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What's On?14 - 23 September, 2012
Twilight Sculpture Walks
Twilight walks aim at exploring the sculptures through interpretation of their meaning, form and materials used.
DETAILS: Meet at Sculpture 1 at 4.30pm - Sunday 16th, Thursday 20th & Sunday 23rd.
Artist Talks
Enjoy casual talks by artists at their
sculpture during the exhibition. Find out where the artist's
idea came from and how and why they made it. Delve deeper into each
sculpture and gain insight and understanding of their work. Q&A welcome.
DETAILS: Artist Talks are held throughout the exhibition, visitors can obtain times from the Information Hub.
Swell Smalls Gallery
The Swell Smalls Gallery is an exhibition of smaller works by exhibiting artists of Swell. Located at The Way of Design (next to The Deck Cafe).
DETAILS: This exhibition is open 9am - 4pm from September 8th until Sunday, September 23rd.
Swell Kids Workshops
With invited UK artist Leonie Rhodes, students will be taken on a journey, learning how to create small figurative sculptures that interact with each other. The workshops will reflect the work Significantly Small in the main exhibition reminding us of our innate power and connectedness to nature and how we can make a difference in the world, however small. DETAILS: Sessions are 9.30am - 11am OR 12pm - 1.30pm on Saturday 15th & 22nd and Sunday 16th & 23rd September. Cost: $10 per child BOOK ONLINE
Public Art Forum
Join us for a lively conversation at the Public Art Forum as we delve into the idea of Equilibrium with guest speakers Yellow Goat Design + Jason Nelson + Erica Gray. DETAILS: 1.30pm for 2pm start, Tuesday 18th September, Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary Green Guardian Theatre. BOOK ONLINE
People's and Kids' Choice Awards
Visitors can vote for their favourite sculpture in the People's Choice and Kids' Choice Awards. Remember to vote for yours when you visit Swell Sculpture Festival. Entry forms are in The Sun Community Newspaper leading up to
the exhibition and in the exhibition program on sale at The Hub and Info
Tents.
Swell Sounds
Sit amongst the sculptures at the Swell Sounds
Stage at the central boardwalk and enjoy music from
local bands. If you prefer to keep wandering - be entertained by buskers as
they weave their tunes throughout the exhibition.
DETAILS: On the weekends between 12pm - 4pm Live T-Shirt Printing - Come & Print Your Own T-Shirt
On the weekends, be part of the creative process with splashes of colour on cotton and print your very own 10th year commemorative T-shirt. Come and give it a go at the Print Your Own T-shirt Pop-Up, next
to the main Info Hub. Powered by the lovely folk from PSI Screen
Printing.
DETAILS: On the weekends between 9am - 5pm
For nine weeks in 2013 larger-than-life sized koala sculptures will be displayed on the streets of the Gold Coast showcasing the wealth of artistic talent in the area.Swell Sculpture Festival is pleased to exhibit the first sculpture
for the inaugural Animals with Attitude Gold Coast sculpture trail in the Wallace Nicoll Park at the northern end.
The sculpture was designed and created by Academy Award winning artist John Cox with the artwork design and painting by David Renn. If you are an artist interested in participating with Animals with Attitude please email your expression of interest to attitude@swellsculpture.com.au
Onsite Clay Firing
Ray Cavill’s work Fusion Bowl will be fired in situ on two evenings during the exhibition. With temperatures reaching over 1000 degrees, this firing will be visually impressive with fascinating first hand explanation of the intricate process given by the artist. The clay firings will take place on the Saturday evenings at sculpture site 6.
DETAILS: from 6pm Saturdays 15th & 22nd.
The clay firing is weather dependent check at the Info Hub, facebook & twitter for updates Dark Neon
Dark Neon is a collective night projection, a contemporary art process that combines cinematic technology with moving images. Invited Gold Coast artists Mariam Arcilla, Alex Chomicz, Jason Nelson and Damien O’Mara are prominent contemporary artists with extensive
credentials in film, contemporary arts, and literature. Through
collaboration, they will engage the ‘night walkers’ and audiences of
the Swell Sculpture Festival with their own individual digital narrative
response creating a whole new dimension to the world of sculpture, as we know it.
DETAILS: Most evenings between 7pm - 9pm
The projections are weather dependent check at the Info Hub, facebook & twitter for updates
Claymation
What would happen if the Swell sculptures came to
life? What would they do? Where would they go? What would be their journey?
These are some of the questions being put to the Junior Film Excellence
students at Palm Beach Currumbin State High School, who are currently in the
process of developing a short Claymation Project that brings the Swell
Sculpture Festival to life.
Master Class
Phillip Piperides is recognised in Australia and internationally as a master craftsman with an extensive history in modeling, casting and finishing. Visitors will have an amazing opportunity to learn from this figurative master a range of traditional techniques to modeling a torso from a live model.
DETAILS: 9AM - 4PM Friday September 21 Alley Board Riders Pacific Parade, Currumbin Beach. SOLD OUT!
Swell Yanguwah Experience
The Swell Yanguwah Experience at Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary
will immerse you in an engaging evening of Indigenous Australia, native
wildlife, artist talks and sculpture. The experience includes a
traditional welcome ceremony, Kup Murri feast, Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander song and dance performances and an introduction to
native Australian animals, indigenous art and their connection to
Aboriginal people. MORE INFO Gourmet BBQs & Ice Cream
Experience the culinary delights of local chefs from the Beach Shack Café during the exhibition weekends and cool down with a delicious ice-cream from the local, traditional whippy style van. Alternatively park at the Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary Car Park - Tomewin Street, for a flat fee of $5 with proceeds
directed back to Swell Sculpture Festival’s Charity of Choice – Currumbin
Wildlife Hospital Foundation.
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