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THE IVORY TOWER, THE OPTIMIST AND THE FAILURE OF ARTS EDUCATION
So, while curriculum writers and critics argue about how many Australian artists might be mentioned in classrooms, their endeavours will fall on deaf ears unless the visual arts are prioritised and not left to chance and competing curriculum demands of what becomes increasingly irrelevant in people’s lives.
OF BANKSY, BIG BROTHER AND THE PAPAL INDISCRETION?
Another public case against yet another giant corporation on behalf of street artists everywhere at least keeps the rights of street artists in the public spotlight.
CENSORSHIP, POWER and a POLICEMAN WITH A BRUSH.
Trying to separate the artist from the work of art or the colonial imperialist from the nature of the culture created, is futile.
COLLABORATION, SYNCHRONICITY and a LEAP OF FAITH
Collaboration at any time is a matter or trust...
Exhibition of paintings in Adelaide
Image and text can illustrate each other or...
ON GENDER, COLOUR AND LEFTHANDEDNESS
This affirmation, or conversely, this idea of rejection permeates the art landscape. There are winners and losers, by far the greater majority destined to be life-long losers by this measure. A level playing field? Some would suggest not.
COLLABORATION, SYNCHRONICITY AND THE CAMEL
Collective or collaborative art is simply a camel with attitude.
THE SELF-CENTERED, THE COLLECTIVE AND THE ATEMPORAL
While the cult of the heroic individual artist will seemingly continue forever, collaboration around shared philosophies, shared knowledge and that a work of art is not necessarily anchored to a specific individual, time or place may well be the most effective response to the time in which we find ourselves – past, present and future as one.
FEARLESSNESS, ABUSE AND THE CRITICAL FACULTY
Fearlessness is all well and good but when the criteria for critical appraisal are based not on objectivity, profound knowledge, understanding and an ability to express all of that in terms that elucidate and not obfuscate, what you are left with is simply opinion.
OF CAKE AND THE CRISIS OF IDENTITY
It’s not the first time that confections have ended up on the copyright battlefront.
NAKED, NUDE and THE REVERENTIAL SELFIE
Perhaps as a society we’ve actually grown up....
CENSURE, PROPRIETY AND THE JAILED ARTIST
There is nothing new about artists poking the bear for a variety of causes from government inaction to government action