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The tv series Backroads visits Cal the Stoner
Backroads popped by the outdoor studio the show will be airing Thursday 9th January, 2025.
Cal the Stoner Intricarved stone sculpture
Creator of Intricarved stone sculpture, artist Cal the Stoner, sculpts full time from his open-air sculpture studio in the opal mining town of Andamooka, South Australia.
Cal's body of Intricarved sandstone sculptural artworks includes fifteen completed works; The Stone River series, 888, The Cube, the Hedron series, the Planets of Galaxy Z and the epic Andamooka Tiger.
Continuing his work with celestial bodies, (see the Planets of Galaxy Z), work is underway on Cal's 16th Intricarved piece, The Goddess.
Studio visiting hours are 2pm to 3pm daily.
Sculpture gallery
What is Intricarved stone sculpture?
Intricarved is a sculptural technique that contains a picture/image or patterns in two or more colours created by Australian sculptor Cal the Stoner (Prohasky) in 2011. The lines, textural features and colour changes in an Intricarved sculpture are those found naturally within the stone.
In this close up image from The Andamooka Tiger. You can see how each rock interlocks tightly with it's fellows and how the artist has worked with the natural lines of red and cream-gold pigmentation, unique to the vein of Australian Grampians sandstone that Cal predominately sculpts with.
Four more rocks to make and nearing the end to 8,000 hours work. Not counting the hours I was building it in my sleep
Sculptor’s log November 2021 The Andamooka Tiger
is Intricarved - cosa mia
When pressed to illuminate Intricarved, Cal replied "to the crux of it, I'm a creator, not a copier. If someone thinks they can find this anywhere else in the world they couldn't be more wrong. This here..." he flicks his hand towards his 16th - The Goddess "...is Intricarved - cosa mia."
Discover the world of Intricarved stone art
In an Intricarved stone sculpture, differently coloured stones cannot abut one another, only the same colour can. The lines and colour variations needed for each separate stone in the sculpture are found in larger pieces of stone, Cal then uses his hammer and chisel to get the piece out and then shape it's features to form the next interlocking piece. The process repeated until the sculpture is completed.
In The Andamooka Tiger’s case over 2000 times.
A stone coming loose is impossible!
Though some individual stone faces are the size of a small coin they have a depth of 25mm (1 inch) to 100mm (4 inches). No stones are a thin facade like a tile, they all have depth and strength where each added stone compounds the inner strength.
While it looks like Cal is showing these young visitors how to put down a beer without spilling it, he's sure he's telling them something half knowledgeable.
View Cal the Stoner's body of work on the sculpture gallery page
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Cal the Stoner, not your standard deviation
Cal the Stoner's Andamooka open-air studio even has it's own deviation.