[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_wp_custommenu nav_menu=”5″ el_class=”sub”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_gallery interval=”3″ images=”4234″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Thank you to those who joined us two Sundays ago for the opening of our 2018 Annual Student Exhibition and to help us celebrate 20 years in Erskineville. We were delighted to welcome the Lord Mayor of Sydney, Clover Moore, to open the event. It was a very special occasion. We can confirm we had a record number of people at the opening and continued to have strong visitor numbers throughout the rest of the week. Many of them commented on the very…

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_wp_custommenu nav_menu=”5″ el_class=”sub”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_gallery interval=”3″ images=”4210″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]We are thrilled to announce that the 2018 Tom Bass Memorial Address will be given by public artist Jennifer Turpin on the 31 October, 7pm at the Centenary Auditorium at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Continue reading for more info. 2018 Tom Bass Memorial Address COLLABORATIONS WITH NATURE – Jennifer Turpin Jennifer Turpin is a public artist with over 20 years experience creating kinetic installations engaging water, wind and light as sculptural media. Dynamic and site-specific, the artworks operate at the…

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_wp_custommenu nav_menu=”5″ el_class=”sub”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_gallery interval=”3″ images=”4129″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Our flagship event for the year – the Annual Studio Exhibition – is drawing excitingly close. The ASE is an opportunity to showcase and celebrate student work completed in classes at the school within the last 12 months. It is a chance to celebrate the progress and achievements of your work! All the teachers, board members and office staff are looking forward to seeing everybody’s work on show. This year the exhibition will run from Monday 24 – Friday 28 September 10am – 2pm. The Director’s Choice…

How long have been at TBSSS?  I started at Tom Bass early 2005. I remember how excited I was when Tom Bass looked at my portfolio and said that I have a sensitivity for figurative forms and a good eye. My first work was based on Henry Moore’s “Majesty Couple” and I turned it into my “Communication“. At that time I relocated to Sydney and was occupied with communication in a new culture and into my new family.   Where do you travel from each week? For the first 10 years I travelled from beautiful Rose…

Who could have thought that such beautiful shapes could emerge from the roughly-hewn ‘eggs’ of alabaster stone, all jumbled  together in the large wooden crate transported from Italy to the Tom Bass Studio? Carol Crawford’s recent sold out alabaster carving workshop treated a large number of new and existing TBSSS students to a weekend of carving this translucent and easily-worked stone. Carol’s love of the stone came through strongly in her teaching.  It inspired the students as they used their files and rifflers, encouraging the stone to reveal its secrets. Carol says:  “I enter another world when I…

How long have been at TBSSS?  My first class with TBSSS was sometime ago when Tom was still teaching and I had just moved down south. I then returned recently with a mould I had made way back then to cast it! This is my 3rd term. I just love coming. Where do you travel from each week? I travel from Woonona a little suburb North of Wollongong. What do you do when you’re not sculpting? When I’m not sculpting I’m teaching art classes to children from my little studio…

How long have been at TBSSS?  I started at the old Broadway studio in 1984.  Then other aspects of life intervened so I was not there again till 1994.  From then on, I kept in touch with Tom.  In 2007, I returned to the studio which was by then in Erskineville and, in 2009, I participated in one of Tom’s Master Classes.  In 2012, I was awarded a place in the Emerging Sculptor Programme. This year, 2018, is my 12th consecutive year at the studio. Where do you travel from…

  TBSSS is thrilled to be able to welcome a new teacher to the school: Monika Scarrabelotti. Students in the Wednesday AM and Thursday AM classes will already have met Monika, who has been shadowing Wendy and Christine and will take over the Thursday daytime workshop classes from Term 3. We have attached a biography of Monika below so that you can learn a bit about her history as an artist and teacher. Monika is looking forward to working with everybody next term. Please make her feel very welcome. To…

Clara Street Gallery in association with the Tom Bass Sculpture Studio School is pleased to invite you to an exhibition of work by Carol Crawford entitled there is a blaze of light in everything. Please join us at an artist talk by Carol Crawford for her exhibition there is a blaze of light in everything on Saturday 7 July at 2pm. Artist statement This exhibition is a mini retrospective of my body of work – it embodies me in sculptural form. It all started with Genesis I, seen in the exhibition in bronze from…

The Tom Bass Sculpture Studio School this year celebrates its 20 years as an independent sculpture school in Erskineville, Sydney. It moved from its first home in Sydney’s Broadway in 1998 and since then has not looked back. The number of students has been increasing steadily over the 20 year period and the work produced by the students shows a high level of learning and technical achievement resulting from personalised teaching in the atelier tradition. At the time of the move, Tom was adamant that ‘we will bring the magic…