The 2014 Adelaide Hills Sculpture Symposium commencing today is a truly international affair.
Master sculptors from France, Bulgaria (2) , Turkey, New Zealand, Georgia, Finland and Australia will carve their dreams in stone when they create 8 unique sculptures (9 – 16) at a public event at The Cedars in Hahndorf. The sculptures have been commissioned for $30,000 each by townships in the Adelaide Hills and Fleurieu Peninsula.
The sculptors will chip, grind, chisel and polish for 20 days at The Cedars assisted by a team of 9 young South Australian sculptors who will work as interns. The interns will hone their skills under the guidance of some of the world’s best. The skills they learn will stay here in South Australia.
Visitors will come, and come again as they did to the 2012 Symposium and watch the works evolve. They will see some of the world’s best sculptors at work.
A selection of South Australian stone has been sourced by Artistic Director Silvio Apponyi and generously donated by South Australian quarries. Several of the pieces weigh over 10 tonnes and include red granite from Coober Pedy, marbles from Sellicks Hill, Paris Creek and Macclesfield and black granite from Black Hill.
Free school sculpture workshops are booked out and the workshops for the public in the last week of the Symposium are expected to be equally popular. Under of the guidance of a workshop supervisor students will have the opportunity to chip, chisel and polish their own piece of Mt Gambier limestone into a sculpture of their choice.
Café Symposium will be providing a delicious range of handmade goodies daily. Where else in the world could you sit in a marquee taking light refreshment in a glorious setting looking out over the Adelaide Hills while watching world class sculptors at work?
A shuttle bus service will run from the Hahndorf Academy to The Cedars every Saturday and Sunday and the 4 days of the Easter weekend.
Sculptures 1 – 8 from the first Symposium (2012) are now permanently installed as part of the world class Hills Sculpture Trail. After three events (2012 ,2104 and 2016) the 24 sculptures on the Trail will connect the region’s towns and people of the Adelaide Hills and Fleurieu Peninsula.
The continuing vision, support, collaboration and generosity of the people of the Hills for this event is amazing. The lasting legacy these works will leave will add significantly to the social, cultural and tourism infrastructure of their region.
AHISS is a not for profit community based organisation founded by a group of volunteers in 2011 to realise Silvio Apponyi’s ambition to ‘enrich the Hills with sculpture’.
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