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

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

Who Stole the Southern Cross? A Cautionary Tale for Public Art

Curator and cultural visionary Kevin Murray asks what happened to Southern Cross Station, once Spencer Street Station now lost under a morass of advertising. Where is the public art?

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

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

A Community Canvas: Adelaide's Urban Intervention

Published September 2010

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

Why You Paint Like That: Marshall Bell

Woolloongabba Art Gallery, Brisbane
26 March - 17 April 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

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

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