We Asked Nadine Schmoll 11 Interesting Questions About Herself. What was the inspiration behind your piece for SWELL Sculpture Festival 2023? Through my artwork, I wanted to celebrate the beauty of corals, but also to engage people on coral bleaching and the role which the coral’s symbiotic algae plays in ensuring its survival. My hope

We Asked Michael Brown 11 Interesting Questions About Himself. What was the inspiration behind your piece for SWELL Sculpture Festival 2023? From the 1st time I saw a Monaro and Torana as a young boy, I thought the guard flutes looked alot like shark gills and the front end of an XB Falcon looked like

We Asked Kahli Heit 12 Interesting Questions About Herself. What was the inspiration behind your piece for SWELL Sculpture Festival 2023? The amazing and underrated animal found in Australia and New Zealand. The Pipi Shell (Paphies Australis), also known as Yugarie or Ugarie in Yugambeh and Ugarapal languages. The shell is usually found on the

We Asked Kannitha Ly 12 Interesting Questions About Herself. What was the inspiration behind your piece for SWELL Sculpture Festival 2023? The inspiration for the work for Swell 2023 is partly derived from my discontent of living in a world with intolerance, disrespect, conflict and hate; yet conversely, seeing some form of progress in inclusion

We Asked Lyn Hadden 12 Interesting Questions About Herself. What was the inspiration behind your piece for SWELL Sculpture Festival 2023? I created Blue Butterfly Effect in response to my own feelings of eco-anxiety. Climate change has forced many of us to consider how we (humanity) contribute to the changes taking place in the environment

We Asked John + Anthony Forno 12 Interesting Questions About Himself. What was the inspiration behind your piece for SWELL Sculpture Festival 2023? The role climate change has played in the 2019/2020 Black Summer Bushfires and more recently the 2022 Eastern Australian Floods. Coal combustion contributes to a quarter of the worlds C02 emissions and

We Asked Glen Duncan 12 Interesting Questions About Himself. What was the inspiration behind your piece for SWELL Sculpture Festival 2023? It began as a play on the literal meanings of the words “Sea”and “Bed” and from there the idea germinated to represent what a discarded bed would look like and how it would integrate

We Asked Eleri Jones 12 Interesting Questions About Herself. What was the inspiration behind your piece for SWELL Sculpture Festival 2023? Two books were percolating in my mind at the time of conception for Finity. Clockwork by Philip Pullman and The Music of Chance by Paul Auster. To me both are stories about life, chronos-time

We Asked Charlie Trivers 12 Interesting Questions About Himself. What was the inspiration behind your piece for SWELL Sculpture Festival 2023? Natural forms found in sandstone along the east coast. I also like how waves collide with rocks at points along the ocean. What was your first artwork? How did it inspire you to grow?

We Asked Christopher Diaz 12 Interesting Questions About Themself. What was the inspiration behind your piece for SWELL Sculpture Festival 2023? The title is “MARMORIS”, and in Latin, it means “the shining surface of the Ocean”. One morning I went to the beach to see the sunrise. The skies were so clear and transformed into