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BAROSSA ARTS FESTIVAL
THE ANECDOTE THAT TELLS YOU EVERYTHING – EXCEPT HOW TO RESPOND
The speaker at an exhibition opening has to balance any number of aspects of both the art and the artist. Audiences come to openings hoping to come to grips with the work of the artist and expect anecdotes that impel understanding or at least, recognition that artists have lives beyond the gallery walls.
PERCEPTION, MISPERCEPTION AND PERCEPTUAL BLINDNESS
As soon as the audience asks ‘what does it mean?’ we are dealing not with perception but perceptual blindness.
OF BIRDS, SHARKS AND A SLIPPERY DIP
As someone said to me last year, ‘if I can’t hang my car keys on it, why would I buy it?’
THE ART OF LIMITED CHOICES
There are those in society who claim the right to do whatever they want, whenever they want. To an extent society tolerates such behaviour but that is the point. Tolerance is set within guidelines and laws which promulgate and protect order. ‘Radical’ artists are tolerated and encouraged as a necessary basis to establishing those norms and inevitably become mainstream before they know it. Free will with constraints.
EXHIBITIONS IN 2024
EXHIBITIONS IN 2024 As 2023 comes to an end I...
THE REBELLION IN. ART OR THE ART OF THE REBELLION
THE REBEL YELL FALLS ON DEAF EARS BUT WE STILL WANT IT NOW
WITH THE GODS ALL DEAD WE NEED NEW UTOPIAN DREAMS
Art history does have a place as a sort of religion but nowadays it is hardly ever used. Plotting a course from Monet to Abstraction and identifying the two main thrusts of the modern era in Cubism and Surrealism gets you only so far.
IT’S JUST A STEP TO THE RIGHT AND THEN A JUMP TO THE LEFT. Let’s do the time warp again or maybe not.
Concerns about democracy, liberty, equality, human rights, political pluralism, religious tolerance, and advocacy of subcultures and countercultures are all hallmarks of a fractured society
DISLOCATION, PARALLEL WORLDS AND THE ULTIMATE FAILURE
n essence, the gallery is the tool of the owner/curator not the artist.
THE HIGH PRICE OF ART YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF
people go on cruises to spend money and convince themselves that they are living the high life once reserved for the aristocracy. Buying a piece of art would certainly qualify as ‘high life’ in that no matter the bargain offered
IN THE QUEUE AND OUT OF THE EQUATION
The relationship between artist and...