Artlink 9:2
Issue 9:2 | June 1989
Editor: Stephanie Britton
This special issue of Artlink takes a look at the field of public art in Australia and projects and strategies involved with integrating art with the built environment. The relationship of urban surroundings to mental and physical well-being is one which is beginning to be understood, with the result that planners and architects are beginning to consult with public health workers. The WHO Healthy Cities program described by Dr Ilona Kiekbusch represents pioneer work in this field.
We are grateful to Foundation South Australia who have recognised public art as a health related issue and have generously supported the extra costs associated with this special issue.
Cover: Public sculpture on the way up. The Lawrence Hargreave Memorial Sculpture by Bert Flugelman being installed on Mount Ousley near Wollongong, May 1989. This piece commemorating the Australian pioneer of flight, was jointly sponsored by the Illawarra Mercury, BHP, and Transfield, assisted by the Friends of the University of Wollongong and the Australian Bicentennial Authority. This is the first piece by Bert Flugelman, veteran of many urban sculptural installations in SA, and NSW, to be placed in a rural setting. It is 11 metres high, in stainless steel.
In this issue
Artrave
Art and architecture: Collaborations
Public art: Some reflections on recent art in public places in South Australia
Recent public art in South Australia: A sampling
Health and the city: The concept of health promotion
Art in public places: The VA/CB
The Sun and the Moon: Paul Juraszek
Seven properties of healthy spaces
A storehouse for the State's movable heritage collections
Education & the art in architecture
Contracts, commissions and clients: Art in the public space
The quarries: Am archaeology
Ireland 1988: Public sculpture conference
Art and tech update
Contemporary art in Baroda, India: Part One
Alien corn
Moet & Chandon touring exhibition: College Gallery
Ann Newmarch: One Aspect
Violence and nastiness: Machinehead
Culture and the critical fan: It's a Sin
Letters
How should we write our history? The Necessity of Australian Art
Picturing Australia: A history of Photography