Gilbert Riedelbauch is a practicing artist exhibiting nationally and internationally. After an apprenticeship as a toolmaker he graduated as a silversmith with a Meisterschueler at the Academy of Fine Art in Nuernberg, Germany. He completed a Graduate Diploma (Silversmithing) at the ANU School of Art in 1992.

Gilbert was part of the team that established the Computer Art Studio introducing digital technologies to students and staff at the ANU School of Art, and since 1994, he has been lecturer in Computer Aided Design (CAD) and 3-Dimensional Computer applications.

Recently he has been a recipient of national and international awards and is represented in collections including the National Gallery of Australia. Currently he is a member of the board of Craft Australia.

 

As much as the mind links an idea with a design solution, the hand connects design to the making process. Making becomes the extension of design and forms the essence of craft.

New technologies play an ever increasing part in my working practice. The skillful manipulation of tools and process’ - the basis of making – is equally important for digital work and require an experienced hand. This augments and expands all aspects from sketching to the making, digital technologies have a hand in it. Using the old together with the new calls for new design solutions and informs the resulting objects. Traditional silversmithing techniques interact with rapid prototyping parts and the virtual 3D space of the CAD program feels like an extension to my workshop.

The pleasure is in the making wherever and however it happens.

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