Alchymia Ltd
1307 Oruru Rd
New Zealand
ph: USA 408 3164395
Work Shop Dates for Brent Sumner
California 2009
May 9-10 Wood fired oven building workshop at Mendocino Art Center Mendocino www.mendocinoartcenter.org
May 16-17 Community Built instillation at Navato High School
June 19-21 Garden sculpture workshop at IMA Oakland www.instituteofmosaicart.com
June 13th- 14th Garden sculpture workshop at Santa Cruz sculptureparty@yahoo.com
July 11th-12thGarden sculpture workshop at Santa Cruz sculptureparty@yahoo.com
July 24-26 Garden sculpture workshop at IMA Oakland www.instituteofmosaicart.com
August 12-14 Garden sculpture workshop at Mendocino Art Center www.mendocinoartcenter.org
at IMA oakland www.instituteofmosaicart.com
September 12th-13th Garden sculpture workshop at Santa Cruz sculptureparty@yahoo.com
New Zealand 2010
January 10th-17th 7day sculpture workshop at Ucol Whanganui http://www.ucol.ac.nz
January 5 day Architectural sculpting workshop on Moturora Island studio building sculptureparty@yahoo.com
February Garden sculpture workshop at Origin Art Center Kerikeri sculptureparty@yahoo.com
March 2 day garden sculpture workshop in Auckland.sculptureparty@yahoo.com
Info about the Institute of Mosaic Art; visit.
We will be working outside but in the shade so make sure you have some work clothes, sunhats etc, just in case of weather changes! Morning and afternoon tea will be supplied but you will need to bring your own lunch.
Come with an idea or two, of what you want to create over the weekend, so Brent can give you suggestions, of how to put your sculpture together.
The workshop covers building a sculpture, starting from scratch by making a wire netting armature, or a recycled form, such as an old metal frame chairs, furniture or buckets. You will each create a sculpture to take home. There are endless possibilities of what you can make. To sculpt the final shape a plaster compound called Darjit! will be used. This is a plaster compound a bit like clay in texture but will stick almost to anything. It is a recycled plaster product-environmentally friendly, lightweight when dry and fantastic for large-scale work. The workshop starts with modeling small forms with darjit, to get the feel of it.
The Material takes about 4 days to dry completely. If you have to take your sculpture with you on the last day, bring a piece of plywood or similar, about 3ft square, to build your sculpture on so you can handle it when it is soft and heavier.
For more info on Darjit and photos of what people make at the workshops visit www.sculptureparty.com
To Bring List
1 Lunch
2 Gloves-Gardening gloves, tight fitting with a very smooth surface are best( atlas nitrol tough), or latex ones and leather for handleing mesh
3 Wire cutters, pliers, clay working tools
4 Old blanket, tarp,or piece of plywood to take your sculpture home, larger pieces can be left for a few days to fully cure and dry before moving
5 Warm clothing-sunscreen-hats
6 Marbles, mosaic pieces, stones, shells, metals, trinkets:
mixed media if you want to incorporate these into your sculpture.
7 Recycled form if required.

5 day architectural sculpting workshops cover:
The project we will be learning on is the entrance gateway, and water feature/ fountain built into a privacy wall
There are examples for these types of walls on the www.scupltureparty.com website on the Darjit page, and the steel gates page









Alchymia Ltd
1307 Oruru Rd
New Zealand
ph: USA 408 3164395