2025 Exhibitions
Summer Stone Exhibition
8 December - 8 January
A group exhibition featuring figurative and abstract works carved in marble, alabaster, and soapstone, created by students from recent TBSSS Stone Carving Workshops.
Exhibition featured: Anthony Mitchell, Byron Comninos, Gareth Jones, Helen Alajajian, Illiana Jones, Judy Selby, Jutka Freiman, Letitia Tunmore, Lucas Blacker, Margaret Fitzgerald, Mariana Martin, Martin Williams, Mehrnoosh Nik Tavakoli, Merridth Zagami, Rhonda Cooper, Salwa Bachir, Tina Koutsoullis.
Images coming soon.
Liselle Mei: Between Worlds
1 - 30 November
BIO
Liselle Mei is a visual artist, writer and filmmaker. Her award winning short films and documentaries have screened internationally at festivals, cinemas, on television and museums including the Powerhouse and Museum of Modern Art (MOMA). Her artistic practice encompasses stone carving, clay sculpture and photography, often seeking the quiet beauty in the ordinary. Drawn to imperfection and the unexpected, Liselle specializes in the lith process, hand printing photographs in the dark room to enhance painterly textures, mystery and grain. Her online gallery, Lumei Prints, showcases the art and magic of lith printing.
STATEMENT
BETWEEN WORLDS weaves together a selection of lith photography and sculpture, connecting the human form with the poetry of nature and light. Drawn to the ephemeral and the eternal, my work seeks to capture both the fleeting and the enduring - a passing moment caught in my camera, a face carved to outlast us. For me, impermanence and the transience of life bring a fragile beauty to everything. My work is an attempt to touch on this. BETWEEN WORDS invites the viewer into a space where human presence and the natural world entwine, in tranquil union with each other.
Images coming soon.
Director’s Choice Exhibition 2025
27 September - 24 October
The Director’s Choice Exhibition features sculptures that were selected from the 2025 Annual Studio Exhibition by TBSSS Treasurer Dr Margo Hoekstra and TBSSS Board Member Gabrielle Allam.
The exhibition features TBSSS students: Judy Bunt, Brad Deane, Margaret Fitzgerald, Marianne Halmos, Laurel Hixon, Corinna Kovner, Virginia Lloyd-Tait, Alex McGlade, Emmanuel Pertsoulis, Elizabeth Scott, Letitia Tunmore, Pina Viney, Merridth Zagami.
The winners of the 2025 Prizes were: Director's Choice Prize: Brad Deane, Highly Commended: Virginia Lloyd-Tait, People’s Choice: Emmanuel Pertsoulis.
More images coming soon.
Jenny Pollak: Skin
26 July - 15 September 2025
Life Studying in Sculpture
17 February - 14 March 2025
“This exhibition aims to celebrate the work of our students and teachers developed during TBSSS workshops on life studying.
Sculpting from life is a challenging and rewarding practice where we develop observation’s skills and we expand our knowledge around anatomy and nature, but it is also an act of empathy where we try to feel the weight, posture and energy in the body, a close connection between the artist and the model. The final sculpture is a celebration of this intimacy”. —Elena Murgia, Clara Street Gallery Curator
Exhibition features: Peter Bartlett, Dinah Davis, Virginia Lloyd-Tait, Liselle Mei, Arielle Morris, Tatjana Seizova-Cajic, Monika Scarrabelotti, Letitia Tunmore, Martin Williams and Merridth Zagami.
Images coming soon.
Human Expression in Marble
10 December 2024 - 9 February 2025
Exhibition curated by Elena Murgia, featuring works made by students and Usama Alnassar himself during his Intensive Marble Carving Workshops.
This exhibition aims to celebrate the work of students and guest marble carving teacher Usama Alnassar. The theme is timeless, the human expression trapped in a stone or released from it.
From figurative works to some degree of abstraction in a couple of small-scale torsos, these sculptures capture the eloquence of representation. The exhibition showcases the carving process from refined to unfinished pieces, inviting the viewer to both look at the intermediate phases where possible alternatives can be considered, and to simply engage with the beauty of the medium itself as the figure emerges from its roughness.
Elena Murgia, Clara Street Gallery Curator
Exhibition featured: Usama Alnassar, Helen Alajajian, Wendy Black, Jennifer Do, Simon Gandevia, Amanda Harrison, Tina Koutsoullis, Virginia Lloyd-Tait, Liselle Mei, Anthony Mitchell, Brendan Toole, Letitia Tunmore, Bridget Whitehead, Martin Williams, Merridth Zagami. Not all work pictured.
