President's Letter and Editor's Inspiration

“Sculpture is an art of the open air. Daylight, sunlight, is necessary to it, and for me, its best setting and complement is nature.”

Henry Moore

Hello to the last part of 2023! Many of you, like myself, are frantically finishing work for the McClelland Gallery Exhibition. The race is on with the deadline on 13th December. Unlike Douglas Adams we can’t appreciate the whooshing sound that deadlines make as they go by… to be late is to miss out in this case. And what an opportunity this coming exhibition will be! Here is the chance to strut our stuff on a prestigious stage and seek out new, appreciative audiences. The opening for our guest speaker’s exhibition at McClelland is coming up on 2nd December… check out the McClelland newsletter for details. John Meade’s exhibition will be a counterpoint to our “art of the object” approach to sculpture.

Dates for Your Diary

ASV Christmas Gathering  3rd Dec, 12:00 All are welcome!
If you are creative, you could become a little bit Christmassy?RSVP 27th Nov please
Bring drinks and something to share
Partners are welcome too
7 Lamorna Court Eltham 0414996207
Carmel Ritchie

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Wednesday 13 December

Close of entries Form + Philosophy @ McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery
An exhibition of our work at McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery.

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Just in case you hadn't noticed we are not participating in the Herring Island Summer Arts Festival 2024

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Coming January 17 to 28, 2024

ASV will present “Form + Philosophy” - sculpture from living Victorian sculptors in all their diversity of philosophy, media and expression.

https://sculptorsvictoria.asn.au/exhibitions/application_forms.
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Monday 4 March 2024

Close of entries MIFGS 2024. The Melbourne International Flower and Garden. 
MIFGS 20th of March to the 24th of March 2024

https://sculptorsvictoria.asn.au/exhibitions/application_forms.

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Sculptors meet & greet

We still need some people to host this excellent casual time.
You choose the time so we can come and talk art !
We all love to talk about sculptures.
Please respond via email to ASV.
Thanks, your favourite Editor

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ASV EXHIBITIONS

 Annual and Awards Exhibition 2024

“I am happy to support a new coordinator. This is your exhibition and the highlight of ASV exhibiting year.

We need you. Please help out.” More hands = Light Work

If you are happy to take part please call Gillian Govan on 0412122884.

McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery

McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery is one of Victoria’s outstanding cultural assets.

The Gallery offers professionally curated exhibitions - always valuable for their thoughtful and perceptive takes on art and life in Victoria.

Feeling Sculpture

Helping others appreciate sculpture: A recent event from ART on the HILL

A recent event from ART on the HILL

I put a short post on Facebook and a lady contacted me almost immediately on Messenger. She has a client who is sight impaired.

He loves art, but galleries have refused to let him touch sculpture. This is his only way of seeing so has been very disappointed.

Social Media Update

The social Media team has been very busy with promoting ASV shows and calls for artists. But, did you know we are very happy to promote any information, and any image you provide, to promote you personally, or exhibitions/ open studios you are in??

Social Media is a way to get information out for free, to a wide public. The more interesting our page is, the more people will follow us- so it is good for the ASV to promote ALL our artists. And it’s good for you to promote yourself, your art, or your shows…

Other Opportunities and Interesting Art

 

Trails Sculpture Prize Portland 

entries open 6th Nov/ close 2nd Feb https://trailsartprize.com/entry

Gallery Elysium

A new initiative launched by Sanciolo Art and Design Labs and Gallery Elysium. Aimed at visual artists who feel that they would benefit from mentorship and the opportunity to discuss their work to achieve a higher potential.

Please email: bart@galleryelysium.com.au if you would like further information.

Starting Soon - 4 places remaining.

Regards,
Bart Sanciolo | bartsanciolo@gmail.com

Neerim Bower Sculpture Show

Members' News and New Members

Welcome to our new members, and a look at what some of the members have been doing locally...

Welcome to our three new members:

Paul Smith, Grant Flather and Alison Parkinson

It’s an exciting time to join the ASV. Hopefully we will all enjoy seeing your work at our upcoming exhibitions.

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Open Studio Alphington

“ It’s Open Studios time again, I will be with Bridget Foley at 30 Smith Street, Alphington, this weekend 25/26 November and the following 2/3 December.

We have a new line up of artists this year with some regulars like Bridget and myself!

President's Chat - Editor's Inspiration

"Where did I learn to understand sculpture? In the woods by looking at the trees, along roads by observing the formation of clouds, in the studio by studying the model, everywhere except in the schools.”

 Auguste Rodin    

The Wheels were spinning…

Life goes on and sometimes we throw up a bit of mud for no good outcome - and sometimes good fortune falls into our laps. So it is with our exhibition at McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery: just as Herring Island threatened to be just too hard we received an offer that is too good to refuse. So let us make the most of our exhibition in the Sarah and Baillieu Myer Pavilion and greet a new audience of people on the Mornington Peninsula in the Summer - a bush holiday near the sea - what’s not to like.

Notice of the AGM

Dates for Your Diary

 Sunday 29 October

We are invited to a gathering at Jude Bridges-Tull’s place on the 29th October. Have you remembered to RSVP? We had a pleasant Sunday chat at last summer’s gathering - Jude knows how to make us welcome and has another inspiring speaker https://www.bartsanciolo.com/ lined up for us. See you there.. And thank you Jude and Kerry.

Next Meet and Greet

We still need some people to host this excellent casual time. You choose the time so we can come and talk art ! We all love to talk about sculptures.

Please respond via email to ASV. Thanks, your favourite Editor

Wednesday 15 November 

Our Annual General Meeting starts at 7:30 Camberwell Community Centre and online 

All are welcome. Guest speaker to be announced

Please consider how you can help our wonderful creative sculpture group. Remember: More hands, light work

Sunday 3 December

Christmas - end of year Gathering

All are welcome! 

7 Lamorna Court Eltham 0414996207

Carmel Ritchie

Wednesday 13 December

Close of entries Form + Philosophy @ McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery 

An exhibition of our work at McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery. 

Coming January 17 to 28, 2024

ASV will present “Form + Philosophy” - sculpture from living Victorian sculptors in all their diversity of philosophy, media and expression.

https://sculptorsvictoria.asn.au/exhibitions/application_forms.

Monday 4 March 2024

Close of entries MIFGS 2024. The Melbourne International Flower and Garden. Show dates are as follows: 
MIFGS 20th of March to the 24th of March 2024

https://sculptorsvictoria.asn.au/exhibitions/application_forms.

ASV Exhibitions

 Annual and Awards Exhibition 2024

“I am happy to support a new coordinator. This is your exhibition and the highlight of ASV exhibiting year.

We need you. Please help out.”

If you are happy to take part please call Gillian Govan on 0412122884.

Progress on our two exhibitions which are currently open to enter

Entry information for both the Flower Show (MIFGS) and our exhibition at McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery is available at https://sculptorsvictoria.asn.au/exhibitions/application_forms.

Notes from the ART on the HILL

We had a wonderful experience at the Art on the Hill Exhibition.

I put a short post on Facebook and a lady contacted me almost immediately on Messenger. She has a client who is sight impaired.

He loves art but galleries have refused to let him touch sculpture. This is his only way of seeing so has been very disappointed. His carer asked if we would allow him to touch our sculptures. I said I thought this was possible under supervision and contacted Paul. He was delighted to be able to share the work with him. He went around explaining which he could touch and those he could not touch, he described why, the colour, the texture and the materials. Those he touched he was able to make deep and meaningful comments about. Both Paul and I were emotionally affected by this experience.

Paul and Jude have had similar experiences at MIFGS and Herring Island and I hope in the future we will be able to show more sight impaired art lovers, our sculptures. Obviously, this would need supervision and organising but it is so worthwhile.

Gillian Govan

Opportunities and interesting art

Most of our active sculptor members exhibit in outside exhibitions. This expands both the number and range of exhibition experiences and enables you to learn from seeing a diversity of work and meeting the makers. We should get together and pool our calendars so that you can maximise your experience and minimise the stress of moving between shows. One way of course is the collaboration between members to help deliver work, setting up together and pooling resources... it all happens informally at the moment - we can do even better if we make sure we keep in touch. Perhaps the monthly meetings - even online - can help here - or the chats such as at Jude's place... think about it and let us know.

Members' News and New Members

Please email me to share your artistic endeavours, click on my name. Carmel Ritchie

Workshops by Jenny Whiteside

Discounted prices for ASV members for workshops conducted by Jenny Whiteside.

Letter from the President

Newsletter editor's quote for the month:

"To make sculpture can be as basic as this: you need a love of making things ... and when you have made work for a long time you can't just throw it together ... When you know how to do something properly, like playing a musical instrument - whatever it happens to be - you can't do it badly, you would be untrue to yourself ..." Geoffrey Bartlett

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Spring at Mont De Lancey

Spring is definitely here and new blossoms and buds are everywhere. We have passed the equinox and here come the longer days.

The ASV committee has been busy working towards future exhibitions:

Dates for Your Diary

Meet and Greet

Would anyone like to host a casual gathering next year so members can meet others and talk art! It can be held inside or outside, during the weekends or weeknights! Please consider hosting one in 2024

We all love to talk about sculptures.

Please respond via email to ASV.

11 October 2023 Online Members' Meeting

We have lots to talk about: Our upcoming  and new exhibitions, how did Art on the Hill go?, the upcoming AGM, share what you have been creating,  and more.

More details and a link will be sent later

29 October Members' afternoon chat

2pm 343 Riversdale Rd Hawthorn East 

All members welcome! Surprise guest speaker! Bring any ideas, images you would like to share, or, just come for a creative catch up. 

RSVP by 25th October please. Jude Bridges-Tull 0431 072 593

15 November 2023 - ASV AGM

7:30pm All are welcome. Camberwell Community Centre and online. Notices will be emailed to members.

ASV Christmas Party

SAVE the DATE

3rd Dec, 12:00 at Carmel Ritchie’s in Eltham

More details later

McClelland Gallery

entries close 13 December 2023 exhibition 17 to 28 January 2024

MIFGS

entries close 4 March 2024 exhibition 20 to 24 March 2024

ASV AAE VAS

save the date 12 June to 2 July 2024

ASV Exhibitions

Coming up we have the McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery Exhibition and the Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show.. as well as which -

Mont Delancey Spring Festival

“ Hi Everyone,

Firstly, thank you for participating in the exhibition. The quality and standard of the art was amazing. I received many comments on what a wonderful exhibition it was and asking if this will be an annual event.

The inaugural Spring Festival at Mont Delancey was held on the 23rd and 24th in conjunction with the Art on the Hill. We had perfect weather for the event.

Jude Bridges and Heather Wilson helped by providing family friendly activities associated with sculpting. It was a great success.

Members' News

Members are encouraged to email the editor newsletter @sculptorsvictoria.asn.au with their sculpture news.

From Avis Gardner

I’m happy to be exhibiting some of my work in this very exciting exhibition with the Valley Potters. The exhibition can also be viewed online on the Gallery website. 20th Sept to 1st Oct

Interesting Art

• VAS Gallery

Current Exhibitions at the VAS Gallery

• Boroondara/Hawthorn Gallery

The Memory Palace: Cyrus Tang WED 26 JULY 2023 – SAT 21 OCTOBER

• Storytelling sound sculpture’s epic journey from desert to museum

• Greg Johns – Recipient of the Sculpture By The Sea Helen Lempriere Scholarship | Australian Galleries

From the President

I did manage to get away on a holiday
the Pinnacles in Western Australia

On the surface the life of the ASV is pretty quiet at the moment. Beneath the smooth waters we are paddling furiously.

Each of you will be out in the studio developing your own stories for our times... I’m inspired by the work I catch up with on Instagram. Well done all of you for keeping the flame alight. There are quite a few outside exhibition opportunities available and some potential commissions have been offered through the newsletter - do let us know whether you have sold or been offered work out of any of these.

Dates for Your Diary

Art on the Hill Exhibition

Entries close 4th September

Group Exhibition at Owen Dixon Chambers East, 

Studio 11, 

Level 11, 205 William Street Melbourne

the exhibition is still on and is open weekdays 9am to 6pm until Friday 15th September

Next Meet and Greet ?

? Would anyone like to host a casual gathering so members can meet others and talk art ! We all love to talk about sculptures.
Please respond via email to ASV. mail@sculptorsvictoria.asn.au

Thanks, your favourite Editor

AGM

15th Nov
7:30pm All are welcome.
Camberwell Community Centre

Upcoming ASV Exhibitions and a Report on the Annual and Awards Exhibition

Here we remind you of our current program - stay in touch as opportunities may arise soon.

Art on the Hill

Paul Cacioli is getting Art on the Hill going again this year.
He has been working with Mont De Lancey to see how to attract more people to the exhibition as well as to Mont Delancey. They have come up with an idea to incorporate the exhibition with a Spring Festival. The title of the festival is Mont Delancey Spring Festival – Art and Artisans.
The Art on the Hill Exhibition will run from the 20th to the 24th of September and the Spring Festival will run on the 23rd and 24th of September. The Spring Festival will include artisans such as bakers, brewers, distillers, wood working, blacksmithing, leather makers, etc. It will also include some family friendly activities.

Other Opportunities and Interesting Art

In this section you will find 

- as advertised - lots of opportunities both exhibitions to enter and art to experience. Remember to send anything you find interesting to the newsletter: newsletter@sculptorsvictoria.asn.au

Government incentive for artists in the Geelong area

https://bigbuild.vic.gov.au/projects/geelong-line-upgrade/projects/marshall-station

Sculptor contact for heritage project.

I write to your society in the hope that I might make contact with a sculptor who may be interested in replicating a bronze sculpture from a memorial dedicated to the short life of Henri Tovell, a French orphan boy who was cared for on the Western Front by No 4 Squadron AFC during the Great War. He became in many respects, the Unit’s unofficial mascot.

Members' News and New Members

Please email me to share your artistic endeavours, Carmel Ritchie or newsletter@sculptorsvictoria.asn.au

Read on to find out what members have been achieving lately

New Exhibition

Sioux Dollman and Shlomit Moria are proud to present our collaborated exhibition, ‘Balance’.

Take the unique opportunity to explore Sioux's optimistic paintings, and Shlomit's darker sculptures that show both the ‘balance’ within and allow yourself the time to immerse and interact with life's greatest juggling act.

President's Letter (and inspiration from Auguste Rodin via our editor)

 Where did I learn to understand sculpture? In the woods by looking at the trees, along roads by observing the formation of clouds, in the studio by studying the model, everywhere except in the schools.”

— Auguste Rodin

Happy New Financial Year everyone,

Van Phu Le "Who am 1? Who are They?" 

We put on a great performance at the Annual and Awards Exhibition - a glittering show of art and artistry. We celebrated our winners and acknowledged that every work had serious merit - except for Aukje van Vark’s Happy Dance which was seriously happy. And congratulations to the winner of the People’s Choice Award - Van Phu Le for “Who am I? Who are they?” and runner up Sue Smales for “BooBook”

Dates for your Diary

Thursday 3 August

ASV Committee meeting

Wednesday 9 August

Show and Tell at Gillian Govan's home. Contact Gillian Govan gmps.govan@bigpond.com

4 September

Entries close Art on the Hill exhibition 

ASV EXHIBITIONS

Get your sculptures ready for the wonderful “Art on the Hill’!

Coming soon, in the beautiful green Wandin hills at the Mont DeLancey Mansion. Mont De Lancey

Art on the Hill   

Invitation from Paul Cacioli either by email (cacioli@netspace.net.au) or by mobile (0429575299) for entry information.

Other Opportunities and Interesting Art

Read on for more news on exhibitions to enter and inspirations to see

New Members

Welcome to these new members, may they share their wonderful creativity with us through our exhibitions. Siouxsan-Claire Major, Fred Toumayam, Scott Sheil and a belated welcome to Patrick Flanagan who has been a member now for a few months

President's Notes

Winners of the Andor Meszaros and
Margaret Gunnersen William Hoggan Thomas Awards

In many ways the Annual and Awards exhibition is the culmination of a year’s work.... and as with all culminations it is the start of more work... inspiration or just that itch to do things better, sharper and clearer - what is it that drives us?

Dates for Your Diary

 Catching up with fellow sculptors! Lockdowns meant that we got out of the habit of catching up with each other and talking about forms and materials, tools, techniques and philosophy. On the other hand we discovered that online meetings mean we talk with with regional sculptors without travelling on cold wet windy wintry nights to catch up with colleagues. 

• On Wednesday 21st June we met online to talk over the Annual Exhibition. It was a small but stimulating discussion - so now we'll try meeting on a different evening to see if it suits more of you
• On Tuesday 11th July at 7:30pm we will meet online again.

Opening the Annual & Awards Exhibition 2023

The exhibition is OPEN! 

The online exhibition can be viewed at https://sculptorsvictoria.asn.au/virtual-exhibition/2023-annual-awards-exhibition/ until 11th July 

And this is the Opening:

Opportunities and Interesting Art News

You can find entry forms for arts opportunities, news and interesting items from other sculpture supporters... read on:

Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture

$60,000 Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture

Members' News and Welcome to New Members

Welcome and read on:

Gunnel Watkins' 

exhibition is in the Theosophical Society Bookshop

From the President

the chips are down...
making sawdust

We are looking forward to the Annual & Awards Exhibition 2023 at the Victorian Artists Society galleries. The entries are in, the images on their way, advertising and invitations are in production or already circulating and the organising of documentation and recording is under way. This is the intense phase of administration and here we see the fine work of a number of volunteers.

Dates for Your Diary

Catching up with fellow sculptors! Lockdowns meant that we got out of the habit of catching up with each other and talking about forms and materials, tools, techniques and philosophy. On the other hand we discovered that online meetings mean we talk with with regional sculptors without travelling on cold wet windy wintry nights to catch up with colleagues. So, in the interests of trying everything ….

• In June we will meet online to talk over the Annual Exhibition,

URGENT ASV MEDIA REQUEST

Our ASV society runs on volunteers. Therefore, when the need arises an urgent request is put out to the wonderful, creative artists in this group. Please help with social media. It’s not as formidable a task that it sounds. As Gillian wrote: Art lovers won’t come to the exhibition if they don’t know it is on. “ Social media support request…We are all excited for our annual and awards exhibition in the Victorian artists society this year- I am sure. To get as many visitors as we can- we need publicity. Social media is a fantastic way to promote our work, our exhibitions and get the news out to Art lovers out there. This year we are running into a small problem; I am away during the annual.

ASV Exhibitions

ASV Annual and Awards Exhibition

15th June to 3rd July The Annual and Awards Exhibition

Other Opportunities

Lots of information has come in this month - check out all of them!

Interesting Art

Follow the links to arts news that has come in over the month:

Museum of Underwater Art's 'ocean sentinel' sculptures sunk on Great Barrier Reef - ABC News