26th Annual Exhibition

SCULPTURE SURVEY 20097 - 28 JUNE 2009

Acknowledgements

Curtin University of Technology Edith Cowan University

Swan Tafe – Midland Campus

Distinguished Invited International Artists’ in Residence from JapanKoichi Ogino

Isamu Fujimoto

Curtin University of TechnologyAcademic StaffBruce Slatter

Therese HowardTechnical staff

Alan Markham Ben Kovacsy

Edith Cowan UniversityDr Nien Schwarz – Lecturer

& Visual Arts Course Coordinator David Hay – Lecturer

Janet Carter – Technician Denise Pepper – TechnicianNorton Flavel – Technician

Peter Reynolds – Hyaline Glass

Swan Tafe – Midland CampusPeter Dailey – Course co-ordinator

Michael Arnold – Lecturer Michael Jurotte – Technician

Dr Nien Schwarz Foreword

Sculpture Survey 2009$6,000 non-acquisitive Student prizes

Funded by R.M. & T.C. Gomboc

Catalogue published byGomboc Gallery Sculpture Park

50 James Road, Middle Swan 6056Western Australia

Tel: (08) 9274 3996Fax: (08) 9274 2665

Email: rm@gomboc-gallery.com.auGomboc-gallery.com.au

National Library of Australia Cataloguing in Publication DataSculpture Survey 09

Bibliography IBSN 1 875458 00 xCopyright Gomboc Gallery and participating artists

Printed by Pilpel Printing Company

Sculpture Survey 09 totally funded and curated by R.M. & T.C. Gomboc

Member of the Association of Western Australian Art Galleries

Front Cover Image: Koichi Ogino People 2009

Back Cover Image: Isamu Fujimoto Kabuki 2009

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foREwoRdFirst of all, a tremendous big thank you to Ron and Terrie Gomboc for again hosting the annual Gomboc Gallery Sculpture Survey, now in its 26th year. Since 1984, students from tertiary institutions across Perth have seized this opportunity to create and install sculptural works suitable for outdoor public exhibition. In 2009, the Gombocs are hosting the works of students from Curtin University of Technology, Edith Cowan University, and the Midland campus of Swan TAFE. For this year’s Survey, the non-acquisitive prize money for the students has increased to $6,000.

Seventy Five works by students are on display indoors and outdoors, and many works are for sale. These emerging artists have worked very hard in the past few months to develop their ideas into goals and from there into well-considered three-dimensional works. In preparation, workshops have been abuzz with a frenzy of activity for several weeks. For most students, this event will be the first exhibition entry on their artist CV and a very proud moment to remember with friends and family. Pick up a catalogue and a map of the sculpture park exhibition and enjoy the indoor and outdoor exhibitions.

In 2004, I was invited to write the foreword for the 21st Sculpture Survey. The range of venues for exhibiting sculpture outdoors in the larger metro region has greatly expanded since then. Ron and Terrie Gomboc have been instrumental in co-facilitating five consecutive Sculpture by the Sea events at Cottesloe (2005-09). Several local artists selected for this competitive beachside exhibition previously gained valuable experience as students participating in a Gomboc Sculpture Survey.

Other recent developments in the Perth region include commissions for permanent works at the Sculpture Park at Edith Cowan University’s Joondalup campus and for Curtin University’s (outdoor) Art Collection. St Georges Cathedral and the City of Perth are currently seeking expressions of interest for major site-specific works. There are also organised tours of the University of Western Australia’s Nedlands campus artworks, the annual City of Melville’s Sculpture Walk at Piney Lakes, as well as temporary outdoor exhibitions, such as the City of Perth’s 3x3 Urban Art project in Forest Chase. In addition, more local councils and developers are commissioning and purchasing works. However, the arts community is continuously engaged in vigorous debate about the merits and foibles of art in relation to public spaces. But whatever the opinion, works need to be maintained, and thank goodness the white and black marble landmark outside the State Library, Gate 2, Coalesce, by the late Akio Makigawa has been restored.

Established in 1982, Gomboc Gallery and Sculpture Park has grown tremendously in reputation and scope. Looking around, we can see from year to year how the Gombocs energize sculptural enterprises both near at hand and at a distance. Gomboc Sculpture Park is a continuous work-in-progress, featuring new and diverse works every year. The Gombocs are also very active in the national and international community, and regularly host artists-in-residence. Currently, Koichi Ogino and Isamu Fujimoto are creating unique stone and wood sculptures. This is the second year that these distinguished international artists have participated in a cultural exchange between Asago Museum and Sculpture Park in Japan and Gomboc Gallery. Other cultural exchanges have included artists from China, Indonesia, Singapore, Hong Kong, New Caledonia, Italy, Slovenia, Germany, Austria, England, and France.

Please enjoy the exhibition. The diversity of works to explore and contemplate is quite astonishing.

Dr Nien Schwarz Visual Arts Course Co-ordinator Edith Cowan University 2009

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fEATURE ARTISTS IN RESIdENCEKOICHI OGINO

ISAMU FUJIMOTO JAPAN

PARTICIPATING CAMPUSESCURTIN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY

EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY

SWAN TAFE - MIDLAND CAMPUS

INdooR EXHIBIToRSCURTIN UNIVERSITY

AYAH ALGARAGHOLLI

EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY

NATH ALLAN REBECCA ATKINSON

SARAH CAMPBELL AMELIA COOPER

PO KIM GAN KEN GRAHAM

SAMANTHA GRIERSON DELRENE HEMMINGWAY

SIMONE HICKS KATRINA HUNTER NAOMI HUNTER JULIE JACKMAN

LISA JEFFERY IRIS JOUSMA

DARIUS KOWAL MADELEINE LEEKE SHEREE LOFFMAN TALITHO MARCO LYNNE MITCHELL DEBBIE OAKLEY EDEL O’RIELLY

GRABLE PALAzzOLO CHRISTINE POINTON

JESSICA PREDOVNIK KRYSTAL SHEPHERD KATHLEEN WILTON

REzA YAHYA

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DISTINGUISHED INVITED INTERNATIONAL ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

FROM JAPAN

ISAMU fUjIMoTo1946 Born in Hyogo, Japan 1964 Graduate Youka Public High School1980 Commenced sculpturing - self-taught1994 Awarded the Excellence Prize at the Asia Hiroshima Art Award1995 Awarded the Excellence Prize at the 6th Sanda International Sculpture Competition (Sanda city, Hyogo)1996 Awarded the Judge’s Prize at the Japan Art Festival (Bamboo Installation) in Numazu2000 Invited to the 5th Stonecraft Festival “International Stone Sculpture Symposium” (Aji-cho, Kagawa Prefecture) Awarded Grand Prize at the International Woodcraft Symposium (France)2002 Hue International Stone Sculpture Symposium(Vietnam)2003 Awarded the Excellence Prize at the 2nd Geijustu no Mori Art competition (Asago, Hyogo)2008 Hyogo and Australia Artist in residence (Asago, Hyogo) Awarded the Premium Prize at the Biennial KUMAMOTO2009 Artist in Residence Gomboc Gallery Sculpture Park. Asago Museum and Sculpture Park / Gomboc Gallery Sculpture Park Cultural Exchange

Held private and group exhibitions in Hyogo, Kyoto, Osaka, Hiroshima, Kumamoto, Hokkido.

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DISTINGUISHED INVITED INTERNATIONAL ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

FROM JAPAN

KoICHI oGINo1954 Born in Niigata, Japan 1996 Awarded the Grand Prize at 8th Kobe Figurative Sculpture Grand Prize Exhibition 1997 International Stone Sculpture Symposium in Iwate, Japan 2000 Awarded the Grand Prize at Sakura no Mori Sculpture Competition Echigo Tumari Art Triennial 2000, Japan 2001 Nishiharima International Stone Sculpture Symposium in KANZAKI, Japan 2004 Stone Sculpture Symposium in IKAWA, Japan Organizer Sculpture by the sea, Bondi 2004~6 2005 Stone Sculpture Symposium in OGA, Japan Organizer 2006 Koichi Ogino Sculpture Exhibition in Aomori Contemporary Art Centre Stone Sculpture Symposium in KUZUTUKA, Japan 2007 The 22nd Exhibition of Contemporary Japanese sculpture Sculpture by the sea, Cottesloe2009 Artist in Residence Gomboc Gallery Sculpture Park. Asago Museum and Sculpture Park / Gomboc Gallery Sculpture Park Cultural Exchange

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CURTIN UNIVERSITY

Edward Mellor, James Sillitoe, David Wood Autumnus Arbor

First Year

1. Grace Gamage2. Edward Mellor Autumnus Arbor James Sillitoe David Wood3. Olivia O’Donnell But I dream of Ireland4. Eva Varga Reflections

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CURTIN UNIVERSITY

Zorana Gligor Forty Two

Second Year

5. Ayad Algaragholli I’m here6. Zorana Gligor Forty Two7. John Hutchinson If Only

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CURTIN UNIVERSITY

Christine Godfrey My Favourite Jumpers

Third Year

8. Christine Godfrey My Favourite Jumpers

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Grable Palazzolo Capture

First Year

9. Grable Palazzolo Capture

EdITH CowAN UNIVERSITY

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EdITH CowAN UNIVERSITY

Kimberley Pace The Viewers and the Viewed

Second Year

10. Sheree Bolton T1411. Sarah Campbell Communities12. Eric Chan Make a Wish13. Amelia Cooper Sense of the Season14. Casey Fairburn Drought15. Delrene Hemingway Our Joe on the run16. Katrina Hunter Water Reflections17. Lisa Jeffery Feathered Friend18. Madeleine Leeke The Nature of Resurrection19. Megan Mooney Tempted20. Debbie Oakley Picnic with Jane21. Jenna O’Meagher Through a child’s eyes22. Edel O’Reilly Life Supply23. Kimberley Pace The Viewers and the Viewed24. Joan Rowlands Glass Goddess25. Rohan Sibon Lumberjacks26. Rohan Sibon Looking out, looking in27. Reza Yahya Teepees

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EdITH CowAN UNIVERSITY

Iris Freya Jousma New Perspective

Third Year

28. Rebecca Atkinson Nested29. Ella Burrell Winters Rain30. Tara Degasperis Lost Child31. Tom de Munk-Kerkmeer Memory Sticks32. Ken Graham City People33. Simone Hicks Third space – Woman (Sponsored by Windella Alpacas)

34. Julie Jackman Ant Eater35. Iris Freya Jousma New Perspective36. Iris Freya Jousma Consciousness37. Sharee Loffman Follow?

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SwAN TAfE – MIdLANd CAMPUS

Ruth Adamson Mormolyce Phyllodes

Collin O’Brien Post Nuclear Mutually Assured Destruction: Mutated ants (Formicae Gigantorum) will rule the earth!

Second Year

38. Ruth Adamson Mormolyce Phyllodes39. Lora Birks Picnic40. Amber Farley Vorsepa Fetalicus41. Rennie McCullough Tartaruga Batida (Tortoise Beetle in Portuguese)

42. Georgina Moss Mythical Moss43. Alison Moor On the Move44. Collin O’Brien Post Nuclear Mutually Assured Destruction: Mutated ants (Formicae Gigantorum) will rule the earth!45. Lisa Sole Rhipicera : Feather or Fan Horned Beetles

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