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.
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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)
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.
Dimensions - Ground Painting in Papunya
Extensive examination of the women's ground painting created at Tandanya (National Aboriginal Cultural Centre) for the Adelaide Festival in 1990.
Places for Sculpture and Sculptors: Perth
Gomboc Gallery and Sculpture Park is an inspiring example of vision and dedication to an artform within the private enterprise system.
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.
Gerry Wedd
Exhibition Review Scratch Works
By Gerry Wedd
Jam Factory Centre of Art and Design
February 1993
Spatial Shamanism
It is a brief sober guide to certain spatial (and therefore sculptural) behaviours as initially identified and described by Bronte Edwards, Commander in Chief of the Art Army.
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.
New Books on Richard Goodwin and Ari Purhonen
Review of new series of critical monographs
Edited by Christopher Allen
Ari Purhonen
Richard Goodwin
Australian Artists Series
Oliver Freeman Editions 1992
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Pat Brassington, Edward Colless, David McDowell
Exhibition review Book of Jonah 1932
Pat Brassington, Edward Colless, David McDowell
Private House, Mt Stuart, Hobart
May 1993
New Sculpture in Papua New Guinea
Re-evaluation of the current position of artworks from Papua New Guinea looking particularly at sculpture.