JEANETTE KROHN  -  “STUDIO SPHINX IN A TUTU” Jeanette had the great, good fortune to have been born at North Head by Sydney Harbour and raised on the edge of the ancient ‘bush’ of the Hawkesbury Sandstone Region, where the family home looked back toward the Norfolk Pines of Manly Beach. Such a nature wilderness wonderland playground, with creeks, waterfalls, rocks, caves, wild flowers, mud flats, etc., inspired spontaneous sculptural arrangements     at an early age. A relationship with nature has remained the constant context of her life and as an Animist and Sculptress, what she holds most sacred.  After a career in Dance and Theatre, that spanned 30 years, Jeanette discovered Sculpture and completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1995, Majoring in Sculpture, at Monash University, Melbourne. With a Post- Graduate Degree in Arts Therapy, she has also practised as an Arts Therapist for 10 years. Sculpture, has been an inevitable progression from dance for Jeanette. The movement of form in space with Sculpture reflects the more kinetic movement of Dance. Just as Theatre can be unifying and evocative for both performers and audience, so can Sculpture. Confounding conformity and bi-passing pre-conceived prejudices, is the domain of  the Arts that most interests Jeanette, particularly in the arena of Environmental Sculpture. She seeks both meaning making and a message in her work - particularly about environmental issues. Jeanette hunts many found objects in nature, weathered detritus of wood, metal and stone to combine with made objects. Favouring ‘lost wax’ casting, in bronze and aluminium, enables the built form to be constructed directly upon the ‘found object’, organically melding the relationship between the two. Whether by ceramics, carving, welding or constructing with wood, metal and stone or casting in newspaper, plaster, resin, aluminium and bronze – finished with paint, resins, hot branding, patinas and glazes – Jeanette like’s to mix media and expose the relationship between sculptural objects in space. Like a Sphinx in a Tutu laid in her own egg, pierced with her own horns, on a two way street between life and death She sits, endlessly grounded in Creation.   Private Acquisitions 1994 -  ‘Angel Sword’ – bronze figurine. 1995 -  ‘Trance Dancers’ – 3 bronze figurines. Monash University, Graduate Sculpture Exhibition. 1996 -  ‘Capricorn’ – bronze figurine, commission from Germany. 1996 -  ‘Blue Guardians’ – 2 caste aluminium figures aligned with 6 ultramarine blue polyurethane resin figures. Exhibition Sales  2008 -  ‘Dancing Dress’ -  Private collection – Byron Bay Writer’s Festival – inlaid and over glaze ceramic. 2008 -  ‘Bridget’ -  Private collection – Byron Bay Writer’s Festival - cold caste bronze nude. 2010 -  ‘Post-Tree Museum’  - Private collection – ‘ArtsCape Biennial’ Byron Bay – antique hardwood fence posts, steel footings, hot caste bronze. Gallery 2009 – 2010 – 8 edition nudes sold – ‘Bridget’ and ‘Kelly’ – cold caste bronze – Retrospect Gallery, Byron Bay. about gallery contact home