Sculpture Flourishes in Western Australia
This article is about sculpture in Western Australia and how efforts have been made in the recent past to establish the nature of its practice and the identity of its practitioners.
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Ceremonial Work in Darwin
Darwin has a burgeoning arts community which produces a unique body of visual art related to festivals and events. Aboriginal culture and proximity to Asia and the Pacific have influenced the work being produced by these artists.
A Fact, A Question
Sculpture is not like painting because it is not flat and does not raise the question of mimesis in the same way. A theory of sculpture must therefore be, somewhere at its deep foundations, different from a theory of painting. Not just a bit different: a lot different.
Mildura - The Watershed for Sculpture: 1975 Destablising Old Canons
...It was therefore inevitable that by 1975 Tom McCullough's Mildura Sculpturescape would attract an increasing number of artists doing installation, process, earth and other forms of art that emerged when sculpture, as it were, left the pedestal, moved around the room and went outside.
To the Surface
Exhibition Review To the Surface - Contemporary Landscape Plimsoll Gallery
Centre for the Arts Hobart Tasmania
10 - 24 January 1993
Curator Ray Arnold
Dancing Sulka Masks
Examination of the role of dance masks in Papua New Guinea culture. The author was in the area to invite 2 Sulka men to Adelaide to dance hemlaut and susu masks at the Pacific Arts Symposium in April 1993. Coloured photos of the dance masks.
In Landscapes and Parks: Lake Districts, Yorkshire, Otterlo
Looks at three locations Grizedale Forest (UK) Yorkshire Sculpture Park (UK) Rijksmuseum Kroller-Muller of Otterlo (Netherlands) where one can experience sculpture within the landscape.
Places for Sculpture and Sculptors: Sydney
Tony Bond, artistic director of the recent Sydney Biennale suggests that since the staging of the first Biennale in 1973 sculpture and other three dimensional art have been actively promoted in Sydney.
Places for Sculpture and Sculptors: Melbourne
With commissions over the past year at Southgate, the Great Southern Stand at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, the Swanston Walk and others, Melbourne's image is undergoing change. Renowned for its Victorian buildings and innumerable memorial sculptures of kings, queens, politicians and military leaders, Melbourne is now seeing contemporary sculpture in unexpected places. (Ken Scarlett)
Locations
Exhibition review Location: Contemporary photo-based work from Australia University of South Australia Art Museum
4-27 March 1993
Exhibitions for PAA
Written with Vincent Megaw Visual Arts Exhibitions and the Fifth Pacific Arts Association Symposium Great colour photos of works by indigenous Australians.
Australian Humour in Sculpture
Does each country, race and cultural group have a particular sense of humour? And if so, is it possible to define their specific characteristics?
The Advantages of Isolation
Exhibition Review The Advantage of Isolation
Festival of Perth Artplace
Claremont Western Australia
28 January - 6 March 1993
and at the Blaxland Gallery
Sydney New South Wales
11 February - 7 March 1993