Artist Interviews 2023 | Ben Tarento
Tuesday, 08 August 2023
We Asked Ben Tarento 12 Interesting Questions About Himself. What was the inspiration behind your piece for SWELL Sculpture Festival 2023? The love of the ocean, the bizarre unseen world beneath the sea, and spending many hours underwater, over 3000 dives around the planet. Beneath the surface, the inspiration is dark subject matter as it
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Artist Interviews 2023 | Caitlin Mansfield
Tuesday, 08 August 2023
We Asked Caitlin Mansfield 12 Interesting Questions About Herself. What was the inspiration behind your piece for SWELL Sculpture Festival 2023? UP-RISE was a concept created by Ben Tarento. This dramatic sculpture draws its inspiration from the awe-inspiring world of coral reefs in the ocean. As artists, we recognise the critical need to shed light
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Artist Interviews 2023 | Dearne Dettrick
Tuesday, 08 August 2023
We Asked Dearne Dettrick 12 Interesting Questions About Herself. What was the inspiration behind your piece for SWELL Sculpture Festival 2023? There are a few inspirations for my SWELL work ‘Dune Daisy’. They are the resilence of beach vegetation, the delicateness and transience of blossoms blooming at the start of Spring and sunlight. What was
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Artist Interviews 2023 | Anna Bonshek
Tuesday, 08 August 2023
We Asked Anna Bonshek 12 Interesting Questions About Herself. What was the inspiration behind your piece for SWELL Sculpture Festival 2023? The inspiration for “Jyoti” came when I visited a Vedic structure in New Zealand recently, where the site is devoted to the quality of silence and references time and position in space. When I
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