Extra_info : 2007 SHOPFRONT AWNING POST WORKSHOP
Artists and technicians designed and carved more than thirty posts during a ten-day workshop in Walcha to replace the old awning posts of six shopfronts.
THE ARTIST: John Turier, Abstractionist, was born in Sydney in 1954. He graduated from the Hunter Institute of Higher Education, NSW, in 1968 with a Bachelor of Visual Arts, and then again from the University of Newcastle in 1989 with a Diploma in Painting. He completed a Master’s Degree in Fine Art at the University of Newcastle in 1990. He currently lives and works in Newcastle, NSW.