by Alan Todd | Sep 6, 2021 | Art, Artwork, Opinion, Sculpture
I’ve read recently of the ongoing efforts to return cultural artefacts to their countries of origin and works of art to their owners. Visiting the British Museum in my youth, I was struck by the huge collection and often, huge pieces of gateways, sculptures and...
by Alan Todd | Aug 21, 2021 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
Adelaide artist Tom Phillips is a rarity. Painting figurative images of loneliness, separation and societal breakdown with sculpturally thick and glutinous paint, is in direct contrast to the inward-looking, angst-driven personal abstraction and aesthetic minimalism...
by Alan Todd | Aug 8, 2021 | Art, Artist, Opinion
Funding of the Arts continues to be an acrimonious topic of conversation even without the intervention of an all-pervasive pandemic. State governments congratulating themselves on providing state-sponsored Arts entertainment free of cost and chipping into major events...
by Alan Todd | Aug 1, 2021 | Art, Artist, Opinion
Something that I have never understood, or even least, appreciated, is the insistence in education that everyone should take mathematics, five days week for the majority of their school lives. The reality is that most people never again use the mathematical processes...
