Australia

Paul Selwood began making sculpture in 1964 after he enrolled at East Sydney Technical College. He was Technical Assistant at the Royal College of Art, England from 1965 to 1968 and worked for Sir Anthony Caro. He was invited to teach sculpture at Bath Academy of Art from 1968 to 1970. Optical art, pop art, minimalism and abstraction were the aesthetic propositions at the time and Selwood met many of the leading British and American painters and sculptors in these formative years. Since returning to Australia in 1971, Selwood has had over 26 solo exhibitions and numerous group exhibitions. He was lecturer in charge of sculpture at USQ 1977 to 1982 and lecturer in sculpture at Newcastle University from 1986 to 1996. His works can be seen in significant public collections such as the Art Gallery of NSW. He has exhibited in Sculpture by the Sea regularly since 1999. He was the recipient of the Balnaves Foundation Sculpture Prize Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2011.

Koichi Ishino was born in Japan, immigrated to Australia in 2009 and now lives and works in New South Wales. Ishino graduated from Kyoto City University with a Bachelor of Arts in 1976 and has been a full time artist for over 25 years. He has participated in Sculpture by the Sea in Bondi and Cottesloe regularly since 2001. He was awarded the Waverley Council Mayor’s Prize at Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi in 2009 and the Helen Lempriere Scholarship at Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2014.

Ishino has gained an international reputation, having completed numerous significant public international commissions and being the recipient of such prizes as the Tokyo National Museum of Modern Art Award, in 1997, and the Kyoto National Museum of Modern Art Award, in 1995.

Ishino’s work is characterized by smooth mirror surfaces of stainless steel paired with stone. Throughout his career, Ishino has developed original inlay techniques. In his work, materials of completely different qualities come together as one seamlessly fabricated form.

Michael Le Grand has been working in steel since graduating from the Victorian College of the Arts in 1974. Over his acclaimed career spanning nearly 40 years, Le Grand has been awarded many grants, fellowships and prizes. After further studies at St. Martin’s School of Art in London he was awarded an Australian National University Creative Arts Fellowship in 1978. He was a recipient of an Australia Council Travel Grant in 1975, the Capital Arts Patron’s Fellowship and the ACT ARTS Creative Arts Fellowships in 1997. He was the co-recipient of the Inaugural Sydney Water Sculpture Prize, Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 1997 and awarded the inaugural University of Western Sydney Acquisitive Sculpture Prize 2004. In 2010 Le Grand was awarded a prestigious Helen Lempriere Scholarship.

In 2007 he retired as the Head of Sculpture at the Australian National University School of Art, where he is now an Emeritus Fellow. In 2011, Le Grand had a significant retrospective exhibition at the Canberra Museum and Gallery. In 2012 he was invited to participate in the McClelland Sculpture Survey.

Le Grand is a member of the Sculpture by the Sea Decade Club, having exhibited regularly in Sculpture by the Sea since 1997.

Andrea Vinkovic, born 1965 in Zagreb, Croatia, is ceramic artist interested in exploring personal and archetypal symbolism of visual language. She is inspired by fragility, organic beauty and delicate balance of natural environment. Vinkovic has exhibited both nationally and internationally since 2001, with a highlight of her early career being an invited artist to exhibit and workshop in Gangjin, South Korea. She was a founding member of Clay Feet exhibiting group, whose philosophy was to take art into the public spaces, making it more accessible to the wider community. Vinkovic completed an Advanced Diploma of Art and Craft in ceramics at Central TAFE in 2002. She was ceramic technician and casual lecturer at Central Institute of Technology for over five years, and ceramic lecturer at Midland campus of Polytechnic West for two years. At the end of 2013, Vinkovic made a decision to reduce her teaching commitments and dedicate more time to her craft. She works from her home studio in the Perth hills.

Ben Juniper was born in 1961 in Perth, Western Australia. Juniper originally trained as a jeweller with the late Geoffrey Allen, and self-educated as a blacksmith. Juniper’s works are an amalgamation of these two art forms, as well as skills picked up variously as a set designer, painter and pattern maker. His work has been described as jewellery for buildings. Juniper cites works by John Olsen, Brett Whiteley, Charles Blackman and Albert Paley – amongst many inspirations – as being highly influential on his practice. With these influences, over the course of his career Juniper has developed a broad range of skills and tastes that enrich his work. Having worked as a commission based artist for many years, 2006 saw the first of his annual solo shows.



In his recent works Juniper incorporates new media, including colourful hand blown and slumped glass, stainless steel and even noble metals. This is perhaps a nod to his formative years as a jeweller.

Tim Macfarlane Reid lives and works in Perth, Western Australia. Macfarlane Reid came to sculpture after a successful career as a chef at Tetsuya’s, and is now a committed professional artist whose works are highly collectable. He is a graduate of the National Art School in Sydney, and has been a full time sculptor for over 20 years, with numerous solo and group exhibitions.

Macfarlane Reid predominantly works in corten steel, which allows his works to develop deep, rich colour over time. Inspired by the words of Jean Arp: "Art should lose itself in nature, should even be mistaken for nature", Macfarlane Reid’s sculptures are evocative of natural forms found in the landscape. These works emulate, reflect and mirror the beauty of the world around us.

Macfarlane Reid has won a number of awards, including two awards for works exhibited at Sculpture by the Sea. His work is found in both private and public collections, including the Town of Cottesloe Public Sculpture Collection, and the State Theatre of Western Australia.

The artist is represented in WA by Gallows Gallery and Gunyulgup Gallery.

Marwah (Addam) Eid’s art inhabits the boundaries between jewellery, sculpture, and architecture. Working predominantly in metal, the artists creates sculptural pieces that fuse previous architecture and jewellery design and construction studies, to produce artworks ranging in scale from the wearable to large wall-mounted and freestanding pieces. Eid is a sculptural artist whose work has been exhibited and published internationally. Her current work is an exploration of her sense of place, with reference to the cultural overlap between Egypt and Australia. Of her work Urban Cultural Spinifex – Connected, Eid reflects:

"In discovering my sense of place, the spinifex was central to my memories; this work uses interlocked elements to create a complex repertoire of abstract form of random yet deliberate linearity’s."  

Ron Robertson-Swann is actively involved in the arts in Australia as a sculptor, teacher and advocate. He studied sculpture with Lyndon Dadswell at the National Art School in Sydney and with Sir Anthony Caro OM and Phillip King CBE at the St Martin’s School of Art in London. After completing his studies in the UK, he was an assistant to Henry Moore for several years. Robertson-Swann has had a long career as a teacher of sculpture, including Head of the Sculpture Workshop at the Canberra School of Art, and the National Art School in Sydney where he is currently Head of Sculpture. He was a member of the Ministerial Task Force to establish the new National Art School and is a founding member of the Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council.

Robertson-Swann has exhibited extensively in both Australia and overseas, and his works are included in all major public Australian collections. In 2002 Robertson-Swann was awarded the Order of Australia Medal for service to the Arts in Australia. Graeme Sturgeon, an eminent Australian sculpture historian and critic, described Robertson-Swann in 1980 as the most consistent of the Classic Formalist, that is, the one most concerned to produce a sculpture which, while obviously of its era, transcends considerations of style in search of a timeless sense of rightness.

Jina Lee is a South Korean artist now residing permanently in Perth, Western Australia. She specializes in stone sculptural artworks, primarily in large scale stone sculptures made from marble.

She completed a bachelor’s degree in Traditional Korean Sculpture at the Korean National University of Cultural Heritage and finished her Master of Fine Arts, majoring in sculpture at Kookmin University in South Korea in 2009.

She has presented her sculptures at solo and group exhibitions and international art fairs in South Korea and Australia. Two of her sculptures have been produced for commission and placed in public spaces in South Korea.

After relocating to Perth in 2013, she has been involved in a variety of exhibitions, including City of Melville Sculpture Walk 2014 and Swell Sculpture Festival 2014. Lee is currently an Artist in Residence at the Greg James Sculpture Gallery in Fremantle, WA.

Her works aim to maintain an organic form and natural balance while covering a wide range of concepts.

Tim Burns has been described as a legendary figure in the history of Australian underground art. His practice crosses several mediums including painting, sculpture, installation, film-making, directing and performance. He spent the 1970s – 90s living between Australia and New York, where he rose to notoriety with a series of “literally explosive" art actions. He now lives in York, WA. Burns has taught film, art and interactive broadcast television at Edith Cowan University and Curtin University, WA. He has an MFA from the University of Western Australia on determinism in the Pintubi community in the Western Desert on which he wrote a feature film script ‘The Stolen Film’ with support from Screenwest, the WA state film commission. Burns was awarded an ArtsWA Fellowship in 1999 and an Australia Council Artists Fellowship in 1996. He has also been awarded the American Institute of Graphic Arts Book Award, 1977, the New York State Creative Arts Award 1978 and the National Endowment for the Arts (US) for performance in 1984. Burns work has been exhibited in numerous major shows and art institutions worldwide, including the Beaubourg Paris, ICA London, ICA Boston, MOMA New York, the Hirschorn Museum Washington, the National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of NSW, and Art Gallery of South Australia, the National Gallery of Australia and the Biennale of Sydney. He is represented in public and private collections internationally.

Claire Davenhall graduated from Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen with an Honours Degree of Fine Arts, majoring in sculpture, in 2000. In 2004, she qualified as a Specialist College Lecturer in fine art sculpture, ceramics, photography, and life drawing, and in 2006/2007 was awarded winner of the Governors Award for Excellence in Teaching and Learning for Community Public Art Projects, and has been nominated for the Protocol National Beacon Award in Art and Design for two years running. In 2007 Davenhall emigrated to Western Australia and began exhibiting new works in several group exhibitions including Castaways Sculpture Awards, York Photographic Awards, Minnawarra Art Awards, Mandjar Art Awards, and Belmont Art and Photography Awards, and undertook a 30 x 30 x 30 Art Challenge. Recently she has been working as a ceramic artist with the City of Joondalup and has undertaken a residency with the City of Rockingham. Davenhall works across a range of mediums. She is guided by her ideas and concepts, often leading to her discovery of new and exciting materials, techniques and processes. Taking inspiration from poems, quotes and found objects, she likes to discover delicate, intricate and unique objects. She continues to work in both art and education as facilitator, lecturer and practitioner.

Angus Adameitis graduated from National Art School in 1999 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture.

Since graduating, Adameitis has regularly shown his work in solo and group shows, as well as many outdoor sculpture exhibitions nationally and internationally. Adameitis' work has been awarded various awards and prizes, including the Transfield Prize for Sculpture in 1999, the Sculpture by the Sea Directors Prize 2000, Sculpture by the Sea Damon Courtney Young Sculptors Award 2001, Sell and Parker Material Sponsorship at Sculpture by the Sea 2006 and The Lady Ethel Nock Six Inch Sculpture Award, Defiance Gallery, 2007. Adameitis has also exhibited regularly in various regional galleries and outdoor exhibitions, including numerous Sculpture by the Sea exhibitions throughout Australia and also in Denmark.

In 2000, he was awarded an artist residency at Academia Di Bella Arti Di Brera, Milan and in 2002 he was selected as the Australian sculptor to partake in the Art Omi International Residency, New York. Adameitis lives and works in Sydney’s Inner West and continues to push the boundries of abstract sculpture. 

Ayad Alqaragholli was born and grew up in the region of Ur, Southern Iraq, and has been greatly influenced the Samarian culture and history of the region. A bronze artist and painter, his work is well known in the Middle East and Europe following numerous solo and group exhibitions.

Now living in Perth, Western Australia, Alqaragholli explores his interest in cultural identity, the history of Mesopotamia and the role of the human figure throughout history. He aims to connect the two cultures of Samaria and Australia in his artwork, and to reflect the old world and the new world. Alqaragholli works in bronze because of the long history of the medium, making it the most appropriate material for his notions of adaptation from the old to the new. Recurring motifs in his work include the human form, birds, wings, chairs and ladders. His ideas, however, are drawn from everyday life: forms, narratives and beauty. To him, the figure in artwork means love, land, peace, freedom and modern history.

Alqaragholli is represented in WA by Emerge Art Space.

Ratimir Marijan (Ron) Gomboc was born in Slovenia in 1947 and attended school in Croatia before immigrating, at the age of 13, with his family to Western Australia. Gomboc went on to study sculpture and printmaking at the Perth Technical College, as well as painting and drawing at Midland Tech.

Gomboc's various awards include the Swan Citizen of the Year Award, 1991; the Western Australian Week Citizen of the Year Award for his contribution to arts and culture, 1993; and the Centenary Medal for outstanding commitment to the community in raising the awareness of art.

In 2010 Gomboc became a member of the Sculpture by the Sea Decade Club for exhibiting 10 times in Bondi, and last year he became a member of the Sculpture by the Sea Decade Club in Perth for exhibiting 10 times in Cottesloe. He has had numerous exhibitions overseas and represented Australia by invitation at the 2010 Melanesian Art Festival, New Caledonia, as Artist in Residence. In 2011 Gomboc was selected to represent Australia at the 10th anniversary of the Goyang Sculpture Symposium in South Korea. In 2012, he was selected to represent Australia at the Qingdao-Seoul Stone Sculpture Symposium in Qingdao China.

The artist is represented in WA by Gomboc Gallery Sculpture Park.

Ray Surman graduated from Graylands Teachers College in the 1960’s where his mentors were Bryant McDiven and John Fawcett. He continued his art studies at the Old Perth Technical College where his later works were influenced by David Walker and George Haynes. Surman taught art at Geraldton Secondary College from 1971 to 1997. During this period, he was involved with various art groups including the Art and Craft Development Council and the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Geraldton. Surman is a multi-media artist who has divided his time between painting, drawing, print making, jewellery design and sculpture. Since moving to Fremantle in 2007, his sculpture practice has developed, particularly through his involvement in the Castaways Sculpture Awards, working mainly with recycled materials. Much of Surman’s work has a marine theme resulting from his many sailing expeditions to the Abrolhos Islands where he mapped the seascapes and man’s intervention in that pristine environment. His work can be found in AGWA in Geraldton, both the Geraldton Regional Hospital and St. John of God Hospital, as well as in private collections in Australia and overseas.

Elaine Miles is a Melbourne based artist working in installation, sculpture and performance. She has taken part in over 85 exhibitions at artist run spaces and in venues such as the Sydney Arts Festival, the National Museum of Singapore, Roulette Experimental Sound Space, New York, Melbourne Recital Centre, Federation Square, Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery, the National Glass Centre and various state run Craft Councils. Miles’ sculptural installations have been included in several National Sculpture Competitions, and in 2012 Miles completed her first major permanent outdoor art commission within the City of Wyndham. She was the winner of the 2008 Civic Choice Award in the prestigious Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture Award and was also the feature of an ABC documentary, Artists at Work. Miles has taken up sculpture and glass working residencies in Germany and the USA, and has obtained degrees in Ceramic Design, Applied Arts (honours), Fine Arts (masters) and PhD in Fine Arts. She is currently an Associate Lecturer in Fine Arts at Monash University.

Elyssa Sykes-Smith is a Sydney based artist currently exploring the figure through sculpture, in site-specific and installation works. She completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts, Honours in sculpture at the National Art School in 2013. Sykes-Smith has exhibited with Sculpture by the Sea since 2012, and received the Clitheroe Foundation Mentorship in 2012 and the Staff Choice Award in 2013. She was awarded the People’s Choice Prize in the Sculpture at Sawmillers in 2014; the Julian Beaumont Sculpture Prize in 2012; and the Sculpture in the Valley People’s Choice Award, Kangaroo Valley in 2011. She has taken part in the Heath Ledger Young Artists Oral History Project – a series of interviews to record artistic progress over the span of 20 years – run by the National Film and Sound Archives, and has recently completed a commission for Saatchi & Saatchi Australia. Through sculpture Sykes-Smith seeks to translate and evoke the expressive qualities of the figure, exploring form, space and movement, drawing from life studies and Cubists aesthetics to push the figure towards abstraction. Through site-specific sculpture, works not only respond to but also bring the site alive, creating a dynamic relationship between audience, artwork and environment.

Peter Zappa was received a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art at Curtin University in 2005 after studying part time for six years and working as a self-employed plumber. After graduating, Zappa pursued his ambition to be a professional artist. Since that time, Zappa’s art practice has continued to grow. He exhibits his work in both solo and group exhibitions and has commissioned works for government, corporate and private clients. Zappa is becoming known for his work with landscape designers and his unique linear sculptures that visually blend with their surroundings. Zappa’s sculptures are the product of his interest in perception; namely: how we perceive the relationship between objects and space, particularly when we are located within the space. Zappa’s aesthetic borrows heavily from drawing, an activity that he describes as a direct translation of perception rendered physically in two dimensions. He then creates three dimensional renderings of these perceptions, which are sculpture. Zappa works primarily in steel, as it is a material that embodies the visceral craft of forging, the character of drawing and the tangibility of three dimensional forms.

Jock Clutterbuck was born 1945 in Edenhope, Victoria. He is a sculptor and printmaker of national significance, known for his sophisticated abstract forms executed with precision and detail, while maintaining an impression of underlining esoteric mysticism. From the abstract movement in his finely patinated bronze sculpture to the precise script-like details in his limited edition prints, Clutterbuck masters his material. Clutterbuck studied sculpture and drawing at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology from 1965 to 1966, where he subsequently taught before taking up a role as the lecturer in sculpture at the Victorian College of the Arts from 1974 to 2000. He is represented in many national and international public art collections including the Museum of Modern Art New York, the Nation Gallery of Australia, the Art Gallery of NSW, the National Gallery of Victoria,

and the Queensland Art Gallery.



Clutterbuck has held around 40 solo exhibitions of sculpture and printmaking over a 48 year career. He has represented Australia in 14 international print biennales as well as numerous group shows around the world.

Yuko Takahashi was born and raised in Yokohama, Japan. She graduated from university with a law degree. After moving to Perth, Western Australia, in 2005, Takahashi studied graphic design at Central TAFE and worked as a graphic designer, while self-educating as a sculptor. Now, with sculpture taking precedence in her career, Takahashi’s artwork draws inspiration from the beauty of Japan, her childhood memories and the unique nature of Australia. Takahashi’s usual approach has been to create relatively small bronze sculptures, paying attention to detail. She is very committed to furthering her development and recently has created more abstract works, as well as venturing into the use of recycled materials. Takahashi’s sculptures have been displayed in a range of exhibitions, and are held in both public and private collections, including that of the City of Melville in WA. She won Second Prize in the 2014 Castaways Alcoa Sculpture Award.

Annette Thas, photographer, filmmaker, mixed media and sculpture and installation artist, was born in 1961 in Ghent, Belgium. At 19, Thas left Belgium to study sculpture at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Lyon, France. She returned to Ghent to study drawing at the Sint-Lucas School of Arts, then travelled and worked throughout Europe before settling in Perth in 1987, where she studied Fine Arts at the University of Western Australia.

After a decade in Australia, Thas returned to live in France where she exhibited in many exhibitions throughout Europe. After several years she returned to Perth, and has since completed numerous private commissions.

She has also undertaken two lengthy study tours of Europe exploring questions of Origins and Family, War, Language and Landscape, Madness and Art. Her current sculptural works are the first series in her Origins, Family and Shared History collection.

Ken Unsworth was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1931 and currently lives and works in Sydney. He attended school both in Melbourne and Sydney, studying at the University of Melbourne, Melbourne Teacher’s College and the National Art School of Sydney. Unsworth has held several teaching positions including Lecturer in Art at Bathurst Teacher’s College; Lecturer and Head of Art Teacher Education at the Tasmanian School of Art; and Lecturer in Sculpture at Sydney College of Advanced Education. Unsworth has held numerous solo exhibitions in Australia and overseas, including a major survey exhibition at the Art Galley of New South Wales in 1998. He has participated in major international exhibitions including the Paris Biennale, 1985; Magiciens de la Terre, Paris, 1989; and the Biennale of Istanbul, Turkey, 1995.