Autumn's cusp

Paul Selwood has a long career as an exhibiting sculptor and teacher, having first studied sculpture at the National Art School in Sydney, graduating in 1965. 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.

Much of Selwood’s work focuses on the relationship between form and space. In 'Autumn's cusp' a series of planes are curled and joined together to create a sense of circularity and movement. Designed to be viewed ‘in the round’, or from all angles, Selwood has described this as being unique to the medium of sculpture. He said: “It is more complicated to balance the relationships of parts and ‘shape the spaces’ in a complex work but the very crux of the matter is to find continuous clear correspondence of form from all views.”