It’s been a busy week for Bathurst artists Stephen and Margaret Hogan.
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Mr Hogan is making his debut at Sculpture by the Sea in Bondi, while Ms Hogan reached the finals of the NSW Parliament Plein Air Painting Prize and the Kedumba Drawing Award.
“We’ve been working towards this for some years now and it’s lovely that they’ve fallen in the same week,” Mr Hogan said.
He installed his sculpture “Byobu” (Japanese screen art) on Wednesday morning at Tamarama Point and a smaller work, “Vanishing Cultures”, will be displayed in the Sculpture Inside Pavilion.
Mr Hogan has been sculpting most of his life, but took it up full time five years ago and has since been featured in numerous exhibitions, including Sculpture at Sawmillers, Sculpture Bermagui, and Sculptures in the Gardens.
“I’ve had the pleasure of helping Oberon artist Harrie Fasher install at Bondi for the past four years and I’ve always dreamed that one day I would have the opportunity to show my own work, so it’s very exciting to be included,” he said.
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Ms Hogan’s plein air work “The Sound of People Jumping into Water” was painted on the Fish River at O’Connell.
It wasn’t successful when the winner of the NSW Parliament Plein Air Painting Prize was announced on Wednesday night in Sydney, but Ms Hogan was pleased to have been a finalist.
The Kedumba Drawing Award, meanwhile, is regarded as one of the premier drawing awards in Australia.
Twenty artists from around Australia are invited to take part each year and works selected by the judge become part of the permanent Kedumba collection.
“Painting has always been a part of my life, but over the past few years I’ve been working towards making it a full-time occupation, travelling back and forth to the National Art School and doing workshops here and interstate,” Ms Hogan said.
Sculpture by the Sea will run until Sunday, November 4. The Kedumba Drawing Award runs from October 20 to December 2 at Orange Regional Gallery.
Both exhibitions are free to the public.
