Paul McGillick in Conversation with Jan King Table of Contents

Boarding School

Death of father

Secretarial school

Visiting galleries

The hippie trail

Impact of carvings

Emotional memories

London cultural events

European travel

Become art teacher

University for Foreigners

Accademia di Belle Arti di Pietro Vannucci

Focus on sculpture?

Not very good teaching

Graphic quality to work

Drawing in space

Bernini in Rome

Accepted at East Sydney Tech

Glenn Murcutt in tears

Start in the suburbs

Better teaching than Italy

Enjoying sculpture more than painting

Compatible to sculpture

East Sydney Tech teachers

Study at Randwick

Modelling, carving, casting

The importance of process

Piece evolves through process

Distinction between art and craft

Finding your own voice

Lessons from teaching

Meeting Paul Hopmeier

Fruitful relationship

The idea of constructed sculpture and using metal

Abstraction was dominant

Steel is like modelling

Work in a lighter way

Shape and stuff

Use of negative space

Parallel with Matisse

First use of steel

Guggenheim and Kandinsky

The Pavane of The Ladies of Toledo

Impresive roll call of female sculptors

Being part of a tradition

Beginning with other metal

At the New York studio

Guarding work space

New York very confining

Influence of Anthony Caro

English sculptors

Echoes of Cunnamulla

The sense of landscape

Freedom to move and work

Travel motivation

Travelling through Europe

Seeing things afresh

Sculpture and the ground

Hanging sculpture

Work around in space

Thinking beyond the flat

Playing with fundamental things

Texture and tension

Work occupies space and part of space

The problem of abstraction

Pure abstraction versus abstract art

An abstract sculptor