Stewart Scambler likes to talk about the quality of a rock in the landscape.
Photo via Stewart Scambler
“There’s a rightness about its presence there, a quality of stillness that exists and a quality of discovering something new and previously unseen when you lift that rock,” he says.
This is my latest artist profile for Artsource newsletter, about potter Stewart Scambler. Please note it is now an entirely online publication.
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Rod Garlett is an Aboriginal artist from the Avon Valley, and I interviewed him for this Artsource story.
His signature style incorporates river sand from his family’s sacred dreaming place.
I was lucky enough to accompany Rod and take some pictures while he visited the site.
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TEXT AND PORTRAIT BY GEOFF VIVIAN
from Artsource April – June 2013
Pierre Capponi is eyeing off a stack of ornate pressed tin sheets that once lined a room in
Pierre Capponi
an old house. The century-old building material is the main sculptural medium he uses to create life-sized figurative works that evoke Goldfields ghost towns, rural rubbish tips and desiccated mammals you sometimes find on dusty outback roadsides.
In his early teens he migrated here from Marseilles with his family, and pressed tin features in his earliest Australian memories.
“We lived in Smith Street in Highgate,” he says. “My father was reading the racing form guide one morning and there was a shadow of him on the pressed tin wall. I always thought that was a beautiful moment. Continue reading