Juet Sculpture: April 2013

Sunday 28 April 2013

Open studio 2013

Thank you to all the people that came out and supported our open studio on the weekend. Your generous comments and enthusiasm for our work is so encouraging and appreciated.
Juet

Friday 26 April 2013

One Sleep to Go!

Burning the Midnight oil, crossing the T's and dotting the i's, in readiness for the first day of the 2013 Dandenong Ranges Open Studio. Looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow!

Tuesday 23 April 2013

Dandenong Ranges Open Studio Weekend

Sneek Peek

Looking forward to this Saturday and Sunday; The 10th annual Dandenong Ranges Open Studio. We've been steadily creating new pieces over the last few months in readiness for this weekends. here is a glimpse of what we have produced

Tuesday 9 April 2013

testing - testing -1-2-3

TENSION

For Open Studios this year we want people to be able to hear the poetry that goes with each sculpture. The idea is that as people go around to look at our work they can click on a an audio file on our blog and hear the accompanying poem. This post is to test the technical aspects of this. The poem is for our OS exhibition piece (now showing at Burrinja)

Friday 5 April 2013

Juet on holiday

With a little help from our friends

Our Story

In the beginning

Juet emerged in the summer of 2007/8 when our two families shared a lazy summer break in the Victorian high plains. We were both looking for something inspiring and exciting to do with our lives and so the juet philosophy was born.

Our philosophy

We believe in working creatively together.

We will use discarded objects and recylced materials

We will express ourselves honestly and openly.

We will share this with others.

The process

We work intuitively, choosing materials and objects with no set plan, trusting our eye. The work tends to emerge from the junk rather than the other way around. Once the idea is found we then become engineers and carpenters finding ways to put all the pieces together. No sculpture seems to use the same techniques and tools and we are constantly inventing new ways to shape and mould material into form. Sometimes the process alters our ideas in which case we just go with it so that the fun and spontaneity is maintained. We love it because it's unforced. Sculpting for us is never work.

When the construction is finished we stand back and see what the sculpture says to us and let it draw out feelings and thoughts that we carry. From these the poems are written, each composed solely for the sculpture but each drawn out from our own experiences. Sometimes this can takes minutes, sometimes days or weeks. But we have learnt to be patient, confident that eventually the words will come.

And finally

We love the thought of our sculptures sitting in your gardens and courtyards and that our ideas have touched you in some way. And by doing so, we have been able to share our lives, simple though they are, with you.

May our art be with you.