Stephen Bond
Tasmania-based Artist and Musician
Stephen Bond is a Tasmania-based artist and musician who has won awards in both disciplines.
His art practice centres around consolidating an already established career as sculptor and painter continuing to develop unique processes in an abstract and representational style. His sculpture can be found across the state in exhibitions, farm and private locations.
As a musician he is primarily a solo performer specializing in Latin Bolero song and Spanish style guitar. His compositions include romantic Spanish lyrics across flamenco-inspired improvisation. Occasionally he'll accompany bands with Sax. You'll often find him performing at local markets and events across the South.
Sculpture
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Painting
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Guitar
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Sax
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Vocals
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Performance
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Sculpture • Painting • Guitar • Sax • Vocals • Performance •
Music
Spanish Original Song and Guitar
I sing original Spanish lyrics against a backdrop of Latin / Flamenco fusion guitar skills. For details about the roots and influences of what I play check out my page entitled “Guitar Influences”.
Over the past 10 years I have played at venues and events in and around South Eastern Tasmania and the Tasman Peninsula.
I am a passionate multi-instrumentalist who plays guitar and sax, as well as weaving vocals into my performances.
Playing a variety of instruments since a young age means music has been a large part of my life since the age of 7.
Around 2003 my son had a few guitar lessons which inspired me to pick up the guitar, the instrument I passed music with in college. From then on I made a pact that in my 9-5 job I would get up at 5 am and practice guitar at least 40 minutes a day.
At that time I was going through the Real books keeping hold of the Jazz standards I’d learned more than 10 years ago when teaching sax and using guitar to accompany a full contingent of private students I was teaching in Melbourne back in the 1980’s.
Tarkine by Steve Bond:
Art
I sit on the border. I don’t decide. I explore the way subject matter can be almost but not quite be representational, symbolic or abstract. The way subject matter is identified, or not, fascinates me. It is different for each viewer and could be rated somewhere along a representation – abstraction index.
Sometimes my pieces could be representations, symbols or abstractions. Landscapes are often local and named but in some cases barely represent place. Figurative works are impersonal.
At other times forms emerge as a pencil creates the line on the preliminary sketch. Works bear essences of metamorphosis of the figurative calligraphic, symbolic, abstract and chance.
Objects float in space, hanging there for the viewer’s decisions. It’s almost there but not quite!
