sculpture
Merran Esson : Standing Still and Silently Balancing
June 7, 2020 | troublemagThe Western Sydney University Sculpture Award & Exhibition has been postponed until 2021 due to COVID-19, but the finalists have been announced. Congratulations to: Mark Booth, Jennifer Cochrane, Chris Edwards, Harrie Fasher, John Fitzmaurice, Jim Flook, Martin George, Akira Kamada, … Read More
Sticky Beasts
December 8, 2018 | troublemagTREADING LESS AGGRESSIVELY IN THE WORLD
by Helen Kelly
It’s Sticky Beast time of year! This tradition is slowly but surely taking root as a seasonal celebration. In our land without snow for snowmen we make do with sticky weed.
The Madness of Art
October 1, 2017 | troublemagThe Tasmanian Museum of Antiquities (And Minimal Art)
Jim Kempner
Jim falls for an early minimalist art masterpiece – literally.
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Swell Sculpture Festival 2017
September 6, 2017 | troublemagCurrumbin Beach, Gold Coast (QLD), 8 – 17 September 2017 swellsculpture.com.au
IMAGES IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE
All images by Rowly Emmett Photography (foreground) Clayton Thompson, Safe. (background) Joy Heylen, The Crab. Manning Daly … Read More
Trapping the Island Tide
January 28, 2017 | troublemagThe Sculpture of Jon Eiseman by Jennifer Choat
“But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin,” wrote Aldous Huxley in Brave New … Read More
SALON November 2016
November 1, 2016 | troublemag
COVER: F., Riot Stage, world premiere. Director Katrina Cornwell Writer Morgan Rose Assistant director Amelia Newman Producer Anna Kennedy Set and costume design Yvette Turnbull Lighting design Matthew Adey Sound design and composer Raya Slavin Stage manager Kate … Read More
SALON December 2015 / January 2016
December 7, 2015 | troublemagCOVER: MONTALBETTI+CAMPBELL, Andy Thomas 2002, type C photograph on polyester-based paper. Collection: National Portrait Gallery, Canberra. Commissioned with funds provided by the L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2002. Uncommon Australians: The Vision of Gordon and Marilyn Darling, a National … Read More
Memento Park: An Audience with the Comrades
December 7, 2015 | troublemagInga Walton
When your Socialist utopia crumbles under the weight of decades of anger and seething resentment on the part of the brutalised proletariat, what becomes of the visual representations of that oppression? Any despotic régime worthy of a … Read More
Matthew Harding: Thinking Hands
October 4, 2015 | troublemagINTERVIEW by Steve Proposch
I took an instant liking to Matthew Harding. Meeting for the first time at his workshop in Trentham, he struck me immediately as the kind of guy I’d enjoy chatting to over Friday frothies at the … Read More
Art Meets Design: Brunswick Bouldering Plaza
September 1, 2015 | troublemagStuart Beekmeyer
This project merges public sculpture and recreation by creating a climbable centrepiece for a new public plaza in Melbourne’s northern fringe.
How has the project played out in terms of turning your original vision into reality … Read More