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Artists Statement Sculptural Portraits

After many years of just admiring this simple sandstone mounting block outside the Ross Town Hall, I started to wonder just who may have stood upon it. This then lead me to this final result of 5 sculptural portraits which depict small parts of the lives of these people.

   


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sandstone
20 x 17 x 25cm
$850

     
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Woodcutter
Sandstone
26 x 17 x 24cm
$850

     
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Shearer
Sandstone
26 x 17 x 24cm
$850

     
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Blacksmith
Sandstone
25 x 17 x 23cm
$850
SOLD

     
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Trapper
Sandstone
23 x 17 x 23cm
$850

     
     
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Cornerstone 2005
Sandstone
28 x 30 x 22cm
SOLD

     
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Reformed 2005
Sandstone
40 x 28 x 28cm
SOLD

     
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Caught
sandstone
36 x 20 x 25cm

     
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Incarcerated
sandstone
20 x 22 x 18cm
SOLD

     
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Punished
sandstone
28 x 39 x 28cm

     
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Freedom
sandstone
36 x 25 x 52cm

     
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studies and travel
 
- 2007

Technical Officer Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery

1989

Associate Diploma of Art

1977 Trade Certificate
 
solo exhibitions
 
2008

Ross Colville Gallery, Hobart

2006

Sculptures Colville Gallery, Hobart

1995

Imagined & Imaged Snake Pit Gallery, Launceston

1992

Gallery One, Launceston

 
group exhibitions
 
2007

2nd Gallery Artists Anniversary Show Colville Gallery Hobart

2002

The Life & Death Show Stables Gallery Launceston

1996

Prints on Show Snake Pitt Gallery, Launceston

1993

Inaugural Exhibition Snake Pit Gallery, Launceston

1991

Group Exhibition Gallery Two, Launceston