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 life study and she continued study with Tom until his passing in 2010.

In recent years, Christine has completed numerous sculpture commissions, including portraits, and exhibited at the Clara Street Gallery in Sydney.  She was a member of the inaugural management committee of The Tom Bass Sculpture Studio School, when it incorporated in 2003.

Christine feels indebted to Tom Bass, particularly in that he passed on a respect for sculptural traditions and principles  and the knowledge and the understanding this brings.  Tom’s work dealt intensively with the human condition in all its forms, but he was always aware of the impact of change.  This resulted in an intriguing confluence of the traditional and the modem in Tom’s work.

Christine is interested in exploring basic, familiar forms from an ‘abstract’ viewpoint in her sculptures.  Christine has long been drawn to the Sydney Opera House and Utzon’s design concept and construction methods, whereby the sails were visualized as sections of a whole sphere and so capturing an integrity inherent in their having originated from the same overall shape.  Her own work currently features an appreciation of these methods and includes cement casting and also assemblage.