Five Hundred Sculptors in Melbourne!

Public Art in Australia

Vol 18 no 2, 1998

The last issue looking at public art was in 1989. Since then the act of putting an artwork into the public arena has become a theatre of conflict, misunderstanding and mismatch of expectations of the parties involved. Issues of community consultation, funding, location, relevance, corporate policy, government involvement are addressed.

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Author: Mr Ken Scarlett, feature

Whether Melbourne can support 500 or more sculptors is yet to be proven, but the talent is there and architects, developers and city councils seem to be much more receptive to the concept of public art.

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Articles in this issue

Book review: Public Art Practical Guidelines
Feature: A Moment of Reflection
Feature: Against the
Feature: An Artist Speaks Out
Feature: Bridging Art and Ecology
Feature: City Provoked: These Questions and More....
Feature: Commissioning Public Art: A Consultant Speaks
Feature: Entrepreneurs and Public Art: Private Sponsorship for Public Art Begins to Bloom in WA
Feature: Fire Rituals for Multicultural Times
Feature: Five Hundred Sculptors in Melbourne!
Feature: For Arts Sake a Fair Go
Feature: Getting up to Speed in Queensland: The Learning Curve Levels Off
Feature: Good or Bad Idea: The Community as Public Art Practitioner
Feature: How the 'Art in Public Places' Debate Shackles Creative Genius
Feature: Local Government and Public Art
Feature: Marking the 2000 Moment: Sydney Pulls Out the Stops
Feature: Need an Artist? Call ArtSource
Feature: Not Fence Sitting: The Art on Line Project
Feature: Percent for Art in the West
Feature: Politics/Poetics: Reflections Documenta
Feature: Public Art at the Canberra Museum and Gallery
Feature: Public Art can Kill
Feature: Public Art in Sydney - Olympian Heights or More of the Same?
Feature: Putting Art in the Landscape
Feature: Shelf life, Use by Date and Other Related Issues
Feature: Specific Times and Particular Places: Recent Public Art in Tasmania
Feature: The Enduring Moment
Feature: The Public Interest: Is There Any?
Feature: The SCIP Project: The Making of Memories in Amnesia Land
Feature: The Vision not so Splendid
Feature: What do THEY make of it?
Review: 1998 Adelaide Festival Visual Arts Program
Review: All this and Heaven too
Review: Artists' Week... Walk that Walk
Review: Coming Round the Mountain: Excursive Sight
Review: Contemporary Art in Asia: Traditions/Tensions
Review: Pillow Songs: Poonkhin Khut
Review: Visual Arts Program: Festival of Perth
Video review: Video