Sasha Reid
An award-winning sculptor, designer and artist who has exhibited around the globe, Sasha Reid has a natural affinity for melding texture and space in intriguing ways and creating work that draw people in.
Sasha has spent most of his working life outside and involved in sculpture; from small intimate works for display in private homes to large outdoor memorials and shared exhibition events.
“It has been many decades since I started my journey in sculpture. It took me some time to gather the skills and understand the process of sculpture. I know now it is all about the process, the thinking time, the staring off into space time,the rummaging around in my head full of ideas and shapes, time. All these little processes combine and drive me into physical doing, pushing me forward out of thought and into the tangible reality of objects.
I chose the unconventional path of teaching myself, learning on the fly and working with as many different people as I could. Learning skills in both how to think and how to use different materials to create objects and tell stories. It is still going on now and is one of the great joys of my life.”
Currently working on large wooden sculptures exploring complexity and composition.
Outdoor exhibitions
2024 Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi Sydney Australia
2023 Inami sculpture camp, Nanto, Japan
2019 Sculpture in the Gardens, Auckland Botanical Garden. New Zealand.
2018 Sculpture on Clyde, Bawley Point, Australia
2018 Major prize winner Sculpture in the paddock, Murrumbateman, Australia
2018 Major prize joint winner HillView sculpture biennial, Sutton Forrest
2017 Sculpture by the sea, Bondi, Australia
2016 Sculpture by the sea, Bondi, Australia
2013 Sculpture by the sea, Aarhus, Denmark
2011 Sculpture by the sea, Aarhus, Denmark
2010 winner Artscape biennial, Byron Bay, Australia.
Public works
Snowy Valleys Sculpture Trail. NSW, Australia
Bali Bombing Memorial, Sydney, Australia
Child migrant memorial, Sydney, Australia
100 Years Surf Lifesaving, Bondi, Sydney, Australia.
Collections
Mona Farm, Braidwood, New South Wales
Medhurst Winery, Yarra Valley, Victoria
Awards
Hillview Sculpture prize, 2018: Sutton Forrest, NSW, Australia
Australia Sculpture in the Paddock: Grand Prize 2018, Canberra, ACT, Australia
About his current work
Use of the multiple is a device Sasha Reid employs to speak of the interconnectedness of things and how life and living are never simple. Reid uses gravity and form to explore themes such as humans’ intervention in nature, and our own part in this complex web. He plays with the saying ‘not seeing the forest for the trees’ and asks us to consider the beauty of the whole as well as the detail when viewing complex problems and situations The work articulates inherent qualities of the raw material; both through the imperfectness of the unworked wood and enabled in the hewn surfaces created through the making process. Trees are cut, manipulated and reconfigured into representations of the complex connections of life.
By using sections of trees in larger sculptures as components he proposes strength in numbers; that we’re better together.