OREST KEYWAN
To art critics he is described as one of Australia's best sculptors, to the general pubic, Keywan's work has become an iconic presence in the international annual exhibition Sculpture by the Sea (SXS). Keywan is the only two-time Australian winner of SXS (1999, 2006).

Keywan has produced an impressive array of small and large-scale sculptures for over forty years. Arranged as if a diorama, his distinctive sculptural silhouettes extend and compress against their interior and exterior backdrops. Keywan's considered approach to making sculpture is reflected in his use of materials where some works containing a mixture of mild and stainless steel, limestone, sandstone and timber evolve over several years.
     
With an exhibition history that extends beyond Australia, Keywan’s works can be found in private and public collections nationally and overseas and his involvement in SXS07 (1-18 Nov) will mark the sculptor’s amazing 10th consecutive year exhibiting in the eleven-year old event.

RICHARD GOODWIN

Winner of the prestigious Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award (2004) and Sculpture by the Sea Prize (2003), Goodwin is a national figure in the public art debate. Within Goodwin’s extensive list of sculpture and installation projects he has explored the impact of the body and its disconnected relationship between technology and our urban landscape. His work represents the sculptural intersection of the natural and the artificial object and questions where the body stops and architecture or technology begins. Using the life model as a guide for drawings and the construction of maquettes, Goodwin has guided participants through the exploration of the point at which the body ends and architecture begins and how the space is affected by the continuous ‘wiggle’.

LINDA BOWDEN

Bowden has exhibited regularly in Sculpture by the Sea since 2000 and has been awarded its Australian Unrepresented Sculptor Award (2006) and the Waverley Council Prize (2002). Bowden was the Australian recipient of the UNESCOArt Residency in Ateliers Fourwinds, Provence France (undertaken in 2005). She has worked full-time as a sculptor for ten years exhibiting throughout Sydney and NSW. Working in either timber or steel, Bowden’s own work plays with gravity and perspective through intersecting abstracted forms and the multiple use of subtle and strong colours.

In ‘Sculpting the Urban’, participants will be guided through the process of using found objects, wood and cardboard to make a three-dimensional work or a wall relief along with understanding positive and negative space and how colour can exaggerate and expand shapes. Don’t miss Bowden’s latest entry in this year’s Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi.  

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