Jos Van Hulsens work is now on display at the City Library in Flinders lane until August 30. The work is part of the Niches @ City Library initiative. The program will showcase a different artists work each month. Artworks will be displayed in glass cases throughout the library. Jos’s work explores the spiritual connection [...]
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Post Industrial Design Open
Post Industrial Design is now open for business. Sculptor/designer, Jos Van Hulsen continues to re-imagine old objects, sculptural beds, lights, gates, cupboards and tables are just some of the things you can find. Also in-store are quirky one off products by some great local talent, hand made bags created form recycled leather, hand crafted jewellery, [...]
Stone series
After a spending some time in Bundanon for a artist residency I was very much inspired by the huge rocks in the area.
West Footscray
The surrounding local industrial environment inspired the design of the Gate for West Footscray Neighbourhood House.
EastLink installation
Reverent Numbers, formerly Casualty Numbers, a work which made acclaim by coming 3rd in the 2007 Helen Lempriere Awards, has recently been purchased by ConnectEast; the commissionaire for the new Eastlink freeway. The work is expected to be installed soon. We will keep you posted when it will be available to the public.
Artists Lunch Elgee Park
Having recently attended an artist luncheon at the beautiful Elgee Park Winery owned and run by the Myer family, I was impressed and inspired by the diversity of the sculptural collection available to the public.
Bundanon Trust artist in residence
Bundanon Trust offers a residency in conjunction with the Helen Lempriere Sculpture Award. As a Lempriere finalist, receiving the Encouragement Award in 2007 for the work titled Casualty Numbers, Jos spent some time as artist in residence.
Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award.
Helen Lempriere was one of Australia’s leading female artists in the mid 20th century, lauded nationally and internationally for her work as a painter, printmaker and sculptor. The Award was launched in her honour in 2000, as a result of a bequest by Helen’s husband, the late Kieth Wood. The 2007 Lempriere Award Winner Julia [...]
Casualty Numbers
Casualty Numbers, made of steel, mirrors and enamel distance counters recycled from Victorian railways, this piece explores how we’ve become immune to news of casualty numbers, unless they include someone we know.
Steel Appeal
There is art in spare parts says sculptor Jos Van Hulsen, who gives industrial junk a new lease on life. Article in The Age 4 November 1998 shows some earlier work and describes Jos and his wife Mary in the earlier days in Richmond. Download the pdf of the entire article.