Sculpturescape

Sculpturescape was the final iteration of the Mildura Sculpture Triennial back in the late 70's, but has been conceptually revived by Lorne Sculpture Prize curator Julie Collins. This year the traditional sculpture trail along the foreshore of Lorne has been extended to incorporate the diversity of contemporary sculpture practice. It will include Sculpturescape a 1 day temporary installation exhibition, a program of Performances pieces by Australia's most significant Performance artists, Rawscape - a prize for tertiary art students, as well as a lecture by Inge King and a forum about contemporary sculpture.

Here are some of the details, please come and join us.

Over the next 2 weeks you will hear quite a lot from me on this blog about the event as I am participating in Sculpturescape, assisting with the performances, and supervising 2 groups of students for Rawscape.

The last remains

I received this week a disk of images documenting the last remaining dustwork from 'The Silence of Becoming and Disappearing'. Pictured below is the work which I created in Pomonal in August 2010.

In my initial proposal, I said "that the works may go on on to gather further dust".... Here's what it looked like after a year.

Books books books

The long awaited book launch of 'New Romantics: Darkenss and Light in Australian Art' by Simon Gregg is here. Please come along to the book launch and celebrate.

Across the other side of the globe, Melbourne artist Yandel Walton is featured in 'Where they create' by Paul Barbera. So if you've ever been to her wonderland studio and sung sing star till the wee hours and walked out into the dawn, wishing you could live in an awesome warehouse like hers, now you can have a little bit of awesomeness for your own coffee table.

Order on line here 'Where they create'

Still on the topic of books, I brought about 20kg's of art books back from the states and am now working my way, week by week down through the deep pile. This week it's Robecca Solnit's A field guide to getting lost. Part novel/non-fiction, part philosophy/practical advice, part journalism/part poetry, partly makes me want to stay in bed and read all day.