Stephen King

Art school in Toowoomba, then thirty years exhibiting painting and sculpture in Sydney.

23 years teaching part-time in the sculpture studio at the National Art School. Working full time from Walcha for a decade now.

23 Solo Exhibitions.

18 times Sculpture by the Sea exhibitor.

Public commissions including the cities of Tamworth, Walcha and Glen Innes.

I make sculpture out of wood, sometimes figurative, sometimes abstract constructions. We have good hardwoods on our farm. I drag the logs to my studio and chop them into shape.

If I’m working on an abstract construction I mostly build a scaled marquette before I start the work so almost no creative decisions need to be made during the construction stage. I cut the logs into trussed beams of my own design, making constructions based on the grid.