The Bodhisattva and the Bull

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Artist: Allen Horstmanhof 

Title: The Bodhisattva and the Bull 

Year: 2010-2021

Materials: Welded mild steel, carved styrofoam, cellulose cement, fibreglass resin, enamel paint

This work reflects on the nature of place in the Byron Shire region. The Traditional Custodians of the land had a minimal impact on the countryside. However, when itinerant loggers arrived, they turned forests into open paddocks where cattle and dairy farmers subsequently established themselves. Then, in the 1960s and 70s, people with alternative spiritual beliefs moved into the area. The Bodhisattva and the Bull seeks to explore the philosophical dichotomy between these two disparate recent arrivals and their impact by referencing the Zen Buddhist allegory about taming of the raging inner beast as reflected in the Zen poems on the Ten Stages of Enlightenment.  


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Allen Horstmanhof has exhibited at many of Australia’s major sculpture shows including Sculpture by the Sea in Bondi. He was a regular exhibitor at Thursday Plantation East Coast, Byron Writers Festival,  Brunswick Sculpture Walk and Swell Sculpture Festival sculpture exhibitions. He has also exhibited at the Casuarina Sculpture Walk, the Byron artsCape Sculpture Show as well as being invited to exhibit at art events like Art with Altitude at the Brisbane Airport precinct. His larger works are to be found in many gardens in the Northern Rivers of NSW and smaller works are now in private collections here and in Europe.