The 2009 Sidney Nolan Trust Sculpture ProgrammeFunded with a grant from Arts Council, England |
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The aims of the sculpture programme are to create high quality sculpture experience (participatory and otherwise) led by a sculptor of international standing and inspired by the unique rural location. This will provide attractive and challenging events and activities which will engage people at all levels in sculpture and cross disciplinary arts. Seminars and discussions with established international artists will complement the practical workshops. |
Whilst living at The Rodd in the 1980s Sidney Nolan was a keen collector of antiquities, Japanese bronzes and skeletal artefacts. He had intended that the Sidney Nolan Trust would renovate one of the ancient farm buildings at The Rodd as a museum/gallery for these sculptural items. Mindful of this the Trust is currently working to encourage and facilitate sculpture at The Rodd with the eventual aim of creating the gallery that Sidney had planned. In 2008 the Trust obtained a Lottery Grant from Arts Council England to enable a sculpture programme for 2008.
Lead Artist: Professor Rod Bugg Rod Bugg is a sculptor who has shown extensively in the UK, Europe and the Americas. His family home was in Herefordshire and he trained as a sculptor in London and South Wales before completing postgraduate study at Birmingham College of Art. He is currently represented by Galerie de Witte Voet in Amsterdam where he has exhibited regularly for the last twenty years.
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The Workshops
Sculpture workshops at the Rodd will be focused on construction and working with found objects and materials within and from the landscape. The farm offers access to all manner of materials including wood, stone and clay as well as natural objects and materials of every kind and scale. Participants will be encouraged to find inspiration for their own sculpture from the Rodd itself, its location, the river and woods, natural forms and the very special sense of place and atmosphere of the farm, its buildings, animals and history. |
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5/6th September 2009 Richard Harris' Masterclass Weekend. Richard Harris was born in Devon in 1954, and has lived in Wales since 1994. He has been involved in making human scale environmental sculpture consistently since 1976. Harris is a sculptor and principally a manipulator – often on a very large scale – of nature and the landscape. He first came to prominence as a result of permanently- sited works in the Grizedale Forest but has now worked all over the world including Australia, Japan, Italy, France, Germany, Korea and Cuba.Usually, though not invariably, his materials are natural ones, wood, stone and what he finds in the land, although some sculpture such as Wrexham ‘Two Rivers’ and Wolverhampton include steel , which skilfully echo the surrounding configurations and result in a keenly intelligent ambiguity: perhaps his best work is at the interstices of civil engineering and nature. Although his work is not figurative it has strong connections to architecture and lines of the natural and human landscape, creating places for people to move through, over, or to stop a while. He has several works in Wales, at St. Davids and the Welsh National Assembly, Senedd building in Cardiff. His largest work in Wales so far is ’Walking with the Sea’ a vast, lyrical, reorganisation of the foreshore and its hinterland at the Millennium Coastal Park, Llanelli. |
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Walking with the Sea - Turning with the Sea, Richard Harris - Millenium Coastal Park, Llanelli
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Woodland Sculpture Richard Harris Workshop - The Rodd 2008 |
River Sculpture Richard Harris Workshop - The Rodd 2009 |
July 2009 Atsuo Okamoto renowned Japanese sculptor came to The Rodd for a months residency. |
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| Flying Object Mitsui Bldg, Tsukuba city | UNIT position in wheat field, March 2001 |
M.V. Puzzle |
27th July 2009 One day workshop with Atsuo Okamoto Atsuo talked about and discussed his work as one of Japan’s leading sculptors. Working mainly in granite, Atsuo is represented in many international Collections. Participants were invited to paint/sculpt/carve or write on individual parts of a stone sculpture Atsuo created for The Sidney Nolan Trust. This was a unique opportunity to meet and work in a relaxed, informal atmosphere with a top international sculptor. The workshop included all ages and abilities. |
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| Sculpture, Atsuo Okamoto, The Rodd 2009 | Sculpture, Atsuo Okamoto, The Rodd 2009 |
"Sculpture and The Rodd"
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| Workshop sculpture, 2009, Rod Bugg | Workshop sculpture, 2009, Charlie Hurcombe | Workshop sculpture, 2009, Jim Griffith |
Art and Land: The Space Between A talk was given by Peter Murray OBE Executive Director The Yorkshire Sculpture Park in the Tithe Barn on 19th June 2009. The evening was very well attended with over seventy people coming from as far away as Shrewsbury and Hemel Hempstead. The talk covered the setting up of The Yorkshire Sculpture Park in 1976 with a thousand pound grant, to the present day and the installation of the latest exhibition of works by Peter Randall-Page. The talk focused on the siting and scale of the sculpture and then placing them in the landscape. |
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Peter Randall-Page, The Yorkshire Sculpture Park 2009 |
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Sculpture Programme 2008 “In Conversation” 14th. November 2008 A Symposium with international Sculptors.
The final (and biggest) event of the 2009 Sculpture Programme, “In Conversation”, was when the Sidney Nolan Trust hosted a major symposium on sculpture in a rural context. The event was organised in two parts and was audio recorded. The first session took place during the day and was directed at curators, sculptors/artists/professional makers and critics. It focused specifically on sculpture in a rural environment including making and curating work. Speakers that participated included: Professor Rod Bugg (Chair) and Lead Artist Professor Mel Gooding, distinguished writer and critic, Richard Wentworth, internationally renowned sculptor, Sjoerd Buisman, acclaimed Dutch sculptor working with and from nature Anne de Charmant of Meadow Arts and Amanda Farr of Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown, also contributed. The second session was open to the public and took place in the afternoon/evening when the key speakers made presentations and were ‘in conversation’ about their work, the future of sculpture, working in a rural context and other themes. The day was an exciting opportunity to engage in a debate about sculpture and to help foster the future of Sculpture at The Rodd. |
19th June 08 Hereford College of Art Introduction to Sculpture Course tutor: Rod Bugg Sculpture and the Great Outdoors 21-22 June 08 Two Day Sculpture Workshop Course tutor: Rod Bugg 28th June One day workshop for the Jammia Group, Course tutor: Tania Mosse 19th July One day workshop for the Jammia Group, Course tutor: Sally Mathews 24th July David Nash studio visit at Temple Capel Rhiw, Blaenau Ffestiniog 8th August One day workshop for the Jammia Group from Hurst Green, course tutor: Tania Mosse ‘Working with the Land’ 23 – 24th August Masterclass with Richard Harris exploring sculpture in the landscape 30th August One day stone carving, workshop for Ulfah Arts, Course tutor: Tania Mosse |
7 – 13th SeptemberThe International sculpture Residency which took place in early September at the Rodd, drew together a core group of sculptors in a programme of activity and discussion. It provided an opportunity for artists from Europe to work with sculptors from the region and nationally – thinking and making as well as contributing to the generation of ideas about ways to enhance the sculpture programme in 2009. The aim, over a period of time, is to establish an ongoing commitment to outstanding sculptors of international repute who can undertake short residencies at The Rodd enhancing their own work through reflection and activity and making a unique and lasting contribution not just to the Rodd but to their own aspirations and approach to making sculpture. The residency was part of the ongoing sculpture project at the SNT which is designed to make the Trust resources available to sculptors within the region of the Marches and beyond and to promote sculpture making for young people and the wider community and the West Midlands and Mid Wales. SNT anticipates that the residency will become an important part of the artists’ calendar at the Rodd which will make a lasting mark on the way sculpture in a rural environment is thought about and made. The 6 artists who took part this year were: Rod Bugg (Lead Artist at the SNT) Curdin Tones Margaret Wibmer Richard Harris Nick Lloyd Steve Hutton The artists came from Austria, England, Switzerland and Wales They are all artists associated with the programme at the SNT this summer or AIAS the International Association of Independent Art Schools. The intention of the workshop was to open up the resources of the Rodd Farm for the first time as a site for sculptors to work and talk together addressing issues of sculpture, site and location. The work shown in the green room, the tithe barn, courtyard, its buildings and the farm yard is the outcome of the interaction of the artists and their engagement with this particular location and was available for visitors to the Rodd to see during h.Art week. September/October workshops for the Royal National College for the Blind Hereford, course tutor: Lottie O’Leary
info@ysp.com Royal National College for the Blind
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