird. In this work, Itzick is employing the seagull as a symbol for all birds and all the great creatures of the sea as it is a bird that lives by the sea and is dependent on the creatures of the sea for its survival. By using the plates of which these birds were cut out of and form them into some sort of a birth place or a launching pad for these birds, Fisher is creating his own “fifth day” demonstrating that creation is eternal. My first encounter with raw steel took place on the kibbutz in Israel where I lived. I was exploring as I stumbled into the metal workshop. The man in charge who knew me and my creative mind invited me in and said...go on, make something so right there and then I created my first steel structures “Don Quixote and Sancho Panza” out of metal bits which I collected around the place. On this day, this great man began a lifelong mentoring starting me first on a two years journey of filing steel shapes and learning as much as I could about this wonderful matter. It was during that time that I fell in love with steel and form... passionately, and I was just 12 years old... Sculpture in the Vineyards
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Stonehurst Cedar Creek Wines •INTERVENTION Hobart Hughes
Blind Driving the Blind Wood, 2700 x 1200 x 1700mm $5,000
The obvious reference to the Pieter Bruegel painting is really only a passing not to what is also an allegorical work. More importantly however it is the imagined strength of the driver and the overwhelming certainty that everything is going to be all right that is more pervasive. Both figures have drawn components that figure in the description of the state of consciousness that is my most consistent theme throughout all my work. In this case the fairly apparent concern of the forward thrusting and apparent disregard for safety echos the fossil fuel driven culture in which we preside. Hobart Hughes art spans performance, installation, sculpture, animation and film. Hobart’s music clip for Mental as Anything ‘Lets Cook’ was selected for an exhibition at the Museum Of Modern Art, New York in 1982. In 2008 his animation ‘Removed’ was screened at the Tate Modern in the Figuring Landscapes show. Since 1993 his installation art practice has incorporated both animation with sculpture. He has had five solo sculpture shows and has been represented in National sculpture exhibitions and has had several sculptures selected for the Art Bank collection.
Miguel Olmo -U_n_t_i_t_l_e_d Papier Mache, wood, synthetic polymer and paverpol, dimensions variable - $4,000
U_n_t_i_t_l_e_d, continues my exploration of ephemerality and questioning of notions relating to the huan condition through the use of evanescing materials such as papier-måché. The three figures in U_n_t_i_t_l_e_d are each grappling with their own circumstances, represented through the vase stand and each seek to triumph over adversity in the attempt to reach happiness, albeit fleeting. I hold a Masters of Fine Arts from COFA (2005) and a Bachelor of Fine Arts UWS(1995) with majors in Time based arts and 4D studies respectively. I work across a range of media including installation, sculpture, digital media and video. Recent works include selection into this year’s ‘Hidden, Rookwood Sculpture Walk and video projections at ‘Riverbeats Live’. I will hold a solo exhibition of recent works at the Global Gallery, Paddington in February 2011.
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Stonehurst Cedar Creek Wines •INTERVENTION Kylie Bowles
Stop and Smell the Roses Steel and wood, 2500 200mm - $500 each
x 1500 x
Have you ever wondered why there are beautiful rose bushes that appeared at the end of vineyard rows? They are planted not just for aesthetic reasons and to indicate the grape colours. Both roses and grape vines are susceptible to the same diseases. They help the vineyard team to catch sights of fungus diseases (e.g. mildew) in its early stage to apply the proper treatment. But roses are more beautiful than these reasons. In the seeming randomness of the natural world, we can find many instances of mathematical order involving the Fibonacci numbers and the golden ratio. The Fibonacci numbers are nature’s numbering system, from the leaf arrangement in plants, to the pattern of the florets of a flower, and are applicable to the growth of every living thing. I am an emerging artist with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and an Advanced Diploma of Fine Arts. In 2011, I won first prize for class 10: Rural Subject at the Royal Easter Show, and the Hidden Newington Armoury Award. I have also won the Sydney Olympic Park Residency in 2010 and 2011. In 2009 I won the acquisitive Hornsby Art Prize, and I have works acquired by the NSI TAFE collection and Westmead Hospital. I have also exhibited at Sculpture in the Vineyards, Gallery 14, Tap Gallery, Hardware Gallery, Watch House Gallery, Rookwood Cemetery, the Royal Easter Show, Westmead Hospital and the See Street Gallery.
Maurice Schlesinger Equilibrium
Steel and glass, 600 x 760 x 200mm $800
I wanted to bring a sense of play to my exploration of contrasts. I recalled the posters of Lissitsky, and wanted to impart the same joie de vivre, and juxtaposition of shapes. The grid stands away from the wall, and the glass panels seem to be floating. The black and red rods could almost be graffiti-like flourishes. Although I have retained a sense of movement, the placement of each element is balanced, and the red line draws all the elements together. A former graphic designer, Maurice Schlesinger has been sculpting intensively for the past 10 years. He has just completed an Honours degree at NAS and is a long standing member of the Sculptors Society. He has been a successful exhibitor, and one of his most recent sculptures has been acquired for the “M G Dingle and G B Hughes Collection” a bequest to the Shoalhaven City Arts Centre While I enjoy the discipline of realism, I am also drawn to experimentation and abstraction. I am on a journey of discovery, and I plan to take pleasure from every step along the way. Sculpture in the Vineyards
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Stonehurst Cedar Creek Wines •INTERVENTION Anthony Whyte
Urban Serpent
North Sydney street signs and plastic ties, 17000 x 2000 x 600mm - $10,000
Once these signs directed us around North Sydney, now reincarnated as an Urban Serpent they reflect the Serpents mythical past and our urban modernity. After leaving the National Art School in 1991 I relocated to Portugal, where I had visited in the late 1970’s. For five years I exhibited regularly in Portugal with a final solo show in London before returning to Australia. I was a finalist in the Blake Prize for religious Art twice and more recently won the ‘On the Shore; Sculpture exhibition at Thirroul. Currently I’m doing my Masters in Creative Aart at the University of Wollongong.
Petra Svoboda - Gokko – Uma (Make Believe Horse) Ceramic, 500 x 450 x 300mm $1,900ea
Petra’s practice explores the rising popularity of Anime, Manga (comics), designer toys, and computer games, and how they propel a powerful merchandising machine which generates superfluous amounts of objects often marketed as “collectable”. The inflatable form is presented as a metaphor for the superficial lightness of commercial merchandising. The transformed inflatable object also situates itself firmly in the realm of illusion and chimera, connecting itself with the fantasy genre of computer games, animation, and film. There is not only an allusion to play throughout the installation, but also a play on the senses through the apparent metamorphosis of the original plastic objects. In 2009, Petra received and Australian Postgraduate Award and Zelda Stedman Travel Scholarship to embark on an international exchange to Scandinavia. While studying at The National Academy of Arts Oslo, Petra developed her current body of work. Following her 5 month exchange in Norway, Petra went on to do a residency at The international Ceramic Research Centre in Denmark. Here she worked on concepts that related to contemporary notions of play. In 2010 Petra’s Gokko-Rando series (make believe land) was selected to be shown in ‘Sculpture Now!?!’ a survey of contemporary Australian sculpture alongside other artists such as Stelarc and Rod McRae at the Yarra Sculpture Gallery in Victoria. Petra’s work was also selected for the 2010 Sculpture in the Vineyards exhibition and she was a finalist in the Walker St Gallery Emerging Artist Awards.
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Stonehurst Cedar Creek Wines•INTERVENTION Ingrid Van Der Aa Rubber Soul
EVA Foam Rubber on wood, dimensions variable - $1,000 each Ingrid Van der Aa is a Sydney based artist. She is currently finishing her Bachelors of Visual Arts at Sydney College of the Arts in Painting. This year Ingrid has had a few group exhibition at Paper Plane Gallery, Rozelle (Shaped), Project Contemporary Art Space Wollongong (Perplexed) and exhibits some of her work at the Gate Galllery in Wollombi. In the past 10 years Ingrid has exhibited in Sydney, Central Coast and the Netherlands across sculpture, installation and painting.
Bjorn Godwin - Sunken Cathedral Fibreglass, polyester resin, instant bitumen, mixed media, dimensions variable $30,000
Inspired by Sydney’s hauntingly beautiful figs, and how they gallantly cling to, and sprout out of cracked bitumen paths and roads, Sunken Cathedral is as much about survival and regeneration as loss. As an artist Godwin has been heavily influenced by industrial processes and photography. Having worked in his father’s fibreglass factory in his early years and as a professional photographer for the past 25 years, this is reflected in his fascination with moulding and casting common everyday objects and combining them with mixed media to create dynamic properties where they can fluctuate between opaque, translucent and glowing states. Experimenting with processes for combining mixed media with resin, fibreglass and metal, Bjorn has developed a body of work that challenges and pushes viewers to look differently at common objects that surround our lives. John McDonald, one of Australia’s leading art critics has written of Godwin’s work: ‘He continues an uneasy relationship with suburbia, a maker of objects his basic forms may be comfortable and familiar but the transformations he enacts render these things edgy, satirical and slightly repellent (Sydney Morning Herald, “Spectrum, 23/24th February, 2008)
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For further information - on artists, the sculpture or 2012 participation Contact: Curator Todd Fuller on 0418 476 332 or sinthev@gmail.com For sales enquiries - please contact Caroline Van Zanten on 4998 3370 or 0430 923 358. Alternatively the individual venues may assist you. Payment is by credit card or cheque payable to Sculpture in the Vineyards. We request a one third holding deposit, followed by full payment on pick up at the close of the exhibition. The artist may deliver/install the work by negotiation, otherwise the buyer will be responsible for arranging transport. Undercliff Winery T : 4998 3322 Stonehurst Cedar Creek T : 4998 1576 Noyce Brothers T: 4998 3483 Wollombi Wines T: 4998 3427 Wollombi Village Vineyard T: 0419 997 434 The Gate Gallery T: 4998 3370
Thank you to all those who work so hard to make Sculpture in the Vineyards possible each year, to each of the host venues for their hospitality and artist support particularly during the installation period. Director Chairperson Secretary Treasurer Curator PR/Marketing Photography Technical Support
Tara Morelos Phillipa Heslop Jane Hamshere Frederic Aubineau Todd Fuller Fiona Rix Naomi Nichols, Jude Mcilveen & Todd Fuller Albert Kraan
Special thanks to Cassandra Hard Lawrie for her hard work and curatorial input in the lead up to this years exhibition. Cover image: Š Naomi Nichols Sculpture: Will Coles - Memorial to the unknown armchair general, The Gate Gallery, 2011.
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Photo: Harrison Photography, Wollombi • Sculpture: Al Phemister, Dandelion - Undercliff Winery 2011
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