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Jock Hildebrand: Jon, we’re interested in hearing about you and your background and I wonder if you can tell me about your parents and how they influenced your life as a sculptor. Jon Barlow-Hudson: Well, my dad was a magician and a violinist as a young man, and also very interested in architecture, but he became a hydro geologist. So my first years out in Casper, Wyoming we travelled around the state and I got to see the mountains and rocks. Later, after we came back from a tour overseas, dad built a house for the family and I would help. So I started building large things early on. But also when we travelled overseas we didn’t have a lot of toys – dad wasn’t rich so we had to make our own. I’ve always been making things and eventually it morphed into sculpture.
JH: Can you talk a bit about your academic background? JBH: I started photography as a very young person and then in college I started painting and then transferred over to the Art Institute in Dayton, Ohio. I started their art program and they had a good sculpture teacher. He got me going on sculpture and I found it more satisfying than painting since I had been building things before. Then another sculptor from New York, Chuck Ginnever, came in to teach for a semester. He was very inspirational. After that I visited a family in Africa and then went to Germany to study at the Art Academy in Stuttgart for a semester. I signed on to use their studio space and made a lot of sculpture there. I then came back to the States and worked for Chuck on his farm in Vermont as an assistant so I got to learn first hand the life of a professional sculptor. Then he and two of his friends started the California Institute for the Arts and I got my Masters degree there. After living in LA for two years I decided to work in a gold mine in northern California for 2 years. While I was there I made a lot of working equipment for the mine, but then I decided I wanted to get back to my sculpture. I met up with some folks and set up a small studio down in New Mexico and that began what you’d call my professional career.
JH: I understand you’ve done a lot of international travel. Many of us sculptors seem to have started out that way, but you have carried on travelling. Looking at your website I saw you’ve worked in 23 countries. Do you think that this has informed much of your sculptural work? JBH: I started travelling very young so I was very comfortable with travelling overseas and thinking globally rather than just
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