Teachers
Karen Alexander
Karen Alexander has been teaching at Tom Bass Sculpture Studio School since 2015. Karen teaches the Saturday AM Workshop. Karen began sculpture at the original Broadway Studio with Tom Bass, which provided a rich learning environment and where she was drawn to the wonderful shapes and forms of the life figure. Whilst looking after and bringing up her young family, Karen attended many workshops and Life Studies with Tom Bass at Broadway and then from 2003 at the Erskineville Studio, where she began exploring public sculpture. During this immersive sculpture…
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Peter Bartlett
Peter Bartlett 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 Broadway studio days, he has also been a collaborator on TBSSS public art projects (Rainbow Serpent at Erskineville Public School), as well as completed artist commissions (Cricket Captains for Cootamundra, and currently working on bust of William Davis for St Patricks Church in The Rocks.)…
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Wendy Black
Wendy Black began to study sculpture with Tom in 1997. Tom became her mentor, and Wendy had the privilege of assisting Tom in his last commission. She is now a senior teacher at the Tom Bass Sculpture Studio School and teaches regular open workshops on Wednesdays. She has also taught the life study, soapstone carving and corporate workshops. From 2014 – 2021 she curated the Clara Street Gallery, a small space within the Tom Bass Studio School. In recent years she has experimented with creating animals with wire and twine,…
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Christine Crimmins
Christine Crimmins has been teaching at Tom Bass Sculpture Studio School since 2012, she teaches the Tuesday EVE and Wednesday EVE Workshops. Christine was increasingly drawn to the world of painting, drawing and sculpture, after earlier having followed a professional path. She experienced 3 months in Sienna, Italy, studying painting and language and then gained a diploma from the Julian Ashton Art School in Sydney, studying also at the Warringah Print Workshop. In the 80s and 90s, she came under the tutelage of Tom Bass doing his master classes in sculpture and focusing on the…
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Arielle Morris
Arielle Morris has been a teacher at TBSSS since 2019. Arielle teaches the Thursday EVE Workshop. Arielle is a figurative sculptor whose practice centres on the human form, its gestures, tensions and emotional undercurrents. She works mainly in clay and plaster, with occasional ventures into resin and glass. Her forms sit somewhere between the intimate and the archetypal. In 2018 she was a finalist in the Tom Bass Prize for Figurative Sculpture, and she has exhibited regularly at Clara Street Gallery. From 2021 to 2024 Arielle co-curated Clara Street Gallery…
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Elena Murgia
Elena Murgia has been teaching at Tom Bass Sculpture Studio School since 2024, she teaches the Monday EVE and Tuesday AM Stone Carving Workshops and she is also the curator of Clara Street Gallery. Born in Sardinia Italy, Elena Murgia graduated at Florence University in Fashion, majoring in Fabric Design. After an intense period in that industry she undertook ceramic studies in London at Hampstead School of Art and her sculpting journey started in 2017 at Tom Bass Sculpture School in Sydney. In 2019 she furthered her study of sculpture…
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Jenny Pollak
Jenny Pollak has been a Life Study guest teacher at TBSSS since 2017. Jenny is a full time practising artist and poet working primarily in photography, sculpture and installation. She has held many one person shows and taken part in numerous group exhibitions and artist residencies. In 2009 she received an Australia Council New Work Grant, which allowed her to create several bodies of work as Artist in Residence at the Royal Botanic Gardens. In 2011 she won both the Facade Project (a National Public Art Award at the Visual…
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Monika Scarrabelotti
Monika Scarrabelotti has been teaching at TBSSS since 2018. Monika teaches the Thursday AM and Thursday PM Workshops, and occasionally teaches the Life Study. Monika began teaching with the sculpture department at the National Art School in 2017. She received a Bachelor of Fine Art in sculpture at NAS in 2013 and recently completed the Masters of Fine Art program at the same school. Specializing in the figure, Monika has spent the last few years fine-tuning skills in traditional and contemporary techniques of clay modeling, ceramic sculpture, mold making and…
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