by Alan Todd | Apr 3, 2023 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion
I recently sat through the 2023 Series of Australian Idol and while I had in the end no investment in who won or of which judge topped the popularity stakes, the idea of public taste determining a winner suggested on the one hand a belief that statistical...
by Alan Todd | Mar 27, 2023 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion
Last year I spoke to an artist who had had to remove and rehang her exhibition three times until it was out of the view of offended pensioners using a community centre. She took her dilemma to a radio station and received a sympathetic reception but in the end,...
by Alan Todd | Feb 28, 2023 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion
I’ve come across this phenomenon a few times before where the broken, the shredded, the lost and the unfinished in the Arts are acclaimed as much as is the pristine. This week it was a Koons Balloon Dog. An artist-collector wants to buy the broken shards,...
by Alan Todd | Feb 17, 2023 | Art, Artist, Artwork, digital art, Opinion
Considered opinion has it that a community of about 500 people who all know each other and can remember all of the individual names and histories, is ideal. This equates to the notion of the medieval village as a self-sustaining entity with common purpose....
by Alan Todd | Feb 4, 2023 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Sculpture
I was at a gallery opening this week where the speaker talked about art therapy and the value of creativity. The need to manipulate materials was innate in her opinion and she spoke with almost religious enthusiasm about the visceral nature of pushing your hands into...
