Seeing Around Corners
Sculpture Workshop in Hebel Stone
with Adriaan Vanderlugt
The Workshop
Workshop Approach:
Familiarisation with medium
Demonstration of tools and their usage
Design approach
Design application
Carving
Finishing
Process:
Your reference photos and drawings will be used and transferred to the Hebel Stone, but form will be simplified to suit the tools and with respect to the material. You will end up with a stylised figurative form. Open to adults with or without carving experience.
HEBEL Stone is also known as aerated concrete. It is available in blocks 60 x 20 x 20 cm and 60 x 20 x 30 cm. To carve Hebel stone, we can use wood working tools (they can be cleaned and resharpened afterwards).
The Tutor
Adriaan Vanderlugt was born in the Netherlands, grew up in Canada and now lives in the beautiful Whitsundays. He has a working background in Graphic Design and has been carving stone, marble and wood for over 40 years. His slightly abstracted sculptures of animals, birds and fish are held in collections around the world.
In the year of Centenary of Federation in 2001, he created a number of public sculptures for communities in the Mackay/Whitsunday Region and in 2009, his entry in the SWELL Sculpture Festival at Currumbin, Qld was acquired by the Gold Coast City Council to be installed at Coolangatta.
Adriaan enjoys making furniture, while respecting and maintaining the naturalness of the raw materials. In 1997 he was commissioned to design and make the furniture for the new chapel on Hayman Island Resort. He also teaches workshops in drawing, painting and sculpture for both children and adults.
As an Art Consultant, Adriaan was helpful in revitalising the Streetscape of Proserpine, was involved in creating the ‘Green Room” at the Proserpine Hospital and has written a weekly Art Column in the Whitsunday Coast Guardian for which in 2005, he received an ‘Arts-is-in Award’ in recognition of his media coverage of the arts.
In 2003 Adriaan was honoured with a Centenary Medal ‘for distinguished service to the arts’.