During the summer of 1987, while visiting Quebec City, I first met Armand Vaillancourt as he was working on Drapeau Blanc, a monumental sculpture composed of over 92 tons of calcite brought in from the Saguenay Lac-St.
Forum: Australia’s Sculpture Prizes
Robert Bridgewater, Red Trunk and Black River, 2003. Finalists for the Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award. After a lapse of nearly 40 years, prizes, for a variety of reasons, have again become popular in Australia.
Materialized Expression: The Sculpture of Liam Gillick
The work of Liam Gillick needs to be entered through the totality of his practice. His artwork is intimately interwoven with his work as a critic, writer, curator, and designer. What he makes for the gallery space manifests, explicates, and proposes a complex of ideas that he is concerned with in all aspects of his
Industrial Poetry: A Conversation with Cildo Meireles
Meireles’s works are threatening, seductive, and sometimes both at once. …see the full review in December’s magazine.
Buster Simpson: Green Interventions
Simpson’s works in public spaces are sensitive to a site’s history and ecology…see the full review in December’s magazine.
Responsible Criticism: Evaluating Public Art
The idea of responsible criticism is, of course, predicated on the existence of public art criticism, period, a body of writing that has yet to reach critical mass. There are various factors responsible for the present near vacuum.
