Fri 20th - Sun 22th February 09 | 10am - 6pm
Edge gallery
green mixed materials
Artist’s Statement
My current art practice emphasises the non-permanence of the sculptural object. This is the basis for my sustainable art practice where I continually re-use and re-configure salvaged materials and found objects into a variety of object-based works, sculptural installations, temporary constructions or assemblages; and document the processes.
Tony Adams
I have works held in various private and public collections from Byron Bay to Bells Beach. I have exhibited extensively in a variety of group and solo exhibitions, festivals and conferences. Last year I won the Montalto Sculpture Prize on the Mornington Peninsular with an ecological work titled ‘Vanish’ (collaboration with Caitlin Street). In the early 90’s, I studied at the National Art School in Sydney; and more recently I completed a Masters of Visual Art at the Victorian College for the Arts. Over the past 15 years, my sculptural practice has continued to utilise readily available materials and objects from my immediate environment wherever I live. I am currently working on a Masters by Research project at Monash University called “Anatomy of Waste”. This site-specific project involves the collecting, cataloguing and documenting flotsam & jetsam from the shorelines of Port Phillip Bay and the streets of Melbourne:- artist-as-archaeologist.
weldingbayman@optusnet.com.au