Walcha Council has really got value for money from the NSW government’s $20,000 arts grant with not one sculpture, but two that will feature in the town’s open air gallery.
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John Petrie’s stone sculpture titled The figure in the landscape and Paul Bacon’s Goulburn River Landscape – a metal piece – were the two works selected from the Sculpture by the Sea exhibition at Bondi which closed on Sunday.
Council’s general manager Jack O’Hara said the two sculptures were excellent value for money and would suit the outdoor gallery theme.
“We are trying to arrange transport now,” he said.
“Then we will call another arts committee meeting to decide where to put them.”
Walcha Council was the successful applicant for the NSW government’s $20,000 grant out of 21 submissions for the regional acquisition program.
Petrie has won a number of awards, including the International Stone Sculpture Project 2012 and grants.
“I see the body and the landscape united by form,” Petrie said on his website. “I believe the process of making art is a mimetic process similar to forces operating in the natural world.
“Essentially my work is about a response to form, both natural and man made.”
Bacon said he tries to keep pieces “open”.
“To allow white space and emptiness to talk as much as the line and shapes I introduce,” he said on his website. “In the end the sculptures should have a resonance, an elegance that speaks in its own voice.”
This year’s Sculpture by the Sea featured work from three Walcha artists: last year’s winner Stephen King, James Rogers and former local Alice Nivison who was a designer of the group entry Cave Urban.