Wed 4 Jan – Sun 8 Jan 2017
“The 5 day portraiture workshop was an amazing experience, with an amazing group of people. Everyone was thrilled with what they had achieved in the time and full of praise for the instruction and guidance from Wendy.” Janet Coyne, sculptor and participant at TBSSS Summer School 2013.
12 Jan – 28 Jan 2017
Limited places available...
Italy comes to Erskineville!
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. The aim of this carving workshop is to complete a carved sculpture and return home with a finished piece. Participants will work directly on the famous White Statuario Marble from Carrara to acquire basic skills and to understand the nature of the material.
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. The aim of this carving workshop is to complete a carved sculpture and return home with a finished piece. Participants will work directly on the famous White Statuario Marble from Carrara to acquire basic skills and to understand the nature of the material.
Intermediate to advanced
10 WEEKS (11 days – the 11th day to be organised with students)
Dates TBC
Fees include: materials, model costs, GST and 73.5 hours of teaching per term.
Sat 7 & Sun 8 October
Working sculpturally you will learn different hand building techniques that will enable you to complete small sculptures ready for bisque firing. There will be the opportunity to work with two very different clays – Porcelain and Raku, each will give you beautiful results. Instruction will also be given on applied patinas to finish your work. This workshop is suitable for all levels of experience. Materials included in workshop fees. However, there will be additional clay and firing costs for larger sculptures.
5 Jan – 28 Jan 2018
Limited places available, bookings open 8 May, 11am.
Italy comes to Erskineville!
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. The aim of this carving workshop is to complete a carved sculpture and return home with a finished piece. Participants will work directly on the famous White Statuario Marble from Carrara to acquire basic skills and to understand the nature of the material.
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. The aim of this carving workshop is to complete a carved sculpture and return home with a finished piece. Participants will work directly on the famous White Statuario Marble from Carrara to acquire basic skills and to understand the nature of the material.
Fri 19 - Sun 21 January 2018
Friday 19 - 10.00 - 5.30
Saturday 20 - 9.00 - 5.30
Sunday 21 - 9.00 - 4.00
A 3 day hands-on intensive course run within cooee of the world heritage area of the Jenolan Caves, the ideal setting to focus on developing your confidence and skills to communicate ideas in a non-representational form.
Drawing on the natural world, both familiar and unfamiliar, you will take the steps to form-up a 3D work using modelling materials ( clay, plasticine or wax), fabricating materials ( cardboard, steel, balsa wood) or found objects.
Contemplate the surrounding landscape or bring a sculpture, drawing or an image of an idea you would like to scale up or develop and Ingrid will assist you to create a work in three dimensions.
Selected works can be kiln fired and welding is available to a limited number of students. All levels of experience are encouraged.
Early-bird available until 5 Jan
Term 1 2019 - Wednesdays
This new 10 week workshop will give participants the opportunity to work collaboratively on a sculpture project with the aim of submitting the sculpture to sculpture prizes in 2019. Facilitated by senior TBSSS teacher and regular prize entrant and finalist Wendy Black, Wendy will guide the group through the process of making a collaborative sculpture. As a group, participants will come up with a concept to match the prize brief, test, experiment and make the sculpture/s and then go through the process of documenting, writing and submitting the application/s.
Limited places available for this workshop (max 8 students). Standard workshop materials covered, any special materials will need to be financed by the group.
Saturday 23rd November
This is an invaluable opportunity for senior students and emerging artists to receive mentoring from sculptor and TBSSS guest teacher Jim Croke. This is an intimate class - only six participants (per session) will have the opportunity to attend and it will take form as a group critique.
Participants will each have 20mins allocated to show and discuss their work with Jim. Jim will be able to offer guidance, advice and support on how you can push your sculpture to the next level. As this will be done in a group environment, participants will benefit and learn from hearing Jim speak with each participant.
About Jim Croke
With over thirty-five years of exhibiting experience, Jim Croke has an admirable reputation and a revered presence in the Sydney sculpture scene. His works have been acquired by the University of Sydney Union Collection, the UTS Union Collection, Goulburn Regional Art Gallery and Artbank, among other Australian collections. Until recently Jim was Head of Sculpture at the National Art School, Sydney and he continues to teach special courses at NAS. Jim has always had teaching as a prominent part of his career, taking him around Australia and Europe.
