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

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

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

Flight of a Bird: Life in Performance: Linda Lou Murphy

Curators: Keith Giles, Ali Baker and Yoko Kajio
SASA Gallery, Adelaide
6 April - 7 May 2010

Published September 2010

Wallpaper

Linda Banazis, Penny Bovell, P. James Bryans, Susanna Castleden, Sue Codee, Cat Critch, Rebecca Dagnall, Jo Darbyshire, Mark Datodi, Annabel Dixon, Anna Dunnill, Eva Fernandez, Brendan Hibbert, Harry Hummerston, Little Design Horse, Clare McFarlane, Trevor6025/Emma McPike, Toogarr Morrison, Philippa Nikulinsky, Perdita Phillips, Gregory Pryor, Alex Spremberg, Marzena Topka, David Turley, Paul Uhlmann, Caitlin Yardley.

Curators: Thelma John, P. James Bryans
Gallery Central
Central Institute of Technology, Perth
12 - 31 July 2010

Published September 2010

Synergy Tasmania-Style - Ocean, mountains and windpower meet boardwalks, public art and a new museum

The Glenorchy Art & Sculpture Park (GASP!) project on the outskirts of Hobart
is under construction just two kilometres from Australia’s largest private freely accessible art gallery the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), opening in January 2011.

Published September 2010

Exhibitions to Watch

Published September 2010

Was Drau - En Wartet/What is Waiting Out There: 6th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art

Curator: Kathrin Rhomberg
11 June - 8 August 2010

Published September 2010

The Meandering River: Slowing Down and Keeping Going

The notion of public art has been shifting over the years to include hopeful new models for change in a time of uncertainty - festivals, the temporal, the long term developmental and experimental thinking about how art can modify and influence the public realm.

Published September 2010

Why You Paint Like That: Marshall Bell

Woolloongabba Art Gallery, Brisbane
26 March - 17 April 2010

Published September 2010

Melbourne >< Brisbane: Punk, Art and After

Curator: David Pestorius
Ian Potter Museum of Art
University of Melbourne
24 February - 16 May 2010

Published September 2010

Green: Richard Giblett, David Haines, Colin Langridge, Lucy Bleach, Roman Signer, Bec Stevens, Richard Wastell, Semiconductor (Ruth Jarman + Joe Gerhardt)

Curators: Geoff Parr, Lucy Bleach, Bec Stevens
Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart
16 April – 14 May 2010

Published September 2010