Gspot Glass Workshops - Come Blow or Cast. ITS HOT!
3/30 Greycliffe St. Queenscliff, NSW, 2096
For further information please phone or email
Sallie Portnoy ph 02 99386395 /0418279518 art@sallieportnoyglass.com.au
GLASS BLOWING on the Lagoon
These 2-day workshops are the perfect beginning to discover the excitement of working with hot glass!! Come and join us for a weekend foray of fun into the mysteries of the age-old art form of glass blowing. Conjure images of the first Syrian blowers, Greek and Roman artisans and on to Venice, the Art Nouveau movement... YOU'LL LOVE IT!
The workshop will explore the basics of glassblowing and is aimed at beginners. Anyone who wishes to learn glassblowing at the furnace is invited to participate. No experience is required. Students will learn how to gather and marver, shape and blow glass and how to use the appropriate tools through basic exercises and practice. Use of colour will also be explored. Several short demonstrations and plenty of background information will be given. Students will need to be ready to work in teams and have fun!!!
Dates: 14&15/08 21&22/08 18&19/09 23&24/10 27&28/11
***dates subject to change depending on enrollment
Places are limited to 4 persons to make sure everybody has access to tuition and use
of equipment.
Workshop will be 2 days of 6 hours each from 10-4
Fee is $480.00
Course fee includes all material and equipment.
www.sallieportnoyglass.com.au 0418 279 518
GLASS CASTING on the lagoon
This is a unique opportunity to study with the artist in her studio by the sea. Take home a wealth of knowledge as well as some new cast sculptures, & have a great weekend getting the creative juices flowing. The 2 day workshop will take students on an intensive journey into the creative possibilities of kiln cast glass. The instructor will demystify the casting process by teaching how to model & form positives in clay & polyurethane to make simple open moulds. The use of Gel-Flex rubber will also be used. This course will cater to all levels of ability.
Dates: 21&22/08 *18&19/09 23&24/10 27&28/11
*fusing & blowing demos & make your own jewelry $20 for - 2 hrs
Part of Manly Art Festival ? (no casting class this weekend)
***Dates subject to change depending on enrollment
Places are limited to make sure everybody has access to tuition and use of equipment and for safety reasons.
Workshop will be 2 days of 6 hours each from 10-4
Fee is $350
Course fee includes all materials, equipment & firing
Life Drawing Class with Michael Christie
6:30 to 9:00pm, Monday nights
6 Weeks beginning the 26th of July with the final class on 30th of August.
A special drawing class taking a unique approach to 'deconstruct' a model
into the steps necessary to construct a layered drawing of form in space. A
variety of techniques and materials are used. It can complement or prepare
students to create figurative sculpture within a Life Class.
This class is suitable for students either with no previous experience, to
refresh skills previously learnt or to be exposed to new techniques. It is
preferable for students to follow the structure of the whole course, but
there is scope for casual classes.
COST: $240
Tom Bass Sculpture Studio School
1a Clara Street Erskineville NSW 2043
Tel: 02 9565 4851
Mob: 0430 120 327
Email: tbsss@tpg.com.au
www.tombasssculptureschool.org.au
www.tombasssculptureschool.org.au
Queensland Artworkers Alliance can help in getting Public Liability insurance in order to display your work. You will first need to join the Alliance and as part of being accepted as a member you have PL insurance that covers you for the whole of Australia for the next 12 months, including running workshops, attending sculpture symposiums and other useful art-based activities.
Darling Park Exhibition
2 Aug – 4 Sept, 2010
Entries are now being called for Sculpture Darling Park 2010. Applications close Friday 25 June 2010
This is our largest exhibition for the year, 200+ sculptures
displayed in the vast foyer of Darling Park, 201 Sussex St, Sydney
(corner Market St and just across from Cockle Bay). A wonderful venue
to exhibit your work and over $9,500 worth of prizes to be won!
Special thanks to our sponsors for the following prizes:
• Franco Belgiorno-Nettis Transfield Holdings Prize - $2,000
• PricewaterhouseCoopers Prize - $1,500
• Crawfords Casting Prize - $1,000
• Australian Bronze Prize - $1,000 worth of bronze casting
• Transfield Holdings prize for sculpture using found objects - $1,000 (this is new prize)
• Tom Bass Award – 1 Term Life Study Workshop Class to the value of $720 (to be judged by TBSSS representative)
• Lathams Australia - $600 in stone carving tools
• Barnes Products – box of casting and modelling products valued at $500
• Roger Fenton – plinth valued at $200
• The Sculptors Society - $500 for a figurative sculpture
• The Sculptors Society - $500 for an abstract sculpture
• The TBSSS People’s Choice Award - Tom Bass Retrospective Book and Tom Bass Totem Maker (autobiography).
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Voter award for People’s Choice - randomly selected from votes cast in
People’s Choice - 1 Day Sculpture Workshop Class in Summer Workshop
Program
Members and guests are invited to the opening party Tuesday 3 August 6-8pm.
The
exhibition will be opened by David Gonski AC, Chairman of Investec and
Chancellor of University of NSW. Our judge this year is Nick Vickers of
Delmar Galler
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Images for the website.