Welding Sculptures Workshop

This intensive course introduces students of all levels of experience to the practical, technical and creative requirements for making small-scale welded steel sculptures. Lisa Jones encourages you to concentrate on self-directed projects under her aesthetic and skills-based guidance. She introduces you to contemporary and modern artists whose practice explores the language of metal as a sculptural material and its relationship to line and form. The course will initiate students into the fundamentals of welding, cutting and bending skills to complete 1 or a series of welded steel sculptures. You will be inducted into the safe use of the principal equipment required to work with steel. Lisa Jones is an artist and educator. She has exhibited nationally and internationally in institutional spaces, artist-run-initiatives and commercial galleries. Her work is in the collection of Artbank and private collections in Australia and Britain. She has been a finalist in ABN AMRO Emerging Artist Award, Woollahra Small Sculpture and is a recipient of an Emerging Artist New Works Grant from the Australia Council for the Arts. She is a sessional lecturer at the National Art School in the drawing department and has taught metal sculpture classes in the Eveleigh workshop, Morley College, London, Brookvale TAFE and Artist in Residence Canterbury University, Christchurch. She holds an MFA from Sydney College of the Arts and an MVA from University of Newcastle upon Tyne UK.