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At The Launch of ‘Kintsugi, Our Golden Years’, by Jane Gillings
Sawmiller’s Park
29th November, 2019
A work is good when you are transfixed by it.
If you do happen to walk past it without noticing it, your footstep will be suddenly lighter.
Read MorePens and Pencils, 25th November, 2019
It is my custom, well, for the last twenty years or so, to write a short statement for occasions such as tonight.
I have written several in the last month. One was read at the annual dinner to celebrate patrons of Sculpture by The Sea.
Another was for a Christmas party at Ron Robertson-Swann’s home. I didn’t read that one.
To some it may appear to be grandstanding, simply drawing attention to oneself, but this is not the case.
It is my calling and I am simply doing my best to comply.
Read MoreMay we treat you ladies and gentlemen to some light manifesto.
Tonight we bring you Terrible Music and
By way of introduction some clarification on our musical philosophy
And program.
Read MoreSculpture by The Sea Patrons Lunch.
Friday, 1st November, 2019
Buon Riccordo Restaurant.
I am delighted to participate in today’s acknowledgement of patrons of Sculpture by The Sea, and I have written a short statement to commemorate the occasion.
More specifically, I am bringing a word.
That word is ‘Processual’.
Read MoreThis Sydney outpost of Australian Galleries has just had its thirty year anniversary.
Happy anniversary Sydney!
Among galleries in Australia, Australian Galleries stands alone in having stood the test of post-colonial time.
When other galleries have keeled over from exhaustion, Stuart has not only not wavered in his enthusiasm, but is expanding, with his support of sculpture and the sculpture park soon to open Porcupine Ridge in Victoria.
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‘The Shopping’
Looks like a jumbo pack of toilet rolls. It’s not. It’s a bag of white cotton rags. The drawing disguises the contents.
Read MoreWe sometimes imagine, often, deluded, that we move progressively and that progress’ direction is more or less as the crow flies.
Read MoreSculpture by The Sea proposes to exhibit a conceptual prototype of a Mexican Wall for the 2019 Bondi exhibition.
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It is of no special account.
I thought I was making a bridge.
Freedom is my contribution to Sculpture by The Sea 2018. The work is a self-portrait. I am standing in a barred window gazing out into the world.
Read MoreThis poem was published in the exhibition catalogue for the NAS Alumni Show No.1.
Read MoreThere is nothing on the phone for me. …
Read Moren the future there will be more space. …
Read MoreRoad is glistening black from morning showers. …
Read MoreFederal parliamentarians have shown recently that they have lost perspective of their priorities.
Read More(The Mystery of) The Coffee Circle
Read MoreThat which is without, is no less worthy than that which is with.
Read MoreAwful to still have prizes, especially when the winner is chosen for its excellence and durability in equal measure. We will never know which were the purely excellent works.
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