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
ACTease April 2014
April 2, 2014 | troublemag
by Courtney Symes
What is your favourite children’s book? No matter how hard I try, I can’t choose one. Now that my eldest daughter is nearly two, I have to confess that I’m enjoying rediscovering my old favourite … Read More
ACTease March 2014
March 3, 2014 | troublemag
by Courtney Symes
The things that inspire artists constantly amaze and excite me. It could be a word, a feeling, their home or local environment and surroundings that trigger the greatest creative sparks. The beauty of these humble … Read More
ADEloud February 2014
February 8, 2014 | troublemag
by Cassandra Scalzi
Well, Santa may have come and gone and I didn’t get what I wanted, but the silly season is still rife in Adelaide, with a giant cockroach recently being erected in Rundle Mall. Must the … Read More
ACTease February 2014
February 4, 2014 | troublemag
by Courtney Symes
“I ain’t no saint, but I’ve tried never to do anything that would hurt my family or offend God … I figure all any kid needs is hope and the feeling he or she belongs. … Read More
Conversations with the Black Square
December 16, 2013 | troublemag
Revisiting the art and theory of Kazimir Malevich through the sculpture of Gill Gatfield
by Jennifer Choat
“I HAVE fished myself out of the rubbishy slough of academic art,” Kazimir Malevich announced in 1915. The Russian artist … Read More
AdeLOUD Dec2013 / Jan2014
December 15, 2013 | troublemag
by Cassandra Scalzi
Do you still believe in Santa? I used to. In fact, I used to visit the big man with the long, white beard every year since I turned 21, inform him of my good behaviour … Read More
ACTease December 2013 / January 2014
December 2, 2013 | troublemag
by Courtney Symes
What are the best art exhibitions and shows you’ve seen this year? The last year has been a very special one for Canberra, with 2013 marking the centenary of this extraordinary city. Whilst I’ve enjoyed … Read More
ACTease November 2013
November 1, 2013 | troublemag
Courtney Symes
One of my favourite excursions on a sunny weekend in Canberra is a stroll around Lake Burley Griffin, followed by a wander through the NGA and National Portrait Gallery (and a sneaky coffee stop at one … Read More
ACTease October 2013
October 2, 2013 | troublemag
by Courtney Symes
I’m not a camper, So I can empathise with the shock that Belconnen artists Carolyn Fitzpatrick and Carole Osmotherly would have experienced as they reluctantly left the comfort of their Canberra homes to venture on … Read More
ACTease September 2013
September 3, 2013 | troublemag
by Courtney Symes
September is one of my favourite months in Canberra. The show-stopper event of the month is Floriade (think one million flowers in Canberra’s Commonwealth Park attracting more than 400,000 visitors), which starts on 14 September, then … Read More
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Dressing the Movies Part One by Inga Walton
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