Bird Song

Artist : Ross Laurie

Material : Galvanised Iron, Old Timber & Wire

Year Created : 2005

Artist's Location : Walcha

Type : Sculpture

This sculpture was created using motifs drawn by K-6 students at Walcha Central School.

While senior students assisted the artist with the engineering and stonework.

Funding was provided by Arts North West.

A collaborative work between the Artist and Walcha Central Students.

THE ARTIST:

Known for his abstract paintings, artist Ross Laurie was born in Walcha, located in the northern tablelands of NSW in 1961, he lives there still. Laurie studied Visual Art at Sydney College of the Arts in 1982. In 1984 and 1985 the artist travelled to London to complete a Foundation Course at St Martin’s School of Arts, and then continued his studies at Newcastle Polytechnic (now Northumbria University, UK). Upon returning to Australia, Laurie relocated to Melbourne in 1985 and graduated from a course in painting at the Victorian College Prahan in 1986. Laurie returned to Walcha in 1990, where he currently lives and practices. The artist’s work can be found in numerous state and corporate collections such as Artbank, AGNSW, National Gallery of Australia, New England Regional Art Museum, Tamworth Regional Gallery, the Laverty Collection Sydney, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Macquarie Bank Collection and NRMA Sydney.