Restoring Art with Love Since I need to regularly maintain and sometimes restore my own bronze sculptures, I’ve started doing this work for others. Let me know of any sculptures that need repairing or restoring, especially bronze artworks that have gone a bit dull and...
Shell: What Lies Below. October ’17. While working on my Pilbara turtle molds (for The Vast Project), I started making little underwater scenes in wax: shells, coral, turtles, divers… miscellaneous industrial remnants. The first finished piece from this series...
The Vast Project: Turtle installations. September 8-14,2017. Nick Sheppard, Paul McDermott and Gavan Healy [Photos: Russell Ord Photography] Vast was a huge success, so many amazing artists, musicians, songwriters…all together in Cossack, being inspired by the...
Marngrook Footy Show. 2 Sept ’17 I had an enjoyable time with the Marngrook Footy Show crew (Leila, Danni, Steve and Andrew) when they visited my studio at the end of August, to talk about making sculptures such as the recent statue of Kevin Bartlett. Although...
My new studio. 1 Aug ’17 New studio – so much space! I’ve sculpted 6 150% life-sized bronze athlete sculpture in the past 5 years, but in April this year, I finally had a break from commissions – time to relocate to a bigger studio! The new space is twice as big...