I went to see Sculpture by the sea at Bondi last week (in the rain!) and was blown away by “Toads on Tour” by Hannah Kidd.
I honestly thought that it would get the people’s choice prize it was attracting so much attention. Well, I voted for it but it didn’t so I thought I would post the images I took of it as a tribute.
Great aren’t they!
I’m also really taken with the technique, using scrap metal riveted together not least because, in sculptural terms, it is relatively cheap.
Although I love working with clay, I have always wanted to be able to cast some of my stuff in metal but the cost, even for “cold casting” is just prohibitive so maybe this would be the way to go.
Another sculpture, “Two dogs in a house on a boat in the water”, by Daniel Clemmett, also used a similar technique to achieve quite a large sculpture with great success and greater size is also something I would like to achieve.
Not sure what happened to the dogs thoughJ
