The Enduring Moment

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Lipstick and Land Rights: matriarchal sovereign history and the cyber frontier
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Lorna Munro

Published 24 January 2022
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We Don't Fabricate, We Weave: Kumarangk (Hindmarsh Island) and Ngarrindjeri women’s resistance
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Dominic Guerrera

Published 15 December 2021
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Reclaiming the Rock in Project Banaba: Creativity, survival and agricultural colonialism in the Pacific
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Katerina Teaiwa

Published 15 December 2021
Gallery Lane Cove
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Lipstick and Land Rights: A poetic response
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Lorna Munro

Published 15 December 2021
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Woven Selves, Entangled Countries: Weaving across borders
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Dameeli Coates

Published 15 December 2021
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Sovereign city, sovereign self and Warrior Woman Lane
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Timmah Ball

Published 15 December 2021
Gallipoli Art Prize
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Miyurr Mi:wi: Working from home in the spirit of Country
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Tracey Rigney

Published 15 December 2021
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My Sovereign Mind: A practice in two parts
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Hayley Millar Baker

Published 15 December 2021

It is arguable that temporary public art is a more valid response to the transitory, dynamic and complex nature of the city and public life, more available to be critical and exploratory, than its permanent counterpart.

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What do THEY make of it?
Feature
Tamara Winikoff

Jenny Holzer shared some thoughts with Tamara Winikoff during Artist's Week in Adelaide in March 1998 about her relationship with the public, who over the years and in various countries, has been the audience for her artworks in the public arena.

Published June 1998
Marking the 2000 Moment: Sydney Pulls Out the Stops
Feature
Gene Sherman

Sculpture is often considered a difficult medium. Public art is frequently controversial. Yet, public sculptural art offers the widest possible audience and the greatest opportunity (by far) to experience, within the increasingly intense landscape of our cities, the humanising and deeply satisfying impact of art and culture.

Published June 1998
Need an Artist? Call ArtSource
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Helena Spedding

ArtsWA created 'ArtSource' as an artist's and art consultants register as a means of facilitating best practice in project development and management.

Published June 1998
Against the
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Peter Anderson

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......

Published June 1998
Public Art in Sydney - Olympian Heights or More of the Same?
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Courtney Kidd

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.

Published June 1998
Public Art at the Canberra Museum and Gallery
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Jacky Talbot

In a city with so many cultural institutions focused upon the national agenda, the new Canberra Museum and Gallery is a significant symbol of the ACTs (Australian Capital Territory) increasing confidence in a local identity, interdependent with its national role.

Published June 1998
City Provoked: These Questions and More....
Feature
Virginia Fraser

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.

Published June 1998
Good or Bad Idea: The Community as Public Art Practitioner
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Maggie Baxter

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?

Published June 1998
Politics/Poetics: Reflections Documenta
Feature
Anne Kirker

'documenta X' curated by Catherine David from France, opened in Kassel Germany on 21 June 1997 and ran for 100 days. This colossal international event could not be simply understood as an art exhibition and it defied many of the expected ingredients of large scale block busters.

Published June 1998
Five Hundred Sculptors in Melbourne!
Feature
Ken Scarlett

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.

Published June 1998
Bridging Art and Ecology
Feature
David Cranswick

Over the past decade there has been a significant increase in the number of public art projects directed at the improvement of the quality of public environments. Looks at two projects 'Restoring the Waters' in Fairfield (NSW) involving the artists Michaelie Crawford and Jennifer Turpin and the East Perth Greenway Project by artist Nola Farman. Both projects involve urban waterways and are to do with connecting people to place.

Published June 1998
For Arts Sake a Fair Go
Feature
Sharon Theedar

The status quo of moral rights of artists in Australia today in respect of site specific works.

Published June 1998