2024 is our 50th anniversary as a Sculpture Studio School! We warmly invite you to celebrate this historic milestone on Saturday 6 July, from 3 – 6pm for the opening of a special exhibition and celebratory event.

There are lots of opportunities in the next few months to submit your sculptures for Prizes all over NSW. Good luck!

There are some fantastic exhibitions happening over the summer and we’ve picked a few highlights…

TBSSS is excited to be able to throw open the doors to once again to welcome students, friends and supporters into the studio for the 2022 Annual Studio Exhibition.

Tom Bass Sculpture Studio School (TBSSS) is now taking applications for the TBSSS and Creative City of Sydney Youth and Accessibility Scholarships. Applications close Friday 2 Sep.

Entries are now open for the 2022 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Australia's pre-eminent award for small sculpture.

The Tate Britain owns over 600 sculptures by renowned avant-garde sculptor Henry Moore! There are currently two large rooms dedicated to displaying some of the famous sculptures in the collection.

The North Sydney Art Prize is a major biennial arts event showcasing some of the best in contemporary art from across Australia. This year’s exhibition features over 110 artworks to be displayed across the grounds of the historic Coal Loader site.

Entries now open for Sculpture in the Vineyards - New South Wales’ longest running regional sculpture festival in New South Wales.

The oldest of the museums in Oxford, and in fact, England’s first public museum (and first university museum), the Ashmolean was founded in 1683 as a museum of art and archaeology. Like many museums in the United Kingdom, you could spend days and days in the museum and still not have explored it all – the museum is simply massive!

On Thursday 10 March at Juniper Hall Paddington, the 2022 winners of the Tom Bass Prize for Figurative Sculpture were announced by Sydney Contemporary Director Barry Keldoulis…

Find out about some upcoming prize deadlines for sculptors.

Sydney Contemporary provides collectors, industry professionals and the art loving public access to cutting-edge art from some of the world’s most respected artists and galleries as well as the opportunity to discover new, emerging talent.

Sydney’s newest public art gallery, Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf opened its doors to the public for the first time in early November. The Gallery launched its artistic program with the Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize’s 20th anniversary exhibition.

Entries for the 67th Blake Prize close on Monday 15 November! The judges will choose the best contemporary artworks that address ideas to do with religion, spirituality and/or belief.

“The sculptures include abstract, figurative, representational and hyper-realistic works using a wide variety of materials such as steel, wood, stone, bronze, fibreglass and woven fibres…”

The Tom Bass Prize for Figurative sculpture was initiated to mark the 100th Birthday of Tom Bass AM (1916 – 2010), and is an acknowledgement of the influence Bass has had as one of Australia’s pre-eminent sculptors and educators.

“At the beginning of 2020 I started to develop a new body of work considering eco-anxiety. However, emerging from a smoke-choked, apocalyptic summer and tumbling straight into the unpredictability of the global pandemic, what evolved was The State of Things: an amalgamation of the chaos that 2020 had to offer…”

“This exhibition by Japanese artists features works mainly in granite and steel. The works call to mind the tranquillity of drystone gardens so much loved in Japan…”

The Western Sydney University Sculpture Award and Exhibition consistently attracts significant talent from across Australia and overseas. This year, there are 20 Finalists on show across the WSU Campbelltown Campus.