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Talking Sculpture Making (TSM) is an exhibiting and discussion forum organised by three women abstract sculptors:
Gillian Brent, Alexandra Harley, and Sheila Vollmer.
Each artist works innovatively with material, form, mass, space, scale and colour. Each artist’s work is distinct in the use of abstract construction, yet there is a definite sense of a common visual language and collective experience, emerging from a female perspective.
TSM was formed in 2019 to share the experiences of the artists and to provide and generate support and shared networks. All the artists have been working and exhibiting nationally and internationally, since the 1980s.
Their exhibitions and public discussions showcase abstract sculpture and consider its importance and relevance today. They invite artists from their networks and beyond, across generations and locations to show with them, opening up dialogues about abstract practices. They are working to provide opportunities to have a broader dialogue with audiences, including artists, curators, students, art historians, academics and gallery visitors regarding the history and future generations of women working in this discipline.
There is still underrepresentation of women sculptors in the genre and TSM hope to redress this imbalance, augmenting their voices and providing a showcase for women’s practices.
‘Somewhere in the 1990s, the artist in her studio took a permanent backseat to the politics of assertion: the declarations of race, sexuality, and class. ‘Preciousness’ became a term used to denigrate abstraction. And yet the qualities it implied were arguably symptomatic of abstraction: a sensitivity to objects, and the disquieting intensity devoted to the process of making them.’
Jenni Sorkin, art historian, critic, Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History at the University of California, Santa Barbara.