Artist Profiles
Michael Le Grand
MICHAEL LE GRAND ACT, Australia Bondi Decade Club member since 2010 Helen Lempriere Scholarship recipient 2010 Cottesloe Decade Club member since 2016 “I am delighted to be included in the Double Decade Club and to have exhibited with many fine artists in this national and internationally significant sculpture exhibition since the first year in 1997. As…
Philip Spelman
DECADE CLUB ARTIST – PHILIP SPELMAN NSW, Australia Decade Club member since 2010 “The importance of Sculpture by the Sea to my career has been considerable. It is my only opportunity to regularly show large scale works. It resulted in my first overseas sales and my first overseas exhibition.” MORE SCULPTURES BY THIS ARTIST
Samantha Small
Samantha Small ACT, Australia Samantha Small is a multi-disciplinary artist working across the fields of sculpture, installation and photography. In 1998 Small gained a Bachelor of Visual Arts from the University of South Australia before completing a Master of Fine Art at Goldsmith’s College, University of London, in 2004. Over the past 15 years,…
Paul Selwood
DECADE CLUB ARTIST – PAUL SELWOOD NSW, Australia Decade Club member since 2015 “I have just returned from Ewaninga, Central Australia where millennia of art making, song, dance and ceremony, echo in the circles of the petroglyphs. It’s a bright spring morning and a pink galah alights on grey branches in the nitrogen blue sky….
Margarita Sampson
DECADE CLUB ARTIST – MARGARITA SAMPSON NSW, Australia Decade Club member since 2015 “In 1997 I was seduced away from the mirror-world of painting by the first call-out forSculpture by the Sea. After that I was hooked on making things that we could touch/smell/hear/see with our bodies that was in our space. The body never…
James Rogers
DECADE CLUB ARTIST – JAMES ROGERS NSW, Australia Decade Club member since 2011 “The challenge of Sculpture by the Sea is to make a piece that you feel can survive the indifference of an outdoor setting. It must stand up the majesty of the Bondi coastline in the proximity of 99 other attempts and be…