Subject: April 2025 eNews: buy a sculpture and support TBSSS! Marble Workshop this April, enrol now for Term 2 and save + more special workshop news!

April 2025 eNews: buy a sculpture and support TBSSS! Marble Workshop this April, enrol now for Term 2 and save + more special workshop news!

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This month's features are:

  • Buy a sculpture and support TBSSS!

  • Limited places for the April 5 Day Marble Carving Workshop

  • Catch the Early Bird Discount and enrol for Term 2

  • Don't miss our upcoming Special Workshops - filling quickly!

  • NEW opportunities to work from the Life Model

  • TBSSS teacher news

Read on to learn more...

Precious Little Objects II

Buy a unique sculpture and support TBSSS!

Currently on show in Clara Street Gallery we have a beautiful and special group exhibition titled Precious Little Objects II. This is our biennial fundraising exhibition which raises funds for the Studio, through the sales of donated sculptures.


We are thrilled that we have sold several sculptures already and that funds raised will go towards our scholarship program which supports youth and artists with a disability. Funds will also help subsidise the costs of the life study program, an important teaching legacy of Tom Bass AM.


There are still a number of unique sculptures available for purchase that range in price from $200 - $1,800. This is a wonderful opportunity to support TBSSS and gain an outstanding work of art whilst doing so!

Exhibition artists include: Helen Alajajian, Karen Alexander, Tom Bass AM, Wendy Black, Carol Crawford, Christine Crimmins, Margo Hoekstra, Jules Jones, Anthony Mitchell, Ingrid Morley, Elena Murgia, Jenny Pollak.


We deeply thank the exhibiting artists for their donations and generous support of this special exhibition.


If you would like to visit the Gallery in person, we very much welcome visitors. Exhibition runs until 3 May. Please click here to view our opening hours.

Click here to view the online exhibition catalogue

Limited places for our final

5 Day Marble Workshop

with Usama Alnassar

Due to popular demand and a rare space in the Studio calendar - we are so happy that Usama Alnassar is able to run a 5 Day Marble Carving Workshop in April!


This is your last chance in 2025 to work with Usama, before he returns home to Italy. There are only a few places left - don't miss out.


5 Day Marble Carving with Usama Alnassar

Sunday 13 April – Thursday 17 April
9:30am – 4:30pm
Fees: $1,150 (piece of marble included in fees)


You will learn to use traditional hand-tools and techniques for carving, including methods of transferring ideas onto a piece of marble and finding form within the stone.  Participants will work directly on the famous White Statuario Marble from Carrara to acquire basic skills and to understand the nature of the material. 


Click here for more info and to enrol.

Catch the Early Bird Discount

Enrol now for Term 2!

Join us for our Open Workshop program in Term 2. The Early Bird Discount ends midnight Mon 7 April - book now and save $50.


As always, our workshops are open to any adult 18 years and over. We cater for all skill levels and aim to develop your knowledge and understanding of all aspects of creating sculpture in a range of media. 

Term 2 (10 week workshops) will run Mon 28 April - Sat 5 July 2025.

Click here to read more and to book your place. We hope to see you in the Studio!

Upcoming Special Workshops

Our upcoming Special Workshops are proving to be very popular! Continue reading to see what's on offer.


Stone Carving with Elena Murgia

Mondays: 28 April – 12 May (3 weeks)
6pm – 9pm

EB fee: $215 (ends 7/4) / General fee: $240


This brief course will help students undertake the basic techniques of carving. Learn how to remove step by step the material that is surrounding a sculpture, starting from unveiling the basic volumes connected together in harmonious composition and the beginnings of the finishing process where time permits.


Click here for more info and to enrol. 

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From Wax to Bronze with Michael Vaynman

Sat 12 & Sun 13 July 2025


FULLY BOOKED, get in touch to be added to the waitlist.

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Alabaster Carving with Carol Crawford

Sat 19 & Sun 20 July 2025


FULLY BOOKED, get in touch to be added to the waitlist.

NEW opportunities to work from the Life Model

There are two upcoming opportunities to work from the Life Model this autumn and winter.


Please note that Georgina Mills special offering, has new dates and will now be running in July.


Working from Life: Portrait Study with Wendy Black
Tuesdays: 27 May – 24 June (5 weeks)
10am – 4pm
EB fee:$580 / General fee: $640

This course will be an intensive head study based on close observation of the forms, proportion and relevant anatomy. Students will be asked to observe closely and work quickly so that they are relying on their observational skills not on what they think they know of a head. It is surprising what can be achieved working in this way. Students will develop a greater understanding, as well as skills in drawing in 3D, modelling in clay, as well as mould making and casting in plaster.


Click here for more info and to enrol.

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¾ Life-size Torso Sculpture Workshop with Georgina Mills
Monday 7 July – Friday 11 July
Mon – Thu:10am – 2pm, Fri: 10am – 3pm
Fees: $790.30

This is an intensive workshop that aims at improving student’s observational skills, sculpture techniques and knowledge of human anatomy and form. This course is specifically designed to introduce students to sculptural methods that help simplify the complexities of the human figure.


Over the course students will sculpt from life a ¾ life-size torso with water-based clay. Group lessons and daily individual critiques will help to guide them through this process. Students will then prepare their sculpture to be kiln fired locally at their convenience. Students are to be aware that the kiln firing process can be unpredictable in results and the main goal of the workshop is learning how to improve their sculpting from life skills.


Only 8 places available for this special workshop.


Click here for more info and to enrol.

TBSSS Teacher News

Congratulations to TBSSS teacher Karen Alexander who is currently exhibiting some of her sculptural ceramics work (pictured above) in a group exhibition at Hazelhurst Arts Centre.


FLOW: Fluidity of Expression is a group exhibition which showcases Gymea TAFE Ceramic Design Studio’s Advanced Diploma students.


It features the work of seven unique artists, including Karen, who, through the act of making, transform life’s joys and obstacles into tangible displays of emotion, fragility and strength.


The exhibition continues until 8 April and is open daily, 10am - 4pm.


Congrats Karen!

We thank the City of Sydney for their ongoing support of TBSSS, through the Accommodation Grants Program.

Donate to the Tom Bass Sculpture Studio School

We wanted to bring to your attention that every donation you make to the Tom Bass Fund for the Promotion of Sculpture (over $2) is completely tax deductible. You can donate either through PayPal or call 02 9565 4851 to make a donation over the phone.


We thank you for your consideration.


Pictured above: TBSSS scholarship students working in the Studio.

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