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Orest Keywan
DOUBLE DECADE CLUB ARTIST – OREST KEYWAN
We offer our congratulations to Orest Keywan who is the first Artist to become a member of the Double Decade Club for Sculpture by the Sea at Bondi, having exhibited 20 times since 1998.
Orest Keywan, With a View, Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 1999.
Photo Clyde Yee.
Born in Marienbad, on the Czech German border, Keywan studied with Lyndon Dadswell. His sculpture is set apart by a careful consideration of the interaction between viewer and sculpture, an elegant linearity and a unique engagement of space. Art critic John McDonald, previously commented in the Sydney Morning Herald that ‘all of Keywan’s works may be seen as a conversation between opposing quantities and qualities.
Line is pitted against mass, steel or aluminium against wood or plastic’.
Of Sculpture by the Sea, Orest writes:
“It’s the openness of Sculpture by the Sea that attracts me most. The physical openness of the settings, the openness Orest Keywan - Sculpture by the Sea XAC