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I am interested in wildlife in general and megafauna in particular - animlas like rhinos, hippos and buffaloes - that leand themselves to sculpture by dint of strong body lines.
oce I become interested in a particular speciies, I'll want to see an individual in person and observe it as much as I can. For example, as preparation for my white shark scultp, I dived in the waters off South Australian Coast to get film of great whites. I'll take film, phtoos, drawings and generally get as much information as possible. Research also ideally includes getting good skeletal and musculate drawings.
I then work from the inside out, finishing with the various skin textures. Once this is done, it's off to the foundary to have a mould made and bronze poured. It's essential to have a close working relationship with the foundry to get the finished piece to the point of sale.
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There are no kangaroos in Austria. We're talking about Australia, the world's smallest continent. That being cleared up, let's dive right in! Australia is a sovereign state under the Commonwealth of Nations, which is in turn overseen by Queen Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, Queen of Australia and Her other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth. The continent was first sighted and charted by the Dutch in 1606. Captain James Cook of Britain came along in the next century to claim it for Britain and name it "New South Wales." Shortly thereafter it was declared to be a penal colony full of nothing but criminals and convicts, giving it the crap reputation you may have heard at your last cocktail party. This rumor ignores 40,000 years of pre-European human history, especially the Aboriginal concept of Dreamtime, an interesting explanation of physical and spiritual reality. The two biggest cities in Australia are Sydney and Melbourne. Sydney is more for business, Melbourne for arts. But that's painting in very broad strokes. Take a whirl around the panoramas to see for yourself! Text by Steve Smith.
