Against the

There's something about public art projects that seems to either bring out the best or the worst in artists. Looks at the 'loo with a view' on the beach front at Mooloolaba on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. The project has not been without its tensions......

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Entrepreneurs and Public Art: Private Sponsorship for Public Art Begins to Bloom in WA

Although the history of the west militated against private sponsorship, it began to blossom in the 1990s. This was assisted by the State Government sponsored Percent for Art Scheme. Looks at various examples of public art in Western Australia.

Dorothy Erickson

Artists' Week... Walk that Walk

Review of Artists week for the Adelaide Festival of Arts 1998

Stephanie Radok

Commissioning Public Art: A Consultant Speaks

"I am looking at the final design and thought 'what went wrong?' Weeks earlier the Arts Committee had selected an exciting concept design. Why did the artist change the concept design so dramatically?"

Merily Oppermann

The Public Interest: Is There Any?

"Living a few hundred metres away from a community arts project has clarified my doubts about the standard and the value of such projects and what they achieve for their supposed audience." Peers explores the current issues facing the production of community and public art looking at 'The Bridge, Construction in Process' an event and exhibition which took place in Melbourne over March- April 1998.

Juliette Peers

The SCIP Project: The Making of Memories in Amnesia Land

Looks at the Sandgate Town Centre Improvement Project (Suburban Centre Improvement Projects) in South East Queensland.

Pat Hoffie

Public Art can Kill

Looks at issues of the law and public art with references to Richard Serra's 'Sculpture No.3' and Christo's 'The Umbrellas: a joing project for Japan and USA'.

Julie Robb

1998 Adelaide Festival Visual Arts Program

Review of the 1998 Adelaide Festival Visual Arts Program February - March 1998

Cath Kenneally

An Artist Speaks Out

Challenging work, work that made some form of investigative observation about where we stand at this point in time was virtually not appearing anymore....In Adelaide and other cities, decorative design work, which is often very literal and subservient to conservative briefs, commercial interests, political agendas and restrictive models has appeared everywhere under the name of sculpture.

Greg Johns

Contemporary Art in Asia: Traditions/Tensions

Exhibition Review Contemporary Art in Asia: Traditions/Tensions Organised by the Asia Society New York Art Gallery of Western Australia 6 February - 29 March 1998

Michael O'Ferrall

Public Art in Sydney - Olympian Heights or More of the Same?

The Olympic Co-ordination Authority and the Sydney City Council, the two commissioning bodies, have the power to transform the capital with their curated programs of site specific public art, some of which will have a limited life span. Ironically, in these environments where relationship to site is one of the criteria for inclusion, it is left to the artist to reconstruct the histories, to illuminate the voices demolished to make way for Olympic progress.

Courtney Kidd

Good or Bad Idea: The Community as Public Art Practitioner

If art in community places isn't for the community using those places, then who is it for? Should all art in public places have immediate community appeal, or reflect those communities in some way, or even have community contributions? And if the answer to any of these is yes, need this impinge on the quality of the art?

Maggie Baxter

City Provoked: These Questions and More....

RMIT project 'City Provoked' asked questions about the nature of public art emphasising 'new genre public art' - flexibility and responsiveness, specificity and topicality, innovation, challenge, engagement, unregulated encounter. collaboration, temporality and process rather than closure.

Virginia Fraser

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