A thought is a seed - Anton Hasell

A thought comes into your mind, first like a ghostly visitation, but soon enough, as an engaging companion, rich in multiple perceptional possibilities. It is not until those dimensions are examined, even if by scant perusal, that another ghost apparition emerges from the original form. This is the seed of an idea wanting to take form. Iteration upon iteration, renewal following renewal, our mind's eye progresses into the space of the world in which we live.

Anton Hasell

Anton Hasell is a sculptor living in Central Victoria exploring the use of both traditional and digital tools in the design of bells, interactive public-space installation, sculpture and printmaking. He is best known for the creation of the Federation Bells Carillon in Melbourne and for other public-space artworks in Australia, New Zealand and the USA.

Anton has recently completed the design, casting and tuning of ten 'difference-tone' bells for the Longnow 10,000 year Clock project in Texas USA. 

Through his practice Anton seeks insights into the mysterious and subliminal truths of the Australian landscape whose rhythms operate as a resonant and binding experience linking each of us to our country and to one another.

He creates new forms that seek to tune into the resonant frequencies of the Australian landscape and to manifest its ambient sonorities. Inventing new forms, new sounds and joyful public sites to encourage communal playfulness and shared creativity has resulted in a body of work promising, in each next iteration, to be the clearest and most succinct yet.  Anton lives and works in Mia Mia with his partner Georgina in a bluestone house they built themselves.