The Association of Sculptors of Victoria is an inclusive, not-for-profit collective of contemporary artists whose purpose is to inspire,stimulate and advance the appreciation, creation, and exploration of three-dimensional art in society.

ASV News

 

  •  ASV Artists’ News
  • A special message from Gillian Goven, past President of the ASV    
  • Just prior to Christmas the Committee plus spent a very pleasant evening around a dinner table. During the evening I was humbled and delighted to be given a gift from the Association of Sculptors to thank me for my time as president. 

  • The renewal of my NGV membership, a visit to Risings in the Ballroom at Flinders Street Station and a voucher for a meal at Coda restaurant are all so very much appreciated.

  • Being president wasn’t always easy, but I learnt such a lot, met many wonderful people and I really think I got more from being president than I gave. It has been a wonderful experience. The Association is a very important part of my life and I will continue on the committee and assist where I am needed. 

  • Thanks to you all.  
  • Gillian
  • ASV Website

  • At the moment the ASV committee is reviewing the website with a view to a major overhaul. The existing site is becoming unreliable in terms of member logins and other useful operations. A full report will come out later.
  • On the other hand the online exhibition facility is working well and supporting our exhibitions admirably. This has given us an opportunity to differentiate between records of exhibitions and actual live exhibitions - in the live exhibition we can sell the work through our system and the coordinator can answer queries from visitors, in the records visitors can do research or browse and contact a sculptor through the contact form. 
  • Two modifications to our current system are in hand:
  • One is to acknowledge any technical support involved in producing the work - this can assist the visitors in understanding how a work might be made and what costs and expertise may have come from outside the studio. We already have this facility in our printed catalogues. We’ll be adding this field into both the records and the online exhibition soon.
  • Next to the matter of recording the price of a recorded sculpture: in an exhibition a work can be Not For Sale, or for sale at the best price the sculptor can offer given that the ASV commission is frequently smaller than commercial galleries need to charge, or, historically, the price can vary from one exhibition to the next - mostly it will increase - as a sculptor matures and understands the price implications of their expertise and expression. 
  • The big picture is: if there is a price on a work it is represented as for sale at that price. This is true in online exhibitions but possibly not true in the records of exhibitions. So we are removing the price field from the record of exhibitions so that the online exhibition and the live exhibition are the only places where a price is shown and the sculpture can be bought through the ASV system.
  • Jenny Rickards 
  • ASV website contact

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