Naigan Blosson, bronze, 550x500x200mm, $7500.
Reach, bronze, 1900x450x400mm.
Heleama.
Soriah, bronze, 300x300mm, $6000.
Rise, bronze, 1300x1300x900mm.
Nuckloo Babair, bronze, 500x280x280mm, $7500.
Two sides, bronze and iron, 1900x400x350mm, $16,000.
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Akaban (detail), bronze, 600x360x200mm, $7500.
Sculpture exhibition at Penola.
Portrait of Patrick White. Riders in the Chariot.
The Kiss.
Dance.
Dance of Life.
Anthropolite, bronze, 800x750x300mm, $18,000.
Shalemo, bronze, 550x400x200mm, $7,500.
John trained at Victoria College in Melbourne in the early 1980s obtaining a Bachelor of Arts (sculpture). In 1990 John spent 10 months in Europe. There he studied sculpture history and sculpture-making and worked in several European Art Foundries. Since his return John has been working exclusively on bronze and steel sculptures and small bronze figurative works. He owns and operates Mylor Sculpture which is one of only two bronze sculpture casting services in South Australia. There, for 20 years, he has been casting large public sculptures and smaller works as a service to other Adelaide artists.
John is a refreshingly open and pleasurably garrulous character. He lives in a tin shed – literally! It is a real artist’s garret next to his foundry in the Adelaide Hills. He lives alone, devoting himself entirely to his work and to a few treasured friends and family.
About his work John says: My main motivation for making art is communication. I believe that art expresses things that can’t be said in words; it’s a language that goes directly to the heart… I’d like to think that, in a thousand years time, someone might dig up one of my sculptures and still be able to understand its message because of what is ‘says’ about being human.
John’s self-expression through sculpture conveys the human touch of an artist for whom communication with other people is his most fervent raison d’être.