‘Quantum Exuberance’ Cast Bronze – 4.2 metres high – approx. 2 tonnes.

This sculpture has taken me 14 years to complete. It was a personal project in order to pay tribute to our insatiable inquisitiveness, especially in science. The work is symbolic of energy slowing down to gain mass, to become waves and particles, the building blocks of existence, including our own.

The sculpture has taken an extensive amount of time because of the cost of casting bronze, which I was funding from my own pocket. When I completed a commission, if there were excess funds, I would cast one or two new sections. Year after year I would cast a new segment or maybe two. Small segments that I would weld together, and continued to cast and weld until it was completed in 2021. So very much a labour of love. I have named it ‘Quantum Exuberance’.

‘Galambany’ – in the local indigenous language means ‘We Including You’.
Each of the four figures represent a presence of silence.
The base which comprises of three concentric forms, is a symbolic labyrinth. A place that will guide you to the sacred text and artwork, which lay at the centre of the sculpture.
There is also a Tibetan Bell which you trigger on entering the labyrinth, signifying that you have just entered a place of contemplation and quiet.
The indigenous design which sits at the very heart of the labyrinth, was gifted by Shane Mankitya Cook and represents the country on which the sculpture currently sits.
The sculpture was particularly difficult to create. For the frameworks that outline the four figures, are all compound curved box sections, made from flat steel plate. Also, the tubes had to be rolled into compound curves that ran parallel to one another.
The work stands over 6 metres high x 5 metres wide and took around 8 months to complete.
The work, commission by Canberra Grammar, was made possible because of a substantial donation to the school, by Dr Naren Chellappah.

The sculpture entitled ‘Moruya’, (Place of Black Swan) which stands 3.5 metres high and is made from stainless Steel. Given Moruya sits near the ocean, the work symbolises the power and movement of the sea. Also, as one walks around the sculpture, one can observe an impression of a swan, which becomes quite distinctive within both front and back aspects of the work. This particular artwork was exceedingly difficult to make. For all 28 individual segments are handmade box sections with compound curves.
The sculpture is sited at the front of the Eurobodalla Regional Gallery.

I created the glass prisms from solid flat plates of Italian drawn glass, 32 mm thick, and the base form 430 pieces of granite.
It stands 4 metres high, weighs over 3.5 tonnes and was the very first sculpture I ever made.

It was installed in 1988 at the centre of Neeta Cities shopping complex in Fairfield, but around 5 or 6 years later, after Neeta Constructions were declared bankrupt, it was bought by an Italian family in the early nineties, and I have no idea where it currently resides.

I have just installed this new work in the Blue Mountains – in the garden of a private collector. I have called the work – ‘Trinity’.

The sculpture is approximately 2 metres high x 2.6 metres wide and is made from Corten Steel.

This sculpture ‘Duraya Dhuduga Barra Barra’ (River Touching Sea) is a 6-metre-high sculpture made from stainless steel and purchased by Eurobodalla Council. It is sited in front of the Eurobodalla Council Chambers.

The stone work is 2.3 metre high and weighs around 5 tonnes.

It has programmable LED’s.

The work is a play on the fact that reality, and indeed, we human beings are mainly made up of space, in fact, over 99% space.

Stands 5.8 metres high made from 316 stainless steel with a granite base.

‘Spherical Intensity Unleashed’ – 5.8 Metres high – Stainless Steel.

This new work is 2.3 metres high and made from Corten Steel with a cold cast bronze surface finish. It was a challenging exercise endeavouring to arrive at an asymmetric form that is well balanced, given each section is a different height, width and depth.                                                               

‘INTERCONNECTION’
We are all, each one, unique; with differing points of view, and differing in size, gender and culture; and yet; utterly interconnected.

This new work is from a cast stainless steel piece I had laying around in the studio for about 10 years.

I have polished it up and planted it into a lovely piece of Ironbark. The Ironbark was cut from a huge timber beam, taken from the Pyrmont Bridge during restoration, about 23 years ago. The work stands around 1.5 metres high, including the plinth, and is cast from 316 stainless steel.

I designed these about 10 years ago as part of a stainless steel quartet.

However, I thought they might came up well in a different metal, so have cast them again, in bronze,  just recently.

The theme of these works has emerge from the ocean’s abundance.

Sea creatures, shells, drift wood, etc

Winner – McClelland Survey People’s Choice Award
Renowned Australian artist/sculptor Terrance Plowright has won the 2013 McClelland Survey People’s Choice Award.
The McClelland Survey is one of the most prestigious sculptural exhibitions in Australia. Director of the McClelland Gallery Robert Lindsay stated; “The Plowright work was a clear winner and exceptionally popular”. A discussion on Terrance’s sculpture was broadcast by Radio National where excerpts from his soundscape were played. “The work surprises you as you walk through the forest gallery, with an enormous explosion of pipes; then Tibetan bells gently ring out followed by a cello. The soundscape is interactive, so those walking around the sculpture will trigger other bells and cello phrases and harmonics
by their presence”.
The 4.5 metre high sculpture was created from a varied range of stainless steel tubes. Mr Plowright said he was inspired by the magnificent Pipe Organs of Europe and the simple but elegant
Egyptian Pan Flute. Within the sculpture are 3 five inch speakers and 1 three inch speaker placed strategically within the top pipe. Within four other tubes reside 3 ultrasonic sensors and 1 infrared sensor. The soundscape was created using a Nepalese Singing Bowl, small bells, a cymbal and cello. The singing bowl acts as a bell and the cello plays a base melody, with interwoven cello phrasing and harmonics appearing throughout the work. When a hand passes over one of the ultrasonic sensors other instrumental sounds become interwoven within the soundscape.

This sculpture is the structural framework from ‘Dancing Light’, minus the 7 plexiglass sleeves that were full of coloured fluid and programmed pneumatic air.

‘Dances Through Space’ – Stainless Steel – 4.5 Metres Wide.

Artist Statement:  This work was completed in 1991. Over the years, this work had completely slipped my mind, however, while going through a box of old photographs recently, I was surprised and delighted on discovering the image, like chancing upon an old friend. Hence I decided to place it on the site, even though the work was completed some 27 years ago.
My memory is rather vague re the theme, however, I do recall paying particular attention to the inclusion of all nations, all cultures, all peoples having one common ancestry, the profound and sacred spirit of the Universe, hence, go in peace.

Terrance Plowright

A Tribute to the Works of St. Thomas Aquinas – Artist Statement by Terrance Plowright
This work is a homage to the thinking and influence of St. Thomas Aquinas, his writing, and especially his dedication to the works of Aristotle which influenced the church and indeed western philosophy for many centuries.  His huge body of work is symbolised by many books which are aloft and floating down throughout history, alluding to this influence.  I have paid a special tribute to his treatise on the relationship of the rational mind, faith and mysticism which even today is a comfort to many within orthodoxy.  The background to the figure is orderly, representing the rational mind, and to the far left we have a beautifully vibrant cross, representing Christian faith, however, both are falling away and into an abyss, where we enter the world of mysticism.

Terrance Plowright