GRANT FINCK

Grant is a professional sculptor, highly skilled at form, design, aesthetic and matching a vision with a range of highly developed mediums – ceramics to resin, steel and bronze. 

Grant has artworks in numerous collections including permanent public artworks around the region.  Public artworks include the entrance of Deakin University in Geelong.

Since starting his professional career as a sculptor and ceramicist in the late 1970s, Grant has accumulated over 45 years full-time studio practice in the visual arts. In 1991 he successfully completed post-graduate sculpture studies at the Victorian College of the Arts. Starting in 1993, Grant coordinated and was a design participant in ‘creative Village’, a regionally based urban design program with the Victorian Arts Council. From 1996 he have completed a substantial number of public sculpture commissions and built an extensive exhibition history including The Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award, Sculpture By The Sea Sydney and the inaugural Lorne Sculpture exhibition. Grant also taught figure modelling and ceramics at Holmseglen TAFE college from 1994 to 2006.

The years spent as a ceramicist, mastering the precise discipline of clay and fire and developing a strong eye for form has honed substantial skills set. This foundation has given Grant the ability to undertake a diverse range of projects, utilizing a range of materials from ceramics to resin, steel and bronze. 

” In my search for dynamic balance, I draw on a conceptual foundation and intuition to create sculpture that reflects my interest in describing the phenomena of community, the interplay between the individual and the collective, intimacy and anonymity, and how each of these influences our relationship with the various environments in which we exist. ”  Grant Finck