Local Government and Public Art

Cover of Local Government and Public Art
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Amala Groom: Cosmic Body of remembrance
Feature
Hannah Donnelly

Published 01 June 2019
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imagineNATIVE at 20
Feature
Pauline Clague in conversation with Jason Ryle

Published 01 June 2019
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Sydney Elders: Continuing Aboriginal Stories

State Library of NSW

Feature
Jonathan Jones

Published 01 June 2019
Art Nocturne
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Speaking back to colonial collections: Building living to Aboriginal archives
Feature
Kirsten Thorpe

Published 01 June 2019
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Unravelling the past: Barbed wire and campfire learnings
Feature
Ali Cobby Eckermann

Published 01 June 2019
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Dark Emu: Thank the Earth
Feature
Bruce Pascoe

Published 01 June 2019
NAVA
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Deaths in custody: We've got to give it everything
Feature
Lorena Allum

Published 01 June 2019
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Indigenous storytelling: Deconstructing the archetype
Feature
Pauline Clague

Published 01 June 2019

Increasingly, local governments at the cutting edge are recognising the need to carefully define their role in public art and more broadly cultural development.

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An Artist Speaks Out
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Greg Johns

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.

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
Getting up to Speed in Queensland: The Learning Curve Levels Off
Feature
Ian Friend

The Queenslanders Art Alliance was established in 1986, maintaining an artist register as well as project management programs collaborating with the Queensland government in the 'Designing Environments' strategy which is intended to consolidate the quality of the collaborative process in public art projects. Looks at the Kangaroo Cliffs Boardwalk project.

Published June 1998
Public Art at the Canberra Museum and Gallery
Feature
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
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
Good or Bad Idea: The Community as Public Art Practitioner
Feature
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
How the 'Art in Public Places' Debate Shackles Creative Genius
Feature
David Engwicht

Buckle your seatbelts for a wild, multi-disciplinary ride to explore why all urban space is art... why every individual entering public space is an artist.... how the design of public space either feeds or inhibits this artist.... how professional artists involved in the production of 'public art' should therefore respond.

Published June 1998
Public Art in Sydney - Olympian Heights or More of the Same?
Feature
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
Percent for Art in the West
Feature
Andra Kins

The Percent for Art Scheme in Western Australia uses an allocation of a percentage of the construction cost, usually one percent, of State Capital Works projects to commission artworks. The artist's role is to create works that are integrated with the building or the landscape.

Published June 1998
Against the
Feature
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
The Vision not so Splendid
Feature
Pamela J Zeplin

Prominent gallerist Paul Greenaway and influential educator Pamela J Zeplin speculated recently about the depths to which confidence in the management of Adelaide's Public Domain has sunk. Who is to blame for the rash of mediocrity -- consultants, governments, artists themselves. Interview.

Published June 1998
Coming Round the Mountain: Excursive Sight
Review
David Hansen

Exhibtion Review Coming Round the Mountain: Excursive Sight
Plimsoll Gallery,
Centre for the Arts University of Tasmania Hobart
17 January - 1 February 1998

Published June 1998
 
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