Location: Alpine Ash Walk, Sculpture Forest
Biography: Andrew Townsend and Suzie Bleach collaborate to make sculptures and installations often featuring familiar animal subjects to explore the relationship between humans and the natural world. They are represented in public collections including ACT Government, City of Goulburn, City of Willoughby and Balnaves Foundation.
Recipients of the Allens People’s Choice Award at Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2011 and Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe 2016. Townsend and Bleach have exhibited together at Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi three times since 2000, Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe three times since 2010 and Sculpture by the Sea, Aarhus-Denmark in 2011. Other major exhibitions include ‘What Lies Beneath’ CMAG, Canberra 2012 and at Ivy Hill Gallery, NSW in 2011.
Stage one of the Snowy Valleys Sculpture Trail was jointly funded by the Australian and NSW Government’s Bushfire Local Economic Recovery Fund, under the Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements.
