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Welcome! Come take a trip with us around the world of Cal the Stoner, Intricarved stone sculpture;

The Goddess

The Andamooka Tiger

888

Intricarved stone sculpture definition

Artist bio

Intricarved stone sculpture gallery

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Cal the Stoner is an artisan stonemason turned sculptor and creator of the sculptural technique...

Australia's only confirmed art style creator since at least 1770.

IT'S OFFICIAL. IRREFUTABLE

    Live studio updates...

    Cal's latest video updates from the Intricarved sculpture st

    The Andamooka Tiger to be set up properly in Roxby Downs before he ventures into the world.

    The Goddess features take form...news from the Intricarved sculpture studio. Feb 2025.

    The most Aussie art gallery ever!

    Cal appears on the ABC TV series Backroads. Jan 2025. Watch this clip from the show.

    Cal the Stoner stands next to The Goddess in this progress update, the face and hair.

    Cal the Stoner creator of Intricarved stone sculpture

    Australia's only confirmed art style creator since 1770, artist Cal the Stoner, creator of Intricarved stone sculpture, works full time from his open-air sculpture studio in the opal mining town of Andamooka, South Australia. 


    Named 'The most Aussie art gallery ever!"


    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. Entry fee is a cold beer.

    Sculpture gallery

    View Cal the Stoner's Intricarved sculpture gallery
    Cal the Stoner close up detail of an Intricarved stone sculpture, The Andamooka Tiger.

    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. 

    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. 


    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.

    See how The Andamooka Tiger progressed
    It took Cal the Stoner eight attempts to get the opal pupils just right on The Andamooka Tiger.

    At The Andamooka Tiger grand unveiling the artist makes a last minute adjustment. Fitting the eighth set of pupils, red rolling flash Andamooka opals. It has to be just right!

    Cal & The Andamooka Tiger pause under the desert sun for a work in progress photo, Andamooka SA

    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

    Cal the Stoner and The Goddess in progress, she might be nude but do not bely her modesty.

    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."

    Watch as The Goddess progresses
    Cal the Stoner showing visitors to the studio how an Intricarved stone sculpture works.

    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.

    Visit the open-air sculpture studio

    View Cal the Stoner's body of work on the sculpture gallery page

    Cal the Stoner - The Goddess - Intricarved stone sculpture
    website icon for Cal the Stoner body of work Andamooka Tiger
    website icon for Cal the Stoner body of work sculpture 888
    website icon for Cal the Stoner body of work sculpture The cube
    website icon for Cal the Stoner body of work sculpture Hedron series
    website icon for Cal the Stoner body of work sculpture Stone River series
    website icon for Cal the Stoner body of work sculpture Planets of galaxy z

    Take a trip into the Andamooka open-air studio

    Take a trip into the Andamooka open-air studio in this video created by a friend of Cal the Stoner.

    An artists journey

    From St Kilda city to the Australian outback. 


    As the scale of Cal’s sculptures grew. Space to sculpt was required. Sculpting from a St Kilda apartment presented some challenges...


    Cal moved around a variety of locations in Melbourne, including residency's at The Laneway Artspace and the Theatre Research Institute. Then a friend suggested the Australian outback opal mining town of Andamooka. 


    Cal promptly loaded his sculptures, stone and studio into an old bus and drove 1307 kilometres across the desert.

    Visit Cal the Stoners studio
    Image of a Planet of galaxy z whilst kookaburras sit perched on the progressing artwork. instagram

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    Cal the Stoner's studio has it's own street sign in Andamooka. Cal standing under the sign.

    Cal the Stoner, not your standard deviation

    Tour Andamooka with the Andamooka Observatory

    Friends of Cal the Stoner, The Andamooka Observatory offer day and night, opal mining and star gazi

    Join the gang on a tour

    For all exhibition and sales inquiries

    Contact Damian Triffit, Unity Consulting Group

    Ph: +61 410 512 575


    Email: DT@unityconsultinggroup.au

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