31 October 2004

Well-known artist Pam Wragg will be in Shepparton this Wednesday to discuss her stunning new exhibition featuring eleven bronze sculptures, currently on display at the Shepparton Art Gallery.

Shepparton Art Gallery Director, Ms Leanne Willis said the exhibition, “New Bronzes” displays Pam’s lovely meditative works that, while small, are full of life and energy. 

“Pam makes her sculptures from ceramic and then creates the moulds herself before taking them to the foundry to be cast.  There are not a lot of artists working in bronze these days due to the prohibitive cost so this exhibition is an opportunity to see an unusual artistic medium,” Ms Willis said.

The bronzes on display in the exhibition can be divided into two groups. The first group is a series of self contained pieces whose dynamic configuration of form creates a series of complex relationships.  The second group contains simple upright forms that appear to confront one another.

“Pam Wragg has described the atmosphere of the second group of pieces as quiet place, an inner space, enclosed yet open”.

“The bronze creates hard straight and curved edges for the forms expressing monumentality suggestive of scale far greater than their present state.”

The exhibition will run in the Crawford Stewart Gallery until 21st November 2004 and Pam will discuss the pieces at the Friends of the Shepparton Art Gallery Society coffee morning on Wednesday 3rd November from 10.00 am.

For more information, please contact Leanne Willis on 5832 9861.

Admission to Shepparton Art Gallery is free and it is open seven days a week from 10.00 am to 4.00 pm. The gallery is located in the Eastbank Centre,
70 Welsford Street, Shepparton, phone 5832 9861.