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SCULPTURE BY THE SEA BONDI 2022
24TH EXHIBITION | 21 OCTOBER – 7 NOVEMBER 2022
Sculpture by the Sea returned to the Bondi to Tamarama Beach coastal walk as the world’s largest free to the public sculpture exhibition. The spectacular coastal walk will be transformed into a 2km long sculpture park over three weeks featuring more than 100 sculptures by artists from Australia and across the world.
Black Summer Artist Statement
Objects as repositories of memory and individual personal landscape’s inform our identity and histories. It is the stories associated with these that continue to influence my art practice.
Black Summer reflects my personal experience of a holiday season that never was, a summer unlike any other and an event that impacted the lives of so many in my region.
Last summer proved to be an incredibly challenging time. The bushfires began swiftly with a dry lightning strike late November within a National Park adjoining our farm. The fires continued for weeks, spreading rapidly and unpredictably. Persistent days of smoke-filled air, showers of burnt debris and ferocious winds proved exhausting and terrifying. Falling eucalyptus leaves an indication of the closeness of the fires, the power of the winds and dramatic changes occurring in my surrounding landscape.
Each day became a relentless battle against nature at its most ferocious and erratic. The smell of smoke permeated everything. The sky a menacing concoction of red, orange and black.
To travel between our farms was to experience an unrecognisable scene – one of a foreign landscape – black, white, grey with the bright orange and red of burning vegetation.
The black steel in my work Black Summer signifies the burnt trunks of countless eucalyptus trees destroyed in the bushfires. Red steel strips illustrate flames rising upwards, rapidly advancing along treetops, racing towards their next target- never letting up.
As you stand between the trunks, you are enveloped within the darkness but look up and clear, blue skies come into view. Familiar landscapes can be subjected to dramatic changes forming fresh memories.
The rains did come, the bush fires faded, the landscape transformed- then nature struck again!
https://sculpturebythesea.com/bondi/
https://youtu.be/PMjbeeC3oNw
Canberra Art Biennial -Contour 556 - I HAVE A SCULPTURE IN THIS !!
CANBERRA ART BIENNIAL 2022
1 – 29 OCTOBER 2022
contour556 returns for The 4th edition this October – bigger and better than before.
The 2022 edition sees the festival rebranded as Canberra Art Biennial, and sees expansion to the National Arboretum (contour 656), the University of Canberra (contour 606) as well as maintaining and building further on our presence in North and South Canberra, centred on contour 556, the height above sea level of Lake Burley Griffin.
Canberra Art Biennial extends across Canberra’s public spaces, and we are excited to partner with more private and public gallery / cultural spaces in inner north and south Canberra.
ABOUT THE WORK NO BOUNDARIES
Bushfires, floods and Covid have all played a part in dismantling our every day lives and sense of
normality. Along with inconsistent advice, border closures and State versus State bickering, we have
seen an unravelling and chaotic period in Governments, when what we needed most was a strong
united front!
The bushfires of late 2019 into 2020 roared through the region without regard for fences or
borderlines, wiping out everything in the way. Floods soon followed. Then Covid.
Using the 1954 land survey map showing the 15 districts within the ACT, No Boundaries illustrates
the tumbling of these borders, the falling away of the familiar, the collapsing of the safe peripheries
we once knew.
Boundaries, fences, and lines drawn on a map, are not solid barriers to what nature has thrown at
the people of Canberra and the surrounding region over the past few years but are purely used to
illustrate an illusion of safety and certainty.
https://contour556.com.au/artist/naomi-taylor-royds/
https://contour556.com.au/festival/2022-2/
Sculpture@Shaw
Winner -EMERGING ARTIST PRIZE 2022 !!!!
Happy to be the recipient of the Emerging Artist Prize at Sculpture@Shaw !
-Excited to announce that I was the recipient of The Emerging Artist Prize!!!
A huge thank you to Shaw Wines and Belconnen Arts Centre and thank you to the following -Graeme Shaw, Genevieve Jacobs and Sarah Schmidt for judging the works.
Also thank you to all involved- get along if you can! Open until 20th March.
https://www.belcoarts.com.au/shaw/
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7641332/act-artist-wins-winerys-new-sculpture-prize/
SCULPTURE@SHAW
Postponed - new dates - Opening Friday 4th March, Exhibition 5th March - 20th March 2022
Sculpture - Outdoor Exhibition and Cellar Door Exhibition to be held at Shaw Winery in beautiful Murrumbateman -just outside Canberra.
Come along for a look at some great sculptures. My work Redgum has been selected - so if you didn’t get a chance to see this work at Sculpture by the Sea in 2019 ,now’s your chance!
https://www.belcoarts.com.au/shaw/
http://sculptureatshaw.com.au/
https://shawwines.com.au/event/sculptureshaw/
Sculpture by the Sea 2020 - NOW 2021 - OOPS NOW 2022 - HAS BEEN POSTPONED DUE TO COVID 19 . Dates TO BE ADVISED
Sculpture by the Sea is once again on at Bondi!!
So excited to have been selected once again - such a wonderful presence of Australian artists this year so it will be a “Must visit”!!
My work this year is inspired by the dreadful bushfires in my home area that began soon after I returned from Sydney following last years Sculpture by the Sea!!
The Black Range bushfire began in late November 2019 in the National Park behind our farm in Braidwood and continued for months over the summer as another bushfire ,the Currawan fire, also took hold on the opposite side of my hometown spreading throughout the local landscape and to the South Coast towns! Surrounded by fire and smoke for the summer - devastating the landscape and keeping everyone on high alert -relentless ,frightening and so destructive.
'Black Summer is a large welded steel sculpture inspired by the fires,the eucalyptus trees and my personal landscape.
Hope to see you there!!
Dates -yet to be announced for 2022
https://sculpturebythesea.com/bondi/
https://www.smh.com.au/culture/art-and-design/sculpture-by-the-sea-set-to-stay-in-bondi-for-at-least-five-years
Goulburn Regional Art Award 2020
So pleased to be a finalist again in this great Regional Art Award. Even better as so many exhibitions and Art competitions have been cancelled due to Covid-19.A huge thanks to the team at Goulburn Regional Art Gallery for continuing into this unknown territory.
This year the Opening and Award announcement will be live online - glass of champagne in hand!!
Congratulations to all participants and winners!!
https://goulburnregionalartgallery.com.au/exhibitions/the-2020-goulburn-art-award
For the catalogue ;
https://goulburnregionalartgallery.com.au/media/uploads/2020_04/CatalogueGoulburnArtAward2020.pdf
LIVERPOOL SCULPTURE WALK 2020 CASULA POWERHOUSE ARTS CENTRE
My sculpture Red Gum stands alongside the Georges River as part of the Liverpool Sculpture Walk, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre - a little different than it looked at Sculpture by the Sea ... good to know it's versatile!! In the fabulous company of nine other artists until the end of August!
https://www.liverpool.nsw.gov.au/community/major-events/liverpool-sculpture-walk
https://www.liverpoolchampion.com.au/story/6522738/new-sculptures/
https://arichlife.com.au/liverpool-sculpture-walk-sydney-until-31-august
www.smh.com.au/culture/art-and-design/seven-sculptures-by-the-sea-head-west
SCULPTURE BY THE SEA 2019 BONDI
Thrilled to be included in the wonderful outdoor sculpture exhibition from Tamarama to Bondi!!
Broken Hill Art Exchange - May 2019 TROVE
Still working on this project!!!
Looking forward to visiting the ‘Silver City” of Broken Hill - a place I’ve wanted to see for a long time!
This will be a research residency and I hope to interview a bunch of locals and fellow creatives! I’m continuing and expanding upon the concept of memory ,domestic object and landscape. Broken Hill should prove to be a fascinating contrast to the local areas of Canberra and Braidwood.
TROVE Project Description
The research I propose to undertake during this residency deals with the concept that we place personal and emotional value upon humble objects in our homes.
The notion that objects are imbedded with memory by their current owner, these memories will change, be added to or may be completely forgotten and replaced by a new history dependant on future owners and environments is fascinating to me. Surrounding environments may have an impact on our choice of objects - or perhaps the domestic and natural landscapes are irrelevant and it is our personal memories that prove to be the driving element behind our choice. Are we attracted to certain objects or the people they came from ? are they gender specific? - so many questions and I’m excited to delve into the many questions I have and to collate this research.
The research I will undertake this year will result in a new body of work - Trove.
“Past memories, present experiences and future dreams of each person are inextricably linked to the objects that comprise his or her environment.”
The Meaning of Things, Domestic Symbols and the self. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi & Eugene Rochberg-Halton
“Eucalyptus Triad”-Public Sculpture Denman Prospect,2018- Completion 2019
Very exciting to have this steel sculpture finally installed!!
Excerpt from The Canberra Times 12/02/2019
“The public art includes a large red piece outside the supermarket, which was commissioned through a competition for students in the sculpture department at the ANU School of Art.
The winner was Naomi Taylor Royds who was inspired by the bush capital to come up with her piece, Eucalyptus Triad. It was a thrill to see her work in such a public place after graduating in 2017.
"It's exciting and I feel very privileged," she said. "As a relatively new graduate and emerging artist, it's a wonderful opportunity."
CAPO AWARD 2018
I was thrilled to be the recipient of Capital Insurance Brokers Emerging Artist Award.I will use the funds to purchase much needed equipment to continue making art!
I was sorry to miss what is always such a fabulous evening!
Congratulations to all the other award winners.
https://capo.org.au/2018-award-recipients/
https://citynews.com.au/2018/arts-painter-wins-top-capo-award/
Exhibitions 2018
Alliance Francais ,Turner ACT, EASS Award - Perennial 16th August Opening Night.
Exhibition opens from August 16th - September 10th.
https://www.facebook.com/AFCanberra/
https://www.afcanberra.com.au/
EXHIBITION SUMMARY_
Should we rethink our relationship to objects? To what extent are we influenced by the objects around us, and more generally by the atmosphere in which we live?
Can we say that objects have a memory and a soul ? What interaction is there between the object and our spirit, our memories and emotions?
The objects have a meaning in the collective unconscious however, they are telling different stories, and they make us travel back in time or in the future. We are constantly influenced by objects and atmosphere in every aspect of life and its relationships with memory. The perennial exhibition is inspired by these everyday objects we use our connection to them and to the environment, what we perceive or not.
Perennial experience is challenging the connection we have with the ordinary, and enhances the hidden secrets and power of the objects and more broadly, the environment. It reminds us how important it is to be able to keep some consciousness of the nature of the objects that surround us.
ARTWORKS BY:
ELLEN ROSALIE GUNNER
CEILIDH DALTON
TALFRYN DAVIES
NAOMI TAYLOR ROYDS
ROMANY FAIRALL
CCAS MANUKA -The Memory Within - My first solo show. 12th- 22nd July .
Memory Within deals with the idea that we place personal and emotional value within the humble objects in our homes and intimate environments. Naomi Taylor Royds has focused on those collected trinkets and things, as well as the ordinary everyday objects largely unnoticed but with which we associate certain domestic ritual and their accompanying memories.
This collection of works questions the understanding in the importance of familiar domestic objects and the consideration that perhaps it is only through a personal connection that we find true value in the ordinary.
https://www.art-almanac.com.au/naomi-taylor-royds-memory-within/
THE MEMORY WITHIN
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Naomi Taylor Royds (centre) and friends
At CCAS Manuka we have Naomi Taylor Royds’ The Memory Within, an exhibition focusing on household, objects in which she invests an emotional attachment. Consisting of prints, sculptures and installations this is a show that romanticises and elevates, for example, the humble wooden spoon or immortalises the utilitarian bowl in plaster. It’s a series of works that might have a certain thread of humour for some viewers while basically looking at the quite serious relationships that develop with the objects and tools people encounter as part of their daily lives. As Taylor Royds puts it, “This collection of works questions the understanding in the importance of familiar domestic objects and the consideration that perhaps it is only through a personal connection that we find true value in the ordinary.” An excellent show to visit over the weekend !
At CCAS Manuka until 22 July.
ANCA - PIN 8 is on again! Always a fun exhibition of wearable art ! Showing in July at ANCA in Dickson ,Canberra.
Arteles Residency ,2018, Finland.
What a wonderful experience! Sunlight for around 22 hours a day - amazing but exhausting! Long walks ,long talks and long creative sessions ,playing and experimenting! Made all the more fun with a friendly, generous, fun-loving bunch of artists from all disciplines and all around the world!
Fabulous and very helpful for my artist practice.
Highly recommend.
https://oivaseutu.fi/luonto-ja-hiljaisuus-inspiroivat-taiteilijoita-haukijarvella/
Goulburn Regional Art Awards 2018
https://www.goulburnpost.com.au/story/5355948/goulburn-art-awards-2018-photos/#slide=8
Exhibitions 2017
ANU School of Art and Design Graduation Exhibition 2017
The ANU School of Art & Design is proud to invite you to our 2017 Graduating Exhibition.
The achievements of our graduating students are exhibited across the entire school. The exhibition showcases the work of students completing awards in undergraduate programs, Bachelor degrees with Honours, Graduate Certificate of Arts and Masters programs by coursework.
The culmination of years of study in art practice, as well as art history and art theory, the Graduating Exhibition represents the successful resolution of thought processes, skills and making, working in and across disciplines.
I have finally completed my Honours year so come along and celebrate my achievements and those of my classmates!
Yass, New South Wales , I was lucky enough to be announced the winner of the Yass Soldiers Club Encouragement Award at the opening of Sculpture in the Paddock last Friday for my work - Rhythms of my Heart! Congratulations to the other winners and to all those that entered!
This Sculpture exhibition continues at the National Trust listed Cooma Cottage situated on the fringe of Yass township until Sunday 8th of October.
https://www.sculptureinthepaddock.com.au/events/4076c134-14ae-438d-8c84-b176538bf267
September 2017
M16 is located in 21 Blaxland Crescent, Griffith, Canberra ACT 2603.
I have a quirky mixed media work to be exhibited in this great little gallery situated at the front of M16 gallery. My work Mince my Words can be seen from the 28th September until the 15th of October.
Opening night will be on Thursday 28th September at 6 pm - along with the main galleries at M16!
http://www.m16artspace.com.au/
The Inner North Prize -Finalist , This exhibition is on at the wonderful cafe and gallery ,The Front, in Lyneham, Canberra until the 29th of October. A superb variety of works.