Tom Bass Sculpture Studio School
1A Clara Street, Erskineville, NSW, Australia
Monday 7 July - Friday 11 July
Mon - Thu:10am - 2pm, Fri: 10am - 3pm
Fees: $790.30
This is an intensive workshop that aims at improving student’s observational skills, sculpture techniques and knowledge of human anatomy and form. This course is specifically designed to introduce students to sculptural methods that help simplify the complexities of the human figure.
Over the course students will sculpt from life a ¾ life-size torso with water-based clay. Group lessons and daily individual critiques will help to guide them through this process. Students will then prepare their sculpture to be kiln fired locally at their convenience. Students are to be aware that the kiln firing process can be unpredictable in results and the main goal of the workshop is learning how to improve their sculpting from life skills.
This workshop is now fully booked. Please email admin@tbsss.org.au, if you would like to be added to the waitlist.
Tom Bass Sculpture Studio School
1A Clara Street, Erskineville, NSW, Australia
Monday 7 July - Friday 11 July
Mon - Thu: 4 - 8pm, Fri: 4 - 9pm
Fees: $790.30
This is an intensive workshop that aims at improving student’s observational skills, sculpture techniques and knowledge of human anatomy and form. This course is specifically designed to introduce students to sculptural methods that help simplify the complexities of the human figure.
Over the course students will sculpt from life a ¾ life-size torso with water-based clay. Group lessons and daily individual critiques will help to guide them through this process. Students will then prepare their sculpture to be kiln fired locally at their convenience. Students are to be aware that the kiln firing process can be unpredictable in results and the main goal of the workshop is learning how to improve their sculpting from life skills.
Tom Bass Sculpture Studio School
1A Clara Street, Erskineville, NSW, Australia
Fri 10 Oct - Sun 12 Oct, 2025
Fees: $570.30
Over three days, learn the skills needed to carve your own unique sculpture in limestone. Guest teacher Paul Hopmeier is an established sculptor and artist and brings his wealth of knowledge to this popular workshop. Enjoy carving in a group atmosphere, beginners to advanced welcome. Fee will include stone.
This workshop is now fully booked. Please email admin@tbsss.org.au, if you would like to be added to the waitlist.
Tom Bass Sculpture Studio School
1A Clara Street, Erskineville, NSW, Australia
5 – 10 January 2026
You will learn to use traditional hand-tools and techniques for carving, including methods of transferring ideas onto a piece of marble and finding form within the stone. Participants will work directly on the famous White Statuario Marble from Carrara to acquire basic skills and to understand the nature of the material.
Tom Bass Sculpture Studio School
1A Clara Street, Erskineville, NSW, Australia
13 – 18 January 2026
You will learn to use traditional hand-tools and techniques for carving, including methods of transferring ideas onto a piece of marble and finding form within the stone. Participants will work directly on the famous White Statuario Marble from Carrara to acquire basic skills and to understand the nature of the material.
This is an Open Workshop intensive which will be run by TBSSS teacher Wendy Black. This workshop is for recent or previously enrolled students – not suitable for new students. Students have the chance to work on any project they choose and in the media of their choosing. It may be a new project or it could be a sculpture that you are already working on. These two days are a wonderful chance to have uninterrupted Studio time over the autumn break! Places are limited.
Tom Bass Sculpture Studio School
1A Clara Street, Erskineville, NSW, Australia
Sat 11 & Sun 12 April
Wax is a wonderful medium and has many unique properties that make it ideal for sculpting. Wax can be used as a liquid, as a paste, warm (like plasticine), or cold (carvable). During this workshop students will be shown various techniques to utilize these variable states of the medium. Students will be shown how to construct a wax armature, explore modelling techniques and the use of tools for smoothing and texturing.
This is an Open Workshop intensive which will be run by TBSSS teacher Christine Crimmins. This workshop is for recent or previously enrolled students – not suitable for new students. Students have the chance to work on any project they choose and in the media of their choosing. It may be a new project or it could be a sculpture that you are already working on. These two days are a wonderful chance to have uninterrupted Studio time over the autumn break! Places are limited.
Tom Bass Sculpture Studio School
1A Clara Street, Erskineville, NSW, Australia
Sat 18 & Sun 19 April
Wax is a wonderful medium and has many unique properties that make it ideal for sculpting. Wax can be used as a liquid, as a paste, warm (like plasticine), or cold (carvable). During this workshop students will be shown various techniques to utilize these variable states of the medium. Students will be shown how to construct a wax armature, explore modelling techniques and the use of tools for smoothing and texturing.
