The Fourth Plinth

In Antony Gormley’s living portrait 'One and Other' for 100 days, from 6 July to 14 October 2009, 2400 randomly selected, otherwise unextraordinary, individuals continuously occupied the empty plinth in Trafalgar Square for an hour at a time.

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 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

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

Social Conscience, Migration, Rivers and Oceans: Virginia King

New Zealand sculptor Virginia King is an artist who has long recognised the changing nature of public art and the part it can play in raising awareness and social conscience.

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

Pacific Jewellery

Curator: Maud Page
Foyer Cabinet, GOMA, Brisbane
1 May - 4 July 2010

Published September 2010

Why You Paint Like That: Marshall Bell

Woolloongabba Art Gallery, Brisbane
26 March - 17 April 2010

Published September 2010

Solar Systems and Winter Glow: Cameron Robbins, Alexander Knox

Anna Zagala looks at two striking public artworks in Melbourne, Cameron Robbins and Christopher Lansell's The Solar System down at the St Kilda Foreshore and Alexander Knox's kinetic light work Maxims of behaviour on the corner of Bourke and Swanston Sts in the UBD of Melbourne.

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

A Tradigital Survey

A Tradigital Survey

Curators: Kirsten Rann, Gina Kalabishis
Level 17 Artspace, 300 Flinders St, Victoria University, Melbourne
29 June – 16 July 2010

Published September 2010