Strangers and the Slow Laneway Experience

Kate Warren examines Melbourne's laneways and the many way artists have used them to re-energise and re-familiarise local audiences with their urban environment. Artists mentioned are Sarah Rodigari and Tim Webster, Troy Innocent, Matt Blackwood, John Alexander Borley, Anthony McInneny, Sue McCauley and Keith Deverell, and QingLan Huang.

Published September 2010

Street Talk with Mary Lou Pavlovic

Juliette Peers interviews Mary Lou Pavlovic Mary Lou Pavlovic to find out how one becomes a de facto public institution?
MLP: Just do it. Don’t worry so much about acceptance into a very institutionalised dysfunctional system...Worry about being creative and alive on your own terms. Put yourself in any exhibition you feel you should be in. You may not get the institutional rewards but lets face it – they ain’t that great here in Aussie land anyway.

Published September 2010

A Public Spectacle: Next Wave Risks All

Next Wave: No Risk Too Great, directed by Jeff Khan, took place in Melbourne from 13 – 30 May 2010.

Published September 2010

Let's Make the Water Turn Black

Curator: Mat Ward
June 5 – 26 2010
INFLIGHT Gallery, Hobart

Published September 2010

Royal Mail vs McQueen: A very public memorial for the dead

Turner Prize-winning artist Steve McQueen’s recent work 'Queen and Country' (2003-2010) overwhelmingly embodies the complexities and possibilities for memorial-making and public art today.

Published September 2010

Shaw Hendry (1963-2010)

Vale Shaw Hendry (1963-2010)
The image on the front of the catalogue said it all – Hermano Rojo, ukulele in hand, bowing to his audience.

Published September 2010

Not Dead Yet: A Retrospective Exhibition: Therese Ritchie and Chips Mackinolty

CDU Art Gallery, Darwin
11 August -17 September 2010

Published September 2010

A Community Canvas: Adelaide's Urban Intervention

Published September 2010

Echigo-Tsumari: Public Art as Regenerating Force

Janet Maughan travelled to the Echigo-Tsumari Triennial in September 2009. With Stephanie Britton she interviewed the indefatigable Fram Kitagawa, Director of both the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial [ETAT] and of the new Niigata Water and Land Art Festival in the seaport of Niigata, and wove his words around the experience of seeing outstanding art in the unusual and delightful surroundings of the Japanese countryside.

Published September 2010

Why You Paint Like That: Marshall Bell

Woolloongabba Art Gallery, Brisbane
26 March - 17 April 2010

Published September 2010

Self in the City: Launceston Living Laneways

Public artworks surrounding the Regional Arts Australia National Conference and Festival held in Launceston in August 2010 set the cat among the pigeons.

Published September 2010

Art in the Public Arena in the 21st Century

Published September 2010