public sculpture

3 min read 2021-12-29 06:28:44

Paramor at Moreland Station

The prime location beside busy Moreland Road is a car park because the massive LXRP project was all about a hypothetical increase in traffic flow.

3 min read 2021-11-27 15:26:51

Another fortnight and another attempt to decapitate another sculpture in Melbourne. Last time it was Gandhi, this time, a 2 metre tall, half-peeled

1 min read 2021-11-19 07:13:49

There is now a monumental sculpture, Vigil – The Heart of Cabrini by Simon Perry, out the front of Cabrini Hospital in Malvern. A sculpture of this

1 min read 2021-11-15 07:29:10

A day after the Mahatma Gandhi statue at the Australian Indian Community Centre in the Melbourne suburb of Rowville was unveiled, someone attempted

1 min read 2021-10-09 10:39:14

The great American modern art critic Clement Greenberg grandly described David Smith simply as “the best sculptor anywhere”. Although David Smith

1 min read 2021-09-23 15:20:09

A discus thrower sculpture has been stolen from the front yard of a suburban house in Bunbury Street, Footscray. There is now a sign in the yard

1 min read 2021-09-21 11:19:44

About a dozen contemporary, non-figurative site-specific assemblages, created from locally found material. Rusted metal springs blossom like a

1 min read 2021-08-16 09:30:29

“Look, a sculpture!” A cyclist says to her companions as they roll by following the curve of the cycle trail through Darebin Parklands. David

2 min read 2021-04-18 07:11:25

Banks, bakeries, hairdressers and dry cleaners are the basic requirements of local shopping. Where once there were newsagents, milk bars and

1 min read 2021-04-04 10:35:48

It is Unmissable, a giant bronze face of a man. The centre of the face is bright as if spot lite. He is looking out from the side of Readings Books

3 min read 2021-03-27 12:57:04

Considering four works of public art with differences in funding, permanence, and relationship to place, as well as techniques and materials. All of

3 min read 2021-02-16 07:14:26

This has been a big year for unauthorised public sculptural artwork; both for little and larger works, veterans and novices. The Little Librarian

2 min read 2021-01-27 14:14:59

What would happen if, like in the story of Pygmalion, Melbourne’s public sculptures were to come to life? It is a story from Yell Olé, a Melbourne

2 min read 2021-01-11 05:47:01

Rarely does the sculptural elements of inner-city, suburban front gardens rise above the found object, the cast concrete, or an art student’s

3 min read 2020-12-11 10:06:06

The Jane Goodall Institute Australia asked local artist Lisa Roet to create David Greybeard for their sixtieth anniversary. David Greybeard is one of