Thread: Florence

Dunno where I've been when you posted them, but that's a beautiful set of work underfoot!

All I can say is the other four place getters must have been sleeping with the judges!

Well done!

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Wow, I'm not much of an arty farty type, but I like those. Well done

welcome home undy
what were most of the other sulptures made of
5th is realy great it sounds like a high class exhibition

Beautiful work. I especially like the ship thingy with the ducks in it. ()
I'd really like to see the third piece from the other angle. Or would it have to go in the sealed section?

Did I see those in Craft Arts Australia?
They are fantastic and well deserving of the medal. Pity the arts community is scared of woodcarvers.

congratulations Underfoot, I am in awe and, like the others, missed them when you posted before. I will ensure I look out for your next showing.
Fletty
ps, how big is the frame and ark?

Thanks folks
spirit- the sculpture section was a bit of a licorice allsorts,
bronze, marble,steel,ceramics,glass, feathers,lead, tissue
etc, etc, I'll post a couple of pics, (not really wood carving but Ill
post em anyway)
tea lady- here's a pic of the front of "siren' the moderators might let it through,
fletty and AlexS, the bird,boat and box piece "ship of fools" is about
1100 mm tall, and I think one of that series was used in an exhibition add in craft arts

Spirit,
here's a few pics of some of the other sculptures
these are just a few of almost 500

Very nice work, I see an influence from Dali and Lindsay in your work, or is it just me?

Fan-bloody-tastic x3!!
As for the rest: Fan-bloody-tastic x whatever!!

Still Nice! Back of the angle looks interesting.
Why do you think sculpture judges are scared of woodies? Do the other "normal" sculptors go to art school or something?

Congratulations Underfoot for your well deserved award.

As regards your suspicion that the art world is suspicious of sculptors in wood (let's avoid the word carver in this context) IMHO it all goes down to the centuries old snobbery of the rich (the only ones who could commission works of art) towards "poor" materials like wood and clay which could be afforded by the populace.

In the case of wood another reason could be the even older and more rationally justifiable preference for more durable materials. After all, sculpture was mainly for decoration of buildings and exposed to the weather.

Remember the Venice Biennale of 1976 (take or leave a couple of years) and the attempt to pass roomfuls of rubbish as "transient art" ? Traditionally art is meant to be permanent, if it is not it is at best an artistic performance.

This said, those painted plastic shoes might be eternal, but I would not buy them to decorate my house... unless I were a rich shoemaker.

Originally Posted by tea lady

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Why do you think sculpture judges are scared of woodies? Do the other "normal" sculptors go to art school or something?

at a rough guess I'd say about 80% of those exhibiting there
had formal art training,
Having said that,many of the european and american sculptors
that I spoke to seem to think that australia is still carrying a fair amount of "arts baggage" that they seem to have gotten over 20 years ago,
they have just as many art academics and critics that would have you
believe that they are the only repository of art wisdom,
but they mostly just ignore them

l think anything that you do in life as you get more into it you meet more people that know everything about the subject but never practice it

couch artist if you like

that anerrexic lion/cat l like that ,as for the boots l worked with a spray paint for 20 years he had a table he mix the paint on never ever cleaned it the old can and bushes looked like they were sinking into a tripped out 60tyish table l could have sold it off as ART