Snowy Valleys Sculpture Trail Expanding

THE Snowy Valleys Sculpture Trail has expanded with two new sculptures from respected Australian and international artists unveiled recently. The number of works in the permanent public collection that stretches from Adelong, Batlow, Tumbarumba and Tooma now stands at 30 from 10 countries around the world.

Tumbarumba’s Courabyra Wines now has its second sculpture, ‘The Family’ by Austrian artist Andreas Buisman which joins ‘Thinking Red’ by Haruyuki Uchida at the vineyard.

At Nest Cinema and Café, the interesting

‘Heads It Is’ sculpture by West Australian artist Paul Caporn resides on the café lawn and will certainly gain public interest at this popular café.

David Handley, Founding CEO and Artistic Director of Sculpture by the Sea and the Snowy Valleys Sculpture Trail, said, “With every new sculpture in the Snowy Valleys Sculpture Trail the collection changes and takes on di erent characteristics. Paul Caporn’s sculpture is the wonderfully comical, and the first absurdist artwork in the collection, while Andreas Buisman’s sculpture adds to the tactile and stunning stone sculptures from Adelong to Tooma.”

Sculptor Andreas Buisman splits his time between Austria and Australia, collecting basalt and granite rocks and transforming them into artworks. ‘The Family’ consists of three separate pieces that Buisman has polished, cleaned and transformed while respecting the given form of the basalt, and ultimately revealing their hidden identity.

Paul Caporn is based in Perth and is one of Australia’s most respected sculptors. ‘Heads It Is’ is described as an unmonumental monument, pointing to the idea that the way we memorialise and celebrate our great moments and people in recent history requires a rethink in current times. The sculpture was part of Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2022.

Both Andreas Buisman and Paul Caporn were in Tumbarumba to unveil their work.

Joining them at the unveiling was Hanne Bache, the President of the Friendship Society of Denmark, Australia and New

Zealand, which funded the first three sculptures installed in Tumbarumba as part of the Snowy Valleys Sculpture Trail as a gesture of international friendship in response to the Black Summer fires. A plaque commemorating Hanne’s visit was unveiled at the Tumbarumba creekscape.

The Snowy Valleys Sculpture Trail, which launched in May 2022, is a permanent and growing public collection by renowned artists from across Australia and the world. The next sculptures will be installed in April and May in Batlow, Adelong and Tumbarumba, taking the collection to over 35 sculptures.

Stretching over 100km in the Snowy Valleys region, the sculptures are showcased in collections across seven locations in the towns of Adelong, Batlow, Tumbarumba, the hamlet of Tooma and the Tumbarumba wine region cellar doors at Courabyra Wines, Johansen Wines and Obsession Wines.

The project was conceived in partnership with the local communities and the Sydney-based Sculpture by the Sea to aid in the socio-economic recovery of the Snowy Valleys after the 2019

- 2020 bushfires. The Snowy Valleys Sculpture Trail has been funded under the Bushfire Local Economic Recovery Fund, cofounded by the Australian and NSW governments.