Just sitting

Paul Selwood has a long career as an exhibiting sculptor and teacher, having first studied sculpture at the National Art School in Sydney in 1964-65. The following year he went to Greece to carve marble in the quarries on the island of Paros, famous since Antiquity for its pure white marble. He then went to London and became a technical assistant at the sculpture school of the Royal College of Art, and undertook lecturing at the Bath Academy of Art. He returned to Sydney in 1971 and lectured widely in New South Wales and Queensland while also exhibiting. He has worked as a full-time sculptor since 1996.

In 'Just sitting' a series of welded flat pieces of steel of different heights are juxtaposed with an elegantly curved strand of steel which appears to have separated itself from its sheet to loop around and join the plane behind. This sense of movement and mix of shapes is typical of Selwood’s steel sculptures.