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This special issue does not attempt to be a national survey of sculpture. It has focussed on various centres and given others less attention, partly to balance previous material in earlier issues of Artlink of which the following are notes by way of summary.

Stephanie Britton

Dimensions: Sculpture in Australia

A Fact, A Question

Sculpture is not like painting because it is not flat and does not raise the question of mimesis in the same way. A theory of sculpture must therefore be, somewhere at its deep foundations, different from a theory of painting. Not just a bit different: a lot different.

Donald Brook

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Spatial Shamanism

It is a brief sober guide to certain spatial (and therefore sculptural) behaviours as initially identified and described by Bronte Edwards, Commander in Chief of the Art Army.

David Hansen

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Mildura - The Watershed for Sculpture: 1975 Destablising Old Canons

...It was therefore inevitable that by 1975 Tom McCullough's Mildura Sculpturescape would attract an increasing number of artists doing installation, process, earth and other forms of art that emerged when sculpture, as it were, left the pedestal, moved around the room and went outside.

Noel Sheridan

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Mildura - The Watershed for Sculpture: An Enchanted Garden

1993 is the 20th annniversary of Sculpturscape '73 an outdoor exhibition that happened in Mildura, a small city on the Victorian side of the Murray River, distant from the state capitals of eastern Australia.

Tom McCullough

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Mildura - The Watershed for Sculpture: McCullough and Performance

The Mildura Sculpture Triennials directed by Tom McCullough seemed the liveliest and most ennjoyable art events held anywhere in Australia...

Daniel Thomas

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Australian Humour in Sculpture

Does each country, race and cultural group have a particular sense of humour? And if so, is it possible to define their specific characteristics?

Ken Scarlett

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Sculpture Flourishes in Western Australia

This article is about sculpture in Western Australia and how efforts have been made in the recent past to establish the nature of its practice and the identity of its practitioners.

Robyn Taylor

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Women Sculptors - A New Bread

You could say that much of the most interesting and demanding artwork being done today is being done by women....There are many new languages in the work of contemporary women sculptors. Important overview of the Mildura Sculpture Triennials in terms of women's representation. Great photos!

Stephanie Radok

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Dimensions - Ground Painting in Papunya

Extensive examination of the women's ground painting created at Tandanya (National Aboriginal Cultural Centre) for the Adelaide Festival in 1990.

Richard (Dick) Kimber

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New Sculpture in Papua New Guinea

Re-evaluation of the current position of artworks from Papua New Guinea looking particularly at sculpture.

Susan Cochrane

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Dancing Sulka Masks

Examination of the role of dance masks in Papua New Guinea culture. The author was in the area to invite 2 Sulka men to Adelaide to dance hemlaut and susu masks at the Pacific Arts Symposium in April 1993. Coloured photos of the dance masks.

Barry Craig

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Richard Dunn: Beyond Dialectics

Minimalism is still misunderstood, not only because its manifestations are so various as to strain the word's usefulness as a blanket term, but more importantly because it stood at the confused fissure between modernism and post-modernism; from this stems the lively contradictory implications of Richard Dunn's art practice.

Ian North

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Places for Sculpture and Sculptors: Melbourne

With commissions over the past year at Southgate, the Great Southern Stand at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, the Swanston Walk and others, Melbourne's image is undergoing change. Renowned for its Victorian buildings and innumerable memorial sculptures of kings, queens, politicians and military leaders, Melbourne is now seeing contemporary sculpture in unexpected places. (Ken Scarlett)

Simeon Kronenberg

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Places for Sculpture and Sculptors: Sydney

Tony Bond, artistic director of the recent Sydney Biennale suggests that since the staging of the first Biennale in 1973 sculpture and other three dimensional art have been actively promoted in Sydney.

Cecily Briggs

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Places for Sculpture and Sculptors: Perth

Gomboc Gallery and Sculpture Park is an inspiring example of vision and dedication to an artform within the private enterprise system.

Dorothy Erickson

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In Landscapes and Parks: Lake Districts, Yorkshire, Otterlo

Looks at three locations Grizedale Forest (UK) Yorkshire Sculpture Park (UK) Rijksmuseum Kroller-Muller of Otterlo (Netherlands) where one can experience sculpture within the landscape.

Janice Lally

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In Landscapes and Parks: Gasworks Park Melbourne

Looks at the 5 year sculpture development program at the Gasworks 3.46 hectares of open space in Melbourne - close to the city, accessible with strong community focus and an emphasis on contemporary art.

Philippa Burne

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New Books on Richard Goodwin and Ari Purhonen

Review of new series of critical monographs Edited by Christopher Allen Ari Purhonen Richard Goodwin Australian Artists Series Oliver Freeman Editions 1992 RRP $49.95

Robert Nelson

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Ceremonial Work in Darwin

Darwin has a burgeoning arts community which produces a unique body of visual art related to festivals and events. Aboriginal culture and proximity to Asia and the Pacific have influenced the work being produced by these artists.

Gwendolyn Broug

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Pacific Arts Association Symposium

Conference review Pacific Arts Association 5th International Symposium University of South Australia Aboriginal and Torres Strait and Pacific Islander Visual Arts Week - Tandanya Aboriginal Cultural Centre Adelaide 12 -17 April 1993

Brenda L Croft

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Exhibitions for PAA

Written with Vincent Megaw Visual Arts Exhibitions and the Fifth Pacific Arts Association Symposium Great colour photos of works by indigenous Australians.

Ruth Megaw

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Locations

Exhibition review Location: Contemporary photo-based work from Australia University of South Australia Art Museum 4-27 March 1993

Stephanie Radok

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Gerry Wedd

Exhibition Review Scratch Works By Gerry Wedd Jam Factory Centre of Art and Design February 1993

Cath Kenneally

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Bronwyn Platten and Cecelia Clarke

Exhibition review Possible Clouds: Bronwyn Platten and Cecelia Clarke Experimental Art Foundation Adelaide South Australia 12 February - 14 March 1993

Leon Marvell

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The Advantages of Isolation

Exhibition Review The Advantage of Isolation Festival of Perth Artplace Claremont Western Australia 28 January - 6 March 1993 and at the Blaxland Gallery Sydney New South Wales 11 February - 7 March 1993

Margaret Moore

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Carol Rudyard

Exhibition review Point of View: Carol Rudyard selected works 1968 -1992 Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery Perth Western Australia 29 January - 28 March 1993

Nikki Miller

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To the Surface

Exhibition Review To the Surface - Contemporary Landscape Plimsoll Gallery Centre for the Arts Hobart Tasmania 10 - 24 January 1993 Curator Ray Arnold

Deborah Wardrop (St Leger)

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Pat Brassington, Edward Colless, David McDowell

Exhibition review Book of Jonah 1932 Pat Brassington, Edward Colless, David McDowell Private House, Mt Stuart, Hobart May 1993

Peter Hill

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Craft in Society by Noris Loannou

Book Review Craft in Society: An Anthology of Perspectives Noris Ioannou (ed.) Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1992 312 pp, RRP $24.95

Anne Brennan

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