PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE

Dear Artists all,

As your new President I want to wholeheartedly thank Feyona for inviting me to take on the reins in 2025, but more importantly I want to acknowledge the incredible presidency she has held for fourteen years with her calm considered manner, her ability to engage the committee members which sustains The Sculptors Society functions.

I first joined the Society in 1994 when it was exhibiting in NSW Parliament House, a very limited space with little opportunity to be seen by the public. Sculpture always seemed to be second cousin to paintings and probably still is regarded as less accessible and affordable. Sculpture can be perceived as monumental and only for public spaces. The Sculptors Society exhibitions over the last few years, often in public venues, have allowed the public to see sculpture as a beautiful addition in our home interiors and having a long generational life.

To develop exhibitions has been a theme of The Sculptors Society now since a friend and I contacted Greenwood Plaza Managers in North Sydney in 1997 and obtained their sponsorship of a sculpture exhibition. This was successful and The Sculptors Society took on the idea for exhibitions in public places, initially in Darling Park which ran for several years.

Finding available sites for exhibitions is always a challenge and I am impressed by the enthusiasm of the committee members to find these and to promote exhibitions for our members.

I have taken on this presidency a little prematurely, that is, just a few months before I retire at the end of November. Feyona has offered to support me over the next few months. I have been actively engaged in the practice of medicine for 62 years and in psychiatry for 57 years and so I look forward to having time and an opportunity to be more creative and with renewed vigour for my own work and also to be involved with the society and the people and friends I meet in it.

  Margaret Sheridan