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Category Archives: Sculpture
I Found it at the Dock
Barbara Rowe artist and Melburnian Docklands resident, uses material found throughout the Docklands area for her art. Rowe has also taken inspiration from the immediate surrounds to produce these woven forms. Harbour Ball (2012-13) palm inflorescence. Found: Harbour Esplanade. Technique: … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Sculpture, Textiles
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All the Camp Dogs Sing This Song
Ku (2012) [Natural ochres with acrylic binder on milkwood] by Garry Namponan; and Ku (2012) [Natural ochres and charcoal with acrylic binder on milkwood] by Roderick Yunkaporta. Garry Namponan (born 1960+) is a Ku (camp dog) sculpture artist, home is … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Gallery Art, Sculpture, Textiles
Tagged #Indigenous artists, a, Camp dogs, Garry Namponan, Indigenous art, Jamu, Ku, Lena Yarinkura, Roderick Yunkporta
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Compare the Pair #19 | This is Wild Man
Australian sculptor Ronald “Ron” Mueck (born 1958, in Melbourne) grew up in the family business of puppetry and doll-making. After spending time working in the family industry, Mueck turned to sculpture. He first came to public attention with his sculpture … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Artists A-Z, Gallery Art, Sculpture, Street Artists A-Z, StreetArt, StreetArtists
Tagged #Melbourne, Hyperrealism, Oksep, Ron Mueck, street art, street artists, Wild Man
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Katnjupayi Benson | A Tale of Two Sittings
Katnjupayi Benson (Ngaanyatjarra) born c. 1933 comes from Papulankutja (Blackstone Community, 300 kms west of the Western Australia (W.A.), Northern Territory and South Australia borders); and spends time between Blackstone and the Docker River communities. She began to make baskets … Continue reading
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All You Need is Love
American Pop Art movement artist Robert Indiana was born Robert Clark on 13 September, 1928 in New Castle, Indiana. His work often consists of bold, simple, iconic images and his best known image is the word LOVE in upper-case letters, … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Sculpture, StreetFurniture, Urban Art
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You Must Be An Angel | I Can See It In Your Eyes
Deborah Halpern (born in Melbourne in 1957) is a public art sculptor, mosaicist and ceramic artist. Halpern lectures and conducts workshops in ceramics in Melbourne. Her parents Sylvia and Arthur Halpern, were ceramists and artists and two of the founding … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Ceramics, Mosaics, Sculpture
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Emily Floyd | The Installer I Most Enjoyed
Born Melbourne in 1972, Emily Floyd is Senior Lecturer in the School of Fine Art at Monash Art Design & Architecture (MADA), Monash University. She is also a 2015 Sidney Myer Creative Fellow. Floyd has been working in sculpture, installation, … Continue reading
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Tuby or not to be | That is the question
French sculptor Jean-Baptiste Tuby was born in Rome in 1635 and died in Paris in 1900. Tuby served Louis XIV of France and was regarded as one of the premier court sculptors of his time. His art is remarkable for … Continue reading
Posted in Angels, Art, Sculpture
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No Idea On Kohei Nawa Red Deer
Kohei Nawa was born in 1975. He is one of Japan’s new generation of high-flying young artists. Over the last several years he has exhibited at the Saatchi Gallery, London, the Joan Miro Foundation, Barcelona, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, and in … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Artists A-Z, Gallery Art, Glass, Sculpture, StillLife
Tagged Kohei Nawa, PixCell Red Deer, Pixcells, Red Deers
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Discoveries & Memories of the Statues of the Tuileries
The famous Tuileries Garden are on almost everyone’s Parisian adventurers ‘bucket list’, and it is very easy to see why. The Tuileries were named after tile-yards (Tuileries) on the site, prior to a Palace was built for Catherine de Medici. … Continue reading
There is Nothing Harder at Task for Haida the Mask
Among the Haida people from the Pacific Northwest of North America existed secret religious societies that performed dances in which they wore wooden masks or carried wooden puppets that represented gagid, or the spirits of the forest. A gagid mask … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Carvings, Collectibles, DarkArt, DecorativeArts, Sculpture
Tagged gagid, Haida Mask, Haida Masks, potlatch
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Bear With Me – You’ll Adore These
Paola Pivi (b. 1971 in Milan, Italy) is an Italian multi-media artist who lives and works in Anchorage, Alaska. In her work, she uses a wide range of art techniques, such as photography, sculpture and performance. Some of her works … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Gallery Art, Sculpture
Tagged #Installations, art installations, Golden Lion Award, multi-media art, polar bears, Venice Biennale
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Why Not Take Part in Viewing Some Drive-By Art
Various artworks have decorated Melbourne’s Peninsula Link Freeway. These sculptures and art pieces have been placed at various sites along the route. A total of 14 sculptures have been commissioned over the next 25 years and will be rotated to … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Sculpture
Tagged Dean Colls, Louise Paramour, Panorama Station, Peninsula Freeway artworks, Phil Price, Rex Australis, Tree of Life
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Tennyo “Magokoro” – The Goddess of Sincerity
Tennyo “Magokoro” (The Goddess of Sincerity) is a statue constructed by Gengen Sato, who spent more than 10 years at the task after it was commissioned by Mitsukoshi Ltd. Consisting principally of Japanese cypress “Hinoki” about 500 years old that … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Carvings, Oriental Art, Sculpture
Tagged Gengen Sato, Goddess of Sincerity, Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi, Tennyo Magokoro, Tokyo
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Down For a Ride With the Girl On a Slide
Australian painter, sculptor and teacher John Stuart Dowie was born on 15 January 1915, in the Adelaide suburb of Prospect. He was one of South Australia’s most respected sculptors and his works appear all over Adelaide. One of these include: “Girl on … Continue reading
Posted in Sculpture, StreetFurniture, Urban Art
Tagged #Adelaide, bronze, bronze sculptures, John Dowie, rundle Mall, statues
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