The Sculptinators

Recent Work

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  Little White Peacock in a Field of Color by Mui-Ling Teh

  I hope people aren’t tired of my origami; but I needed to do this before the flower dies; my mom brought some flowers back from a wedding two weekends ago, and when I saw this particular flower, I really wanted to create this image because the centre of this flower looked like a field. The folded peacock is comprised of two piece of paper: one for the body, the other for the tail. The body is made from a 6×6mm paper, and the tail I faned out of a circle about 1cm in diameter which I cut a slit through. The peacock walks through a field of colour and gets pollen on itself; and that is how the peacock got its color!

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  Calling all Artists "RIPE: Art & Australia/ANZ Private Bank Contemporary Art Award"…RIPE: Art & Australia/ANZ Private Bank Contemporary Art Award application form The…

  RIPE: Art & Australia/ANZ Private Bank Contemporary Art Award application form The RIPE: Art and Australia/ANZ Private Bank Contemporary Art Award promotes the work of emerging artists, publishing an image of the winner’s work on the back cover of Art & Australia magazine. RIPE recipients are further supported via the purchase of at least one of their artworks. Entrants must be visual artists who have been practising professionally for no more than five years, and who have had their work publicly exhibited. Application closing dates: / Round 5: 1st August 2008 This scheme aims to promote the work of emerging artists through Art & Australia magazine, and to financially support them through at least one of their works being purchased. Two artists will be selected every six months using the following selection criteria: artistic merit and well-developed concepts. / a well developed artistic practice and vision of a professional career. / Artistic merit will be judged on the basis of work completed to date. The applicant’s commitment to furthering his/her career in the visual arts, will be assessed from information provided in the CV, artist’s statement and letters of recommendation by referees. Unsuccessful applicants are welcome to re-apply, but successful applicants are ineligible for further assistance through this scheme. Eligibility: You must be an “emerging artist” you have probably practised as a professional artist continually for less than 5 years but wish to develop your career in your chosen artform. / You must be an Australian or New Zealand citizen, or have permanent resident status in Australia or New Zealand. Applicants are required to: complete a typed or neatly handwritten submission on the Application Form / supply support material including: / - a curriculum vitae, no more than 1 x A4 pages in length / - digital images on CD or submitted on-line through the Artists Profile on this site (images no larger than 1MB). Visuals must be clearly labelled, with your name, title of work, year, media and orientation. Do not send original artwork / - 2 professional references; / - an artist statement (200-300 words) clearly and succinctly describing your recent work. / send all this material to the National Association for the Visual Arts office with a stamped, self-addressed envelope with sufficient postage for return of visuals and letter of notification. / It is a condition of entry to the Award that the winner will grant a limited, non-exclusive copyright licence for Art & Australia to reproduce the work in the agreed issue of Art & Australia magazine and on the Art & Australia website for the purposes of promotion and for news reporting and review leading up to the following round of the competition. NAVA also will be granted a similar limited, non-exclusive copyright licence from the winning entrant to allow his/her work to be reproduced for the same purpose and for acquittal and annual reporting requirements. Successful applicants may be asked to make themselves available to the media by phone, fax, email or in person following the announcement of winners. An event announcing the winners will be held in Sydney at a date to be advised. Applications must reach the NAVA office, or be postmarked by, the above due date. Faxed applications will not be accepted. Notification: A shortlist of 20 artists is selected by members of the Art & Australia advisory board. The final decision is made by staff of Art & Australia (in consultation with the advisory board).

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  Hellraiser Kitty by santakaoss

  I had to borrow this odd little pin cushion from my local sewing shop for a couple of days, not that i go into this type of shop often. / From pin cushion to pin head!

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  Hellraiser Kitty by santakaoss

  Originaly a cute pin cushion / now, Hellraiser’s fluffy little side kick!

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  "I feel sick" The Twin Face by Patricia Anne McCarty

  These are made of plaster and painted with ceap kid water colors. The plasters came from a mold I made myself from one of my sculpted faces.

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  Born from the Hand by Mui-Ling Teh

  I used tweezers to create the last few folds. I can’t remember how big the paper was, though the wing is 7mm long. So basically I present the creator and the creation where the crane is framed by my fingers forming a circle. We can only understand size, fragility and significance when we compare two things. When we think, for example, how big the world is, we’re like tiny little specks of sand, or even atoms, to the eyes of a God holding the earth in his palm. I did not make this crane and take the picture with the description in my mind; but created it by instinct. It wasn’t easy drawing out my words initially. However many viewers have left very inspiring comments about my work, and for that I am grateful. Thank you. Born from Fingers / Born from the Pinky / Bloomed from Fingers / The Key to Peace / Sailing Along The Lifeline / *Little White Peaocock in a Field of Color” /

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  Along the Way ~10K Day~ by LoveMy7Cs

  Some beautiful Victorians on route. But no bathroom!