Tag: Sculpture
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Exploring Richard Moffat’s Nest III Sculpture
It is creative vision combined with technical skill that gives rise to a work of art. True artists know the potential and the limitations of their materials. In the hands of sculptor Richard Moffat, found metal objects and pieces of abandoned farm machinery undergo an alchemical transformation. When we look at Nest III we see…
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The lost art of ship figureheads
Pandora, barefoot, ivory-skinned, her blue robes trimmed with gold, holding a casket, tightly, with two hands. She seems to fly above me in the volume of this ship-like space with its billowing ceiling and angled windows, her skirt flowing gracefully as though propelled by the breeze. Aloft on the prow, but not free at all,…
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Bruno’s Sculpture Garden
Birds, I love them, I’m drawn to them (the feathered variety that is). They have a place in my heart and in art of all descriptions. Last week was national Bird Week in Australia so here’s a post to celebrate birds, sculpture, the Australian bush and natural gardens. Life imitates art: King parrot on the…
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Kinetic Sculpture in Palm Springs
Its cleverly cantilevered forms moved effortlessly, as if by magic, creating shapes that, from where I sat, looked two dimensional then three dimensional. I became entranced watching this graceful sculpture slowly change its form as I sipped my latte on the terrace of Koffi on Tahquitz Canyon Road, Palm Springs. I crossed the road to…
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British Child Migrants Memorial
She occupies a corner of a courtyard at the Migration Museum in Adelaide, It is not a not particularly appealing space, yet I found myself moving closer, drawn to this skinny elongated form. The bronze figure is dedicated to the other (non-Indigenous) stolen generation, children, some orphans, some wards of the state, sent from Britain…
ART by Jude Tulloch 