ARTIST BACKGROUND:In this troubled world of earthquakes, floods, wars and global warming, it is a sheer delight to find a dedicated sculptor with such an ironic sense of humour and a highly developed sense of the ridiculous. While Martin George can undoubtedly make a totally convincing piece of modernist sculpture, viewable from all directions and immaculately constructed, he also likes in catching the spectator unawares. Things are frequently not quite as they first seem ...ACADEMIC HISTORY: Master of Fine Art, RMIT, 2015 Bachelor Mechanical Engineering (Hons), Monash University, 2004, MIE AUST Bronze Sculpture, Chisholm, 2009AWARDS: 2016 Lorne Sculpture Biennale, Sculpturescape Award 2015 / 2016 Finalist Mont Alto Sculpture Prize, Victoria 2015 Finalist 'The Churchie', Griffith University, Brisbane, Qld 2011 Melbourne International Film Festival Take 60 Finalist