225: Tip Toland on the empathetic potential of figure sculpture

Today on the Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast I have an
interview with figure sculptor Tip Toland. In the interview we
talk about her 2014 Portland Art Museum exhibition, which
featured Tanzanian children that are both revered and persecuted
because they have Albinism. For the exhibition Toland created
twelve larger than life size busts that show the complex
emotional landscape of persecuted peoples. To see examples of the
work, visit
www.cfileonline.org/exhibition-tip-toland-enlarges-albinism. In
the interview we also talk about the qualities that make a
sculpture feel animate and the role hypnotherapy has played in
Toland’s personal development. This interview was taped at the
2018 Clay Gulgong Festival in Gulgong, NSW, Australia. For more
information on the festival visit www.mansfieldceramics.com.


 


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