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SCULPERE NEWSLETTER June 2015 Association of Sculptors of Victoria ABN 99 298 227 922 We cooperate as an association to advance the practice of sculpture and the reputation and appreciation of sculpture and sculptors in the community. This is regardless of whether or not we make a living from sculpture and regardless of our preferred style or medium. To this end we support artists’ moral rights; we advocate a professional attitude to the production and presentation of work and encourage the artistic and intellectual stimulation of interaction amongst artists of all persuasions. Jan Indrans, President ASV, is wandering in foreign parts - he is sending us images from his trip - I’m sure we can prevail upon him to talk about them when he returns... it all looks fascinating. Meetings are held at the Ashburton Baptist Church Meeting Rooms entered from the Marquis Street car park Ashburton. We commence at 7:30pm • 15 July - another show and tell - this time the topic of sculptors’ websites - either build your own or get one made and what does the profile page on the ASV site do for you? We will have a web designer on hand. Fred Fair will give a talk entitled Building an Artist’s Website. Fred is the webmaster for the Contemporary Art Society. • The activity for August will be a visit to Meridian Foundry in Fitzroy. It will be during the day of Wednesday the 12th August. Visits to foundries are always well attended so make sure you book a place by calling Gillian on 0412 122 884 or email gmps.govan@ bigpond .com • in September we can expect a wide ranging talk from our president on his experiences overseas and the ideas they inspired Gillian Dates for Your Diary Letter from the President ...................1 Dates for your Diary ........................... 1 Report on the June meeting ........... 2 Annual & Awards Exhibition 2015. 3 News scattered throughout ............ 3 ASV Office bearers .............................. 4 In this issue Images from the traveller Please Note!!! The date of the meeting on websites has changed! It is now on the 15th July!
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SCULPERE NEWSLETTER June 2015Association of Sculptors of VictoriaABN 99 298 227 922
We cooperate as an association to advance the practice of sculpture and the reputation and appreciation of sculpture and sculptors in the community. This is regardless of whether or not we make a living from sculpture
and regardless of our preferred style or medium. To this end we support artists’ moral rights; we advocate a professional attitude to the production and presentation of work and encourage the artistic and intellectual
stimulation of interaction amongst artists of all persuasions.
Jan Indrans, President ASV, is wandering in foreign parts - he is sending us images from his trip - I’m sure we can prevail upon him to talk about them when he returns... it all looks fascinating.
Meetings are held at the Ashburton Baptist Church Meeting Rooms entered from the Marquis Street car park Ashburton. We commence at 7:30pm
• 15July - another show and tell - this time the topic of sculptors’ websites - either build your own or get one made and what does the profile page on the ASV site do for you? We will have a web designer on hand. Fred Fair will give a talk entitled Building an Artist’s Website. Fred is the webmaster for the Contemporary Art Society.
• The activity for August will be a visit to Meridian Foundry in Fitzroy. It will be during the day of Wednesday the 12th August. Visits to foundries are always well attended so make sure you book a place by calling Gillian on 0412 122 884 or email gmps.govan@bigpond .com
• inSeptemberwe can expect a wide ranging talk from our president on his experiences overseas and the ideas they inspired
Gillian
DatesforYourDiary
Letter from the President ...................1
Dates for your Diary ........................... 1
Report on the June meeting ........... 2
Annual & Awards Exhibition 2015. 3
News scattered throughout ............ 3
ASV Office bearers .............................. 4
Inthisissue
Imagesfromthetraveller
PleaseNote!!!Thedateofthemeetingonwebsiteshaschanged!Itisnowonthe15thJuly!
TheJuneMeetingA full house of interested members attended the ASV meeting held on June 10th to see and hear the presentation by Iranian ceramic artist Elnaz Nourizadeh. Born in Tehran in 1985, Elnaz arrived in Melbourne in 2003. Pottery and ceramics were her early interest and passion and in Iran she was fortunate to study under the supervision of Maryam Salour one of Iran’s leading ceramists and sculptors. Elnaz continued to work as her assistant until she came to Australia. She learnt sculpting, hand building and the techniques of glazing from Maryam as well as how to control kilns (electric and gas) and two types of firing (reduction and oxidation). Haj Abdollah Mehri one of the greatest masters of traditional pottery in Iran showed Elnaz the finer points of throwing. Elnaz studied Industrial Design at the university in Tehran and took extra ceramic courses about glaze chemistry and types of minerals and dust used in glazes and their effects, and then started to do ceramic
work and also pottery and ceramic teaching as a full time job.“I love lines and surfaces” she said “ and I think it’s because of my industrial design background, but recently I have noticed I like to show movement in my sculpture and my ceramic vessels. I make mostly ceramic tableware and when I have a good idea I create a sculpture. I experiment with different glazes and forms on my tableware” she said. “Each of my sculptures manifest a period in my life; emotions, everything I feel, see and experience. Overtime my sculptures have transitioned from statements about restrictions in my life to ideas of freedom and breaking the barriers. I get my ideas from everyday things I see in the streets, music I listen to, the news I read or a new artwork that catches my eye. I prefer clay as my main medium because it gives me freedom and allows me to create any shape I desire and refine the
shape as it dries. In this period of my life most of my feelings and emotions were affected by the move to the new environment and my sculptures demonstrate all previously hidden feelings”In “Camouflage” - the first sculpture Elnaz made in Melbourne – she tried to display her feelings about all the people around her in that period. “I have shown a person who prefers to close his eyes and camouflage his humorous, cheerful and colourful personality behind a grey mask that can still reveal some of his character through a little smile. But my new sculptures have different feelings, in the Punch Out, I tried to represents a person (the bird) breaking out from the rules and boundaries and leaving them behind for a free life. Also you can see the same reaction in both of my Break Out sculptures, in one of them the man surrounded in the box is pushing the box to break out and in the other one the lady has broken the box and come out of it and her hands have turned to wings ready to fly” she said . “I try to use more neutral and earthy colours on my sculpture but as I like colours, occasionally I use some bold colour to change the focus point or add extra meaning and sometimes use different textures” she said. Elnaz was then asked by potters at the meeting to give more specific information as to how she achieved some of the textured surfaces on her work. “In my Punch Out sculpture” she said “ I dissolved the clay with vinegar, to get a rusty and rough texture on the surface. First I made my sculpture and when it completely dried, before the firing, I applied vinegar on the surface as dry clay absorbs vinegar more and
gives a better result. Different types of clay have different amounts of sodium carbonate or sodium bicarbonate. Sodium carbonate reacts with acetic acid (CH3COOH) in vinegar and releases carbon dioxide, the carbon dioxide bubbles on the surface to make this texture, when the surface was dry I fired it once then used raw minerals and oxides like nickel, manganese and Chromium oxide to paint it. I mixed them with water and a little transparent glaze. I sprayed a very thin layer of transparent glaze on the surface but I brushed clear glaze inside the holes to make them glossy. I also used glossy glazes on the bird to move the eyes from the holes to the bird. I’ve used one of my mixed glaze combinations to get the blue green colour pattern”.Michael Meszaros thanked Elnaz for her most interesting presentation, and she received enthusiastic applause for it from all present. Elnaz can be contacted at. [email protected] more examples of her work on the web. www.elnaz.info
Report by Gordon Robertson
Elnaz Nourizadeh - Camouflage (Front)-2
Elnaz Nourizadeh - Camouflage (back)
AnnualandAwardsExhibition2015
We not only have a tremendous venue for the Annual Exhibition and Awards at 600 Bourke Street (Bourke Place) we also have the dates: 28th September to 16th October.
Entry forms are prepared and on the ASV website. They will be posted out with your membership renewals - probably to arrive on Thursday 2nd July!
Our opener will be Andrew Rogers - creator of geoglyphs and all round international artist... his work is on show at McClelland Gallery - see page four of the newsletter.
The external judge for the Andor Meszaros Prize is Graeme Wilkie, Art Director of Qdos Gallery in Lorne.
This year work will be shown in two sections only - with sculptors’ work grouped together where possible. We hope that this will make the layout
more comprehensible to our visitors and look forward to feedback from sculptors. There will need to be adjustments to the judging to accommodate this - stand by for further information.
In the mean time - get working, get images and entries in, it will be a great show!
Gillian Govan, [email protected]
The Memo, HealesvilleFRI 3 JUL - TUE 28 JUL
There is still hope, still time… it is still possible if we can just understand the value of what we already have.
The Memo, HealesvilleFRI 3 JUL - TUE 28 JUL
There is still hope, still time… it is still possible if we can just understand the value of what we already have.
The Memo, HealesvilleFRI 3 JUL - TUE 28 JUL
There is still hope, still time… it is still possible if we can just understand the value of what we already have.
ArtistsSelectedforSculpturebytheSea,Bondi2015Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2015 received 500 submissions, from 41 countries and 6 territories around the world, including Australia. After difficult deliberations the curatorial panel have selected the artists who will exhibit at this year’s exhibition. While we won’t release the names of the artists until closer to the show, we are happy to share with you this world map of where the artists are from. Read more... http://www.sculpturebythesea.com/artists/bondi-%281%29/exhibition-artists.aspx?mc_cid=11b17d9c40&mc_eid=04d7418c80
http://www.harboursculpture.com.au/ is showing from 30 July to 9 August in Sydney
TesselaarSculpturePrize2015SculptureamongtheTulipsThe 8th annual prize for outdoor sculpture. Applications closing Mon July 13.Guidelines and applications available from the curator Mark Cowie on [email protected] or PO Box 1086, Daylesford Vic 3460.
Issa Ouattara Home-coming exhibition27th and 28th June at the Historic Church Franklinford (10 minutes from
Daylesford/Hepburn Springs)9.30 to 5pm Saturday & Sunday
Franklinford Church@Franklinford intersection cnr Hepburn-Newstead Rd &Daylesford-Newstead Rd 3 kilometres from Lavandula
KingstonArts offers three professional galleries for artists to exhibit their work and encourages applications by both emerging and established artists. Applications close Friday 25th September 5pmIf you are interested in applying please download application form from:http://www.kingstonarts.com.au/OPPORTUNITIES/Exhibit-with-Kingston-Arts
Don’t forget the
ContemporaryArtSociety’sBroochShow
touring Fitzroy and South Yarra libraries. 2 June to 25 September
More information from http://contemporaryartsociety.org.
au/exhibitions/brooch-show
ASV Committee
President
Jan Indrans 0422 168 228
Vice President
Michael Meszaros
bh 9853 9610
Treasurer
John Ride 9499 2928
Secretary and Public Officer
John Bishop 9885 2660
Immediate Past President
Gillian Govan 9579 1221
Committee Members
Monica Mauer Jan
Jenny Rickards
Jackie Mackinnon
ASV Coordinators
Monthly Activities:
Position vacant - can you help?
Membership:
Robert Kendi
Web Site Contact and Newsletter:
Jenny Rickards 9836 2738
Exhibitions:
Annual and Awards Exhibition:
Gillian Govan 9579 1221
Herring Island:
Jenny Rickards 9836 2738
MIFGS:
Mark Cowie 5348 5696
Tesselaar Sculpture Prize:
Mark Cowie 5348 5696
Publicity:
Jackie Mackinnon
InterstateSculptureGroupsNew South Wales www.sculptorssociety.com
Queensland www.sculptorsqld.org.au
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McClellandGalleryandSculptureParkare running two exhibitions, 29 May 2015 - 06 September 2015
Elemental and Andrew Rogers, A Retrospective: Maquettes 1996 - 2015. Ron Mueck’s monumental Wild man will return to display, and the McClelland Sculpture Survey will remain open until 19 July 2015.
Curator Talk: Robert Lindsay Thursday 18 June 2015, 11.00amMcClelland’s Director Robert Lindsay will talk about the exhibition
ANDREW ROGERS: A Retrospective: Maquettes 1996 - 2015
