I studied architecture before launching my own art and architecture office Studio Shand. My sculptural work has shown at/commissioned for exhibitions inclusive of La Biennale di Venezia, Vivid Sydney, Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Montalto Sculpture Prize, Fisher’s Ghost Art Award and Sculpture by the Sea. Throughout I have experimented across media, to realise a particular configuration of form engendered in essential materials, geometries and tectonics. I live and work on Gadigal land – my practice concerns itself with the configuration and tectonics of form explored through the disciplines of sculpture and architecture. Exhibitions Sculpture by the Sea Cottesloe, 2023 Sculpture by the Sea Bondi, 2020/2022 CHAUFFEUR Gallery, 2022 Montalto Sculpture Prize, 2020/2021/2022 Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Art, 2021 Wollombi Sculpture Festival, 2020/2021 Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, 2021 Georges River Art Prize, 2021 IDEA [Object], 2021 Workshopped, 2019/2020 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, 2019 Emerging Artist Grant, Sculpture by the Sea, 2022 Special Commendation Award, Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, 2019 Viewers’ Choice Award, Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, 2019 People’s Choice Award, Workshopped, 2019 Sculpture and Installation Award, IESANZ, 2017

There is a logical progression from my prints to portrait painting to wire abstracts. Initially I was a fine art printmaker using photo stencils to create landscape images with a rich surface texture. Needing a creative change, I started painting portraits with stencilled dots, dashes and lines to create a flickering feeling of light and colour. This led to abstract paintings using linear patterns to create an illusion of movement and space. Now I create the feeling of movement in actual 3D space in relief wire sculptures which appear to undulate as the viewer moves or the lighting changes the shadows. I was born in England in 1952 and emigrated with my family when I was eight. I feel thoroughly Australian! From 1970-73 I studied at the National Art School in Sydney where I became particularly interested in screen printing and photography. Because of these skills, in 1974 I was employed by The Australian Museum in Sydney to work in their Exhibitions department. This employment was a wonderful education in the richness, wonder and beauty of Australia’s natural history and…

Abbey Rich is a public and exhibiting artist based in Naarm (Melbourne), Australia. Their work predominantly looks at gender, pattern and environment, with a particular interest in accessible and community co-designed public art making. Their work intends to be easily approachable, to be welcoming and appeal to many people through colour, pattern and warmth. Abbey was born on Boon Wurrung Land, Frankston and currently lives/works on Wurundjeri Land, Inner north of Melbourne. My career has been wide ranging, I started as a textile designer and I started my own clothing label when I was 20. So, for a couple of years, I was running a clothing label, doing fashion weeks, and making everything in-house. But I found it really difficult to enjoy. There were a lot of ethical questions, and a lot of things I couldn’t quite reconcile. Then someone asked me to paint a mural about 5 and a half years ago, and I was like “Yes please, that sounds fun.” Having not really painted that much in my life, I really loved it. And then made steps to…

I’m a contemporary artist with expertise in sculpture, video, and painting, who predominantly addresses big data and climate change. I’m an accomplished contemporary artist in Australia, who pioneered the use of new technologies for sculpture production. I received a first-class honours degree in sculpture from the Australian National University’s School of Art in 2000 and completed an Australian Postgraduate Research Scholarship from the College of Fine Art, University of NSW in 2004. I’m pursuing a PhD in Engineering and Information Technology at the University of Technology in Sydney and recently published an innovative research paper in M.I.T’s journal, Leonardo. I was born in 1972 in Malaysia. Today, I live and work in Sydney. My studio is in an old industrial building with other artists in Marrickville. Awards and Grants 2021 Winner “People’s Choice award” Western Sydney sculpture NSW Winner “Environmental Award” Scenic World NSW Winner “People’s Choice Award” Scenic World NSW Winner “People’s Choice Award Montalto VIC 2020 Winner People’s Choice Award “Eden Sculpture Award Winner Curators Award at Tom Bass Figurative Award 2019 Winner “People’s Choice Award” Swell Sculpture…

I work with industrial materials to create organic and natural forms.  I imbue a sense of gentleness and movement into works to create a new object to challenge our perception of the re-use of materials.  I believe that beauty can be repeatedly created from whatever we have at hand, as long as we use ingenuity, integrity and artistic endeavour. These preloved items become the parts that I use to create a whole – something new that inspires wonder.  I take hard, rusted, steel forms and imbue them with a sense of gentleness and movement. I work with industrial materials to create organic and natural forms.  I imbue a sense of gentleness and movement into works to create a new object to challenge our perception of the re-use of materials.  I believe that beauty can be repeatedly created from whatever we have at hand, as long as we use ingenuity, integrity and artistic endeavour. From my workshop in Yass in regional New South Wales, I create these decorative forms from everyday and industrial objects. Where I capture the delicacy and fragility…

The first 17 years of my career was as a structural steel fabricator.  Projects included structural skeletal framework for large domestic buildings, commercial buildings and difficult, complex structures. Over 10 years ago I merged into art fabrication for other artists as well as exhibiting my own works, exhibiting widely throughout NSW. Nicole has always been a “maker” from attempting to build a brick dog kennel from the age of 8 to building a three bedroom house unaccompanied to where she is now, currently a practicing artist. Having been a steel fabricator for the first 17 years of her career, naturally her sculptures were predominately steel. In her pursuit of creating sculptures that are unique, never been done before Nicole has been incorporating rocks in her work. The formation of the rocks is how they are found. Spending many hours searching for the right shapes and scale. Then carefully weaving steel around the natural contours and structure to create the form. Nicole lives in the small locality of Hampton, central west NSW. She lives on an isolated property of native bushland…

My sculpture has reflected my concerns with woman’s lived experience; extinction and environmental vandalism and pieces to honour the earth. I chose primarily wood, recycled metal and found objects to convey my concerns and interests. I continue to be concerned by the environmental loss we face in the 21st Century and treatment of animals. I make sculpture which tells stories of my personal connection and everyday interaction with the natural world and using primarily recycled materials, I continue to make work which comments on climate change and extinction and what is important to me as a woman. I have been widely collected, with all pieces from my exhibitions purchased to date. My clients purchase my work because it is ethically produced and they cite personal connection with the themes and stories also as a reason to collect. I am also a prolific jeweller and sell my work widely across Australia with some pieces sent to the USA, Sweden, Berlin and London. My last exhibition of sculpture was a group show for NAS Mentor Program 2022. I am currently completing a…

My work as a sculptor currently explores traditional female needleart techniques that I experimented with in my earlier sculptural pieces (exhibited at Mildura, Melbourne, Canberra and Sydney throughout the 1970s/80s/90s) combined with my growing environmental concerns. The use of recycled textile materials links to the social and political message of ecological balance and harmony. As I travelled and worked as a community artist, interacting with people in a variety of situations, I learned about the unique and threatened nature of our landscape and looked for ways to draw attention to its need for active protection. I was born in Canberra 1955. I am a graduate of Canberra School of Art (Fine Arts, Sculpture) 1976, Canberra College of Advanced Education (Graduate Diploma of Education) 1977, the Victorian College of the Arts (Graduate Fine Arts, Sculpture) 1980 and Charles Sturt University 2002 (Master of Education, Teacher Librarianship). Community Artist I have worked as a community artist since 1977 primarily coordinating community based murals. These projects have been carried out throughout Australia in a variety of urban, industrial and rural environments, and in…

I have always enjoyed creating and welding and I have put these 2 together to create several items for both my personal enjoyment and for friends. I was excited to read about Sculpture on the Farm and to create a work that has special meaning to me – my love of nature and in particular Deer. A couple of my pieces are currently on display in the shop – The Dungog Trading Post. I was born in Scone, home of the Wannarua and Gamilaroi people – known as Wannarua Country. I am the 3rd child to John and Therese. We lived quite a long way from the nearest town and life for me was simple, on the farm and hanging around Dad and his workshop. I learned to use his tools at a young age and became very hands on and competent by the time I started at Boarding school in Armidale. Here at TAS I had the opportunity to use my art and my trade ability and started a Boilermaker School Based apprenticeship (SBAT) when I was in Year…

I have been a sculptor for over forty years and have a bachelor degree in Fine Arts (UNE), Graduate Diploma in Art Education (UNE) and Graduate Certificate in Design (UTS). I am Head Teacher of Central Coast Sculpture School and enjoy a balance of teaching and making sculpture. I believe that materials have innate qualities that are integral to the nature of sculpture and enable the viewer to connect with the artwork. I work in sandstone, marble, timber, bronze, plaster, paper and at times, found objects and mixed-media. I was born in Sydney, Gadigal country, and studied Architecture before becoming a Stonemason in the building industry, working on restoration projects in sandstone. Having married in 1979 we moved to the north of Nimbin in the Northern Rivers region, Bundjalung country, where I farmed, built stone houses and started creating sculpture. We moved back south to the Central Coast in 1993 and I started as a high-school Art Teacher. I became Head Teacher of Creative Arts and worked in the public system for twenty-seven years teaching HSC Visual Arts and marking…