by Alan Todd | Jan 20, 2024 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Review, Sculpture
In any one year there are numerous art competitions across Australia with some thematically focussed and some medium-specific. There is never any shortage of entrants. The art competition has been a cultural staple for more than a century and is inevitably used...
by Alan Todd | Dec 6, 2023 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Painting, Sculpture
EXHIBITIONS IN 2024 As 2023 comes to an end I am planning for next year. It promises to be busy. The large wooden sculptural works will be out on display for the first time as will many of the smaller pieces. Of particular note will be the installation at Palmer. It...
by Alan Todd | Jun 16, 2023 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Sculpture
Recently I installed two tall wooden sculptures outside a gallery against a backdrop of endless rows of grape vines. They were there for the duration of an exhibition – a matter of six weeks. They didn’t survive. Oriented east-west to emulate the ancient stone...
by Alan Todd | Dec 6, 2019 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting, Sculpture
Over fifty years I have worked in sculpture, drawing, photography and theatre but always saw myself as a painter. In my teenage years it was all I wanted to do but firstly my school art teacher saw little in what I was doing and decried my use of colour and then in my...
