September 11th, 2024Up, close & personal
The Local journalist Tony Sawrey is one of the artists taking part in the SWELL Sculpture Festival being held at Currumbin Beach, Queensland, until September 15.
Tony’s piece is titled Personal Space Elevator with its description: “10 tonnes of atmosphere press on you. Enter your personal space elevator. Tsiolkovsky’s star ladder made manifest.
“Forget Newtonian physics; this column gives you flight via pure thought, pure imagination. Face into the sky, find the rips in the fabric, launch, accelerate, dodge the veil of space junk around this world, and cast your imagination into the cosmos.
“The earth evaporates beneath your feet. All that is solid melts into air. Faster than the speed of light, faster than time, faster than reality. What awaits you in the infinite beyond?”
Tony, who lives in Musk, completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Sydney College of the Arts and a Masters of Fine Art at Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne.
His major studies were in studio painting but in time he began to create large scale environment art utilising marking fluids and a motorised spray pump.
He has produced commissions for numerous exhibitions and clients including Sculpture by the Sea Bondi and Cottesloe, Lorne Sculpture Bienniale and Sculpture in the Vineyards Wollombi.
