Sculptors' Materials and Equipment

 Suzanne Kaldor, one of our long term member sculptors is unfortunately unable to continue sculpting.

 She would therefore like to donate materials eg. wax ,plaster, clay, tools etc to fellow sculptors.  Please contact Suzanne by email:   suzannekaldor@bigpond.com   or by text on 0419591046 if you would like to take advantage of this wonderful offer.

 In the meantime we wish Suzanne well…. Gillian

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Donation from the Estate of Wanda Skalik-Stelmach

Wanda Skalik-Stelmach’s family wish to donate their mother's equipment for the sculpture of life size work from clay. Shown here are photographs of the equipment. One is a stand that swivels around and the height can be changed. The other is the framework. If one of your members might be interested in these pieces of equipment I would be happy to pass these onto them. Best wishes, Wanda 0402048822

Wanda Skalik-Stelmach was born in Poland 8 April1925. As a child she showed a keen interest in art and did small sculptures. Even during WW2 she created small sculptures in Plaster of Paris or clay.  At war's end, she moved to London as a refugee. She studied Sculpture at Sir John Cass School of the Arts. Her works included a marble monument to the fallen soldier which was installed at a major round- about in London. In 1953 she won third place in the Queen's Coronation Year Battersea Park Commonwealth Sculpture competition with a sculpture entitled Midsummers Nights Dream. Wanda carved in stone, marble, wood as well as modelling in clay and bronze casting. She lived in Galway Ireland where she was active in the arts community and received private commissions. Her works include a bust of Michael Collins (now with his family in Dublin), stations of the cross, and a massive carved mahogany crucifix for the African Mission College. 

The Sunday Independent, February 24 1963 refers to these " Everywhere I went in Galway I heard praise of her Stations of the Cross, executed for Father McCullough's newly built church near Oughterard. She is now working on the same theme for the A.M.(African Missions) Church at Kilcolgan.  These panels will be 6 feet high with the figure of Christ carved into the cross.  Two reliefs for the same church will depict the Flight into Egypt and St. Peter Claver". 

She moved to Australia in 1968 and continued to take private commissions. She passed away aged 91 and is missed by her family. The two scaffolds are available to interested sculptors. The smaller scaffold was built for her by her husband, Zbigniew, in Ireland (photograph attached). The larger was built in Coventry England.