Artist Statement:
A private space set aside for exclusive artistic activity of the highest order or, in another framework, a space that operates as a factory with meeting production quotas and completion deadlines.

A space that allows one to exercise control and experimentation all under the banner of research new outcomes, innovation and shifts in practice, all geared towards the new and extraordinary.

A place for selection, rearrangement and making choices across a range of materials, technical processes and methodologies in harnessing the best possible outcome.

A space to look and observe, contemplate, sit and consider or perhaps most importantly apply the blowtorch of criticism. Severely edit, start a new work, this one isn’t going anywhere, leave it and return to it tomorrow; a place for failure and success.

A building or room with many items, objects and things: tools, materials and equipment. Clusters, forming from by-products and more things: off-cuts, stencils, used sandpaper, adhesives, old paint containers, scrap materials, drawings and more things. Shall we keep or throw out?

A place for rearrangement, placement, lifting, carrying and cleaning. One is physically active moving about particularly in a sculpture studio.

Likewise, so is the condition of noise: cutting, grinding, hammering, gluing and sanding and ABC National playing in the background all make for an enriching environment and stimulating environment; never fixed always in flux.
Dan Wollmering