7 11, 2015

Last days at Rylstone Wood symposium

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The last few days have been exhilarating, full of discovery and developing new techniques within a 10 day timeframe to deliver your Artistic interpretation of your proposal for the Rylstone Wood symposium that will displayed as Public Art in the towns of Rylstone, Kandos Gulgong and Mudgee. The community have shown us great support in coming [...]

5 11, 2015

The significance of these carvings

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A little background first. Kandos - The town established around 1914 when the cement works was set up to take advantage of limestone being conveyed from the quarries by means of an enormous aerial ropeway. This was stored in silos and transported by one means being train, snaking through the mountains to its many destinations, [...]

4 11, 2015

Form and shape of things to come …

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The start of the day and the start of a large collection of tools. The form and layout/mapping out has been done on each of the logs. Primarily the chainsaw was used to cut away large chunks of timber then throughout the next stage I have been using various power tools, hand tools to give [...]

2 11, 2015

Rylstone Wood Symposium

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At the start of the symposium a couple of questions were asked: Was there a particular moment when you knew that wood was going to be an important medium to you as an artist? When I had proof of concept, realising that I wanted to develop the idea of the Totem Poles, then it was [...]

1 11, 2015

Rylstone Wood Symposium first couple of days

By |2016-11-03T20:00:55+11:00November 1st, 2015|Events|0 Comments

Making good progress with my sculpture at the Wood Symposium. I am off the chainsaw and grinder today and going old school with a hammer and chisel. So therapeutic. A full list of the sculptures attending can be found at www.rylstonesculptures.org/blog.  

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