October 2014.
The sculpture season begins.
Four installations in three weeks.
Lot 19 at Castlemaine (VIC), My spiritual sculpture home as you can put up wild ideas and show them off. One year I put in three giant gorse rabbits and set fire to one on the opening afternoon, spectacular.
This year it was ‘Seat of Power’
Next in line was relocating ‘Crescendo’ from Montalto vineyard to Heide gallery where it will reside until March 2015 then on to a four month commission for the Moonee Valley Council. The Marquette for this work is on display and for sale at SxS Bondi right now. 
On to Yering Station sculpture prize. This one is titled ‘Stand up,Sit down.(aka The Democratic Process)
Now onto Sculpture by the Sea at Bondi, NSW.
My first foray interstate as moving large scale sculpture is a hell of a thing.
Preparation of the work and loading a hard to get one way hire trailer went ok.
I swapped my Dragonmobile for the road trip with Mick and Margie’s newer 4WD (Taradale wine and Produce)
They are extraordinarily generous with everything, If you are ever passing through Taradale, call in and sample good wine and great hospitality.
The road trip went quite well, apart from very nearly running out of fuel on the road to Benalla. Some of the highlights were being held up at Glenrowan
And a dog on a mysterious box just out of Gundagai.
Beachhead at Bowral, the night before the last hundred K’s to Bondi.
The installation took a good seven hours, hurry up and wait being the order of the day.
The layout.
And upski just before dark
A mad evening dash across town to Manly Vale with Suzanne navigating (brilliantly) and me careering down the goat tracks to drop the humongous trailer off with ten minutes to spare…
The next morning, a couple of sunny hours doing the little things and we’re done!
The show starts tomorrow, see you on the trail.
