2025 Sculptures

Alice RG

Play Warriors

Cement & paint on rod

2025 Winner

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Play Warriors calls on our wild instinct and confronts us with the wisdom of children. Here they are. Each scratch and scar evolving evidence of adventure and freedom. White, hope bearing breast-plates flourish, bloom and bud.

Mahalia White-McColl

Still Standing

Ceramic, recycled steel and ash glaze

2025 Kingborough Council Acquisition 

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This sculpture invites you to question your perception of humanity... What do you see? Why are we still cutting the ancient trees? Are we so separate from the organisms we are destroying? Made from ceramic and recycled steel, she sits atop an old sawmill cog. Glazes include hardwood ash from local Tasmanian fires.

Alice RG

Rock & Feather

Paperclay in box

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In this work handmade petals and pearls curl and curve around a feather, sculpted in paperclay over the imprint of a coastal rock.

Anita Denholm

Gazing –Our Ghost in Nature

Galvanised wire, Chicken/bird/rodent mesh- reused

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This oversized face in the landscape is made with reclaimed, repurposed materials which have previously contained, supported, and protected.

We should be protecting and supporting the natural world – instead we are containing and manipulating it to conform to our own agendas.

Eventually, grasses will grow through and reclaim...

Claire Pendrigh

The Balance

Copper wire, wooden pegs, found materials

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The Balance is a hanging mobile. You are invited to contribute to it. Leaves, twigs, feathers – anything small and light that you find on your walk through the art farm can be attached using the pegs. But just like an ecosystem, any change you make will affect the balance.

Claire Pendrigh

The Balance

Copper wire, wooden pegs, found materials

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The Balance is a hanging mobile. You are invited to contribute to it. Leaves, twigs, feathers – anything small and light that you find on your walk through the art farm can be attached using the pegs. But just like an ecosystem, any change you make will affect the balance.

Dan Tucker

Handmaidens of the Apocalypse

Stone / steel/ stainless steel

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Handmaidens of the Apocalypse is another name for nuclear submarines. This sculpture confronts AUKUS and nuclear militarism. With costs exceeding $368 billion, it not only exposes the ecological harm but the staggering financial burden. This anti-nuclear work warns of radioactive ambition and the impacts on peace, sovereignty, and cultural survival.

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Dean Sullivan

"A glimpse" Lyrebird / Kunanyi

Various metals

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He was cheeky… it was eye to eye… the experience was exhilarating.

Dean Sullivan

Bridgewater Swan

Rubber and metal

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The front yard feature of many a good home… the humble car tyre swan.

Duncan Rush

Don’t bet against nature

Stone, steel, stainless steel

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No matter how much damage we do to nature, the earth will survive.

She has been here for billions of years, and will be here for billions more.

We are just making it harder for future generations to cope with extreme weather.

Making where you are born the biggest roll of the dice.

Esther Lynch

Grove of Oddities

Ferrocement and plants

$635 per component. Not all for sale.

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This grove represents phenomena I have observed in Tasmanian trees, including a tree hollow on Five Bob Farm, and celebrates the beauty of the strangeness in the natural world. It brings to light the value in imperfection and the intricacy creation where no two individuals are the same.

Evie Silver

Safe Harbour

Clay, Stainless Steel, Corten Steel

$11,000

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Every year, humpback whales migrate north from Antarctica to give birth in warmer waters — sometimes as far south as Tasmania. Once hunted to near extinction, they now inspire joy as we watch the horizon. Depicting a mother and baby whale, Safe Harbour invites reflection on the idea of sanctuary — both emotional and environmental.

Hazel Jennings

Bush sprite

Handbilding clay, underglaze and earthenware glaze

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Her feet are roots planted firmly in the soil. Her hair is an umbilical binding her to the earth. She is a small goddess, poised in quiet defiance — her skin raw burned beneath the white Tasmanian sun. She sits, not to excite, but to subvert, reclaiming the gaze that once tried to contain her.

Hazel Jennings

Teensy Township

Handbilding clay, underglaze and earthenware glaze

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Deep in the bush, where the pixies play, a tiny township is hidden away. It belongs to the undergrowth, swallowed by the foliage, home to small creatures of all colours and sizes.

Ian Johnston

Spinner

Timber, brass plate

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A wind-driven timber sculpture. The inside is a Huon pine steam bent spiral with a series of attached copper cones that catches the wind and spins clockwise. The outer sphere on a separate swivel has brass cones attached that spins counter-clockwise in the wind. The result is an ever-changing flexible structure that dances in the wind.

Janine Combes

Put yourself in the climate change puzzle

Marine plywood, paint, varnish

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This artwork is part of a series of wearable and sculptural artworks developed to facilitate conversations about climate change and hope. This version of the tourist ‘face board’ beckons the viewer to put themselves in the conversation about climate change, to step up and be in the picture.

Joey Gracia

Picnic Table (Benchmarking)

Readymade Objects

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This work invites visitors to sit and leave their mark on the table itself. A date, a name, initials, lyrics or a band logo. Usually something a bit naughty to do, the artist grants you permission to scratch, etch and add to this artwork, guilt free.

Joseph Silver

Linear Body 1

Clay, Glass, Stainless Steel, Corten Steel

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This represents and intertwines two opposing materials: steel and clay. Linear Body 1 embodies the chaos and unpredictability of raku-firing alongside the wonderful stability and dependability of steel sculpture. The Raku-fired disk uses horsehair to achieve the carbon trailing effect, and the disk is supported by a stainless steel frame in turn placed on a Corten steel plinth.

Katie Barron

A Little Bit Dry

Concrete, plaster, glass marbles

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I'm a little cake obsessed. I've been baking cakes and painting their likeness for a few years, and now I'm interested in something with a bit more body. I love using household items and materials that can be transformed into familiar, yet unexpected forms.

Nick Proud

Let there be

Recycled materials

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2025 People's Choice Award winner

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This work brings together a few ideas that really resonate with me. Firstly, the notion that beauty can be found in everyday objects. It also touches on the idea that the climate crisis could, at least in part, be addressed by reusing and recycling manufactured materials, and by turning to renewable energy sources like wind and solar. I’m also fascinated by the movement and refraction and reflection of light.

Paul Young

Recovery

Sandblasted Steel

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With Recovery, Young entangles a trio of care, rupture, and reassembly. Cast in sandblasted steel the work captures moments of transformation. Inspired by a friend who suffered domestic violence trauma, Recovery resists binaries — capturing the emotional episodes that occur during the escape and survival processes.

Paul Young

Seraphim

Bronze

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Seraphim is a meditation on vulnerability and containment in the digital age. Cast in bronze, the figure dances in quiet introspection, encircled by a looping metallic ribbon. The gesture of the hand, poised behind the head, suggests both tension and grace, capturing a moment of soft surrender and violent struggle.

Piers Allbrook

Water now stone

Marble

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Homo sapiens (to avoid any argument) is a species that is gregarious. When we separate ourselves from others and call ourselves strong it is a denial of our nature; we doom ourselves to thinking we are strong as a rock, but we become weak and selfish. It is only by joining with others, in mutual empathy as water, that we wear away the stubborn and intractable that could be the rock within us.

Praise Ieong Kwan Hei

Before Sunrise – The Freedom of Where I Belong

Stoneware Ceramics with Black Underglaze, Blackened Copper

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This work features handmade bird-shaped ceramic brooches inspired by the artist’s time at Bundanon during a UNSW fieldwork course. Honouring Elders, people, and land, the experience eased her homesickness and deepened her connection to place, identity, and healing.

Seth Isham

Yearning

Recycled Timber

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In a world where autocrats roar, where the poor and vulnerable starve, and the environment is tormented with human indifference, it is easy to lose hope and to sink into sadness. But in all the noise and fear we can look out beyond the chaos and sadness and find hope. Beyond all this there is hope.

Simon Ward

Diving Deep

Steel

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How lucky are Australians to have platypus and echidnas? The aquatic lifestyle of platypus makes them mysterious to most of us, so I'm always happy when I get a glimpse of one, especially when it is diving under water. I wanted to catch the movement and grace of a diving platypus, and thought steel was the best way to do it.

Stephen Bond

Corporate Loophole #24

Riveted aluminium sheet over plywood

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2025 Five Bob Farm & Art Farm Birchs Bay Acquisition

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I’d like to say that there have been many corporate loopholes in my career.

This was the 24th and it has great outcomes.

But hey, I’m on the other side now and really don’t have any further need of it...so... without any strings attached I'd really like to suggest that you buy it.

Stephen Bond

Salmon Loophole

Riveted aluminium sheet over plywood

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“Salmon Loophole” is a proven model used in previous Tasmanian reviews. Risk analysis points to distress if it is again employed.