Australian Humour in Sculpture

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Reading the entrails: Digesting posthuman entanglement
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Sasha Grbich

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Eating together online: The ambivalent conviviality of ASMR videos
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Francis Russell

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Shared food conversations: Jason Phu and Nagesh Seethiah
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In conversation with Sabrina Baker

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Metro Tunnel (Vic Gov)
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A good dinner party: Food as a medium for social change
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Courtney Coombs

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Eat the problem: MONA's carnivalesque of cuisine
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Ashley Crawford

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Fair Share Fare: Recipe for Disaster
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Jen Rae

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Violent dreams of development: A food bowl in the north‑west of Australia?
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Alana Hunt

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Mai Contemporary Kaurna Food
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James Tylor

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Does each country, race and cultural group have a particular sense of humour? And if so, is it possible to define their specific characteristics?

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Places for Sculpture and Sculptors: Melbourne
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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)

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Sculpture Flourishes in Western Australia
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Places for Sculpture and Sculptors: Perth
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Gomboc Gallery and Sculpture Park is an inspiring example of vision and dedication to an artform within the private enterprise system.

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In Landscapes and Parks: Gasworks Park Melbourne
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Looks at the 5 year sculpture development program at the Gasworks 3.46 hectares of open space in Melbourne - close to the city, accessible with strong community focus and an emphasis on contemporary art.

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New Sculpture in Papua New Guinea
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Re-evaluation of the current position of artworks from Papua New Guinea looking particularly at sculpture.

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Craft in Society by Noris Loannou
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Book Review Craft in Society: An Anthology of Perspectives Noris Ioannou (ed.)
Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1992
312 pp, RRP $24.95

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In Landscapes and Parks: Lake Districts, Yorkshire, Otterlo
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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.

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Mildura - The Watershed for Sculpture: McCullough and Performance
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The Mildura Sculpture Triennials directed by Tom McCullough seemed the liveliest and most ennjoyable art events held anywhere in Australia...

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The Advantages of Isolation
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Dancing Sulka Masks
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Mildura - The Watershed for Sculpture: 1975 Destablising Old Canons
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...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.

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Bronwyn Platten and Cecelia Clarke
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