[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=”10488″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Congratulations to TBSSS Wednesday AM student Simon Harris who was recently selected as a finalist in the Eden Gardens ‘Eden Unearthed’ sculpture competition. Eden Gardens is a large garden centre in Ryde, owned by patrons of the arts Anna and Simon Ainsworth. Simon’s sculpture, Naiad, was constructed with Pal Tiya sculpting cement. Pal Tiya can be sculpted like wet clay for the first half hour after mixing, then it can be carved and filed as it hardens. It is cured by keeping it wet,…

[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=”10439″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Tom Bass Sculpture Studio School was founded by Tom Bass AM in 1974. The School started at a magnificent workshop space on Broadway.  Tom occupied the top floor with a Howard Lane entrance that took you up a wonderful old timber (square) spiral staircase to a studio flooded by light. When Tom first took over the space, pigeons had been it’s occupants so there was a lot of cleaning up to do.  He taught there for 24 years till redevelopment forced him…

[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=”10538″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]It’s been a busy couple of months for TBSSS teachers, students and alumni, whose work has been included in sculpture prizes and exhibitions. We thought we’d share news of recent achievements, as well as extend our congratulations. TBSSS guest teacher Ingrid Morley, pictured above left, recently exhibited as part of the ever popular Sculpture by the Sea with her work ‘The Past is Just Behind’. If you missed Ingrid’s work at SXS you’re in luck, as Ingrid currently has a solo exhibition showing at Defiance Gallery until 16…

[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=”10139″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Congratulations to regular guest teacher Ingrid Morley who was the major prize winner of Sculptures in the Garden 2023 with her sculpture ‘Keeper’ (pictured above). Sculptures in the Garden has been running in Mudgee since 2011 and is an annual 16-day sculpture exhibition that brings together established and emerging sculptors from across Australia to showcase their work. TBSSS was very well represented in the 2023 exhibition. Not only was Ingrid the major prize winner, but TBSSS teacher Wendy Black exhibited two sculptures, alongside TBSSS students…

[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=”10095″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]On Saturday 23 September, we were excited to open our Studio doors to celebrate the opening of the 2023 Annual Studio Exhibition. We were thrilled to see so many students, friends and family, and members of the public present. This year the exhibition featured 60 sculptures completed by students over the past year, everything from the abstract to the figure, animals and reliefs, works in plaster and bronze, sculptures carved in alabaster, limestone and marble. A big congratulations to everybody who exhibited this…

[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=”10052″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Congratulations to regular TBSSS student Christophe Cornard on being a finalist in the 2023 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize with his sculpture Intrepide 132 (pictured above). Presented at the Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf, the exhibition features 51 finalists representing a mix of emerging and established artists from across Australia as well as international artists from the USA, United Kingdom, and New Zealand. Exhibition runs 28 September 2023 – 5 November 2023.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]

[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=”9455″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]We have a NEW teacher joining us in Term 4. Long time TBSSS friend and alumni Peter Bartlett will be joining the TBSSS team and will be teaching the Thursday EVE Workshop whilst Arielle Morris is on maternity leave. About Peter: Peter studied sculpture at Elam School of Fine Arts at Auckland University before working with Theatre Corporate and the Mercury Theatre in Auckland as a designer. Peter has a long association with TBSSS, he was a student under Tom Bass AM, back in 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=”10184″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Please join Elena Murgia to celebrate the opening of her solo exhibition on Saturday 4 November 3 – 5pm – all welcome! About the exhibition: As a fashion designer in Italy driven by both fabrics and beauty I often wrangled with the dichotomy between quality and image. Image can be compelling, playful, even ephemeral and too easily can become shallow. Quality is, for me, a given, the true substance of things without which inner beauty is absent. In today’s world the tension of…

[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=”9969″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Please join us for the fifth Tom Bass Memorial Address on Thursday 5 October, 6 – 7pm at the Nelson Meers Foundation Auditorium, Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney.  From Pheidias, Polykleitos and Praxiteles to Michelangelo, Picasso and Rodin, the Classical ideal and form of ancient Greek sculpture has long inspired and influenced the creativity of later artists. This public lecture given by University of Sydney’s Associate Professor Lesley Beaumont is offered in memory of TBSSS founder Tom Bass AM. The lecture traces the echoes…

[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=”9565″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] We invite you to join sculptors and long-term TBSSS students Chris Atichian, Wendy Holz and Christopher Salvemini to celebrate the opening of their group exhibition Steel Works this Sunday 23 July from 4 – 6pm at Clara Street Gallery.  About the exhibition: Steel Works showcases sculptures completed in the medium of steel. Over the past few years, the exhibiting artists have produced varied welded steel works as part of the National Art School short courses program. The exhibited works explore both the physicality and versatility of the medium. Mild…