Tag: Sculpture

'Illawarra Placed Landscape', 2018 by Mike Hewson, a permanent artwork installed in the Crown Street Mall, Wollongong
News | Emily Wong | 24 Apr 2018

New public artwork brings local landscape into Wollongong mall

New York-based artist Mike Hewson has installed a 17-metre tall ‘palm pole’, palm tree seats, ‘forklift rocks’ and a playground incorporating three sandstone rock formations in the Wollongong Crown St Mall.

Regatta H2O by Christopher Sjoberg and Ryo Saito, winner of LAGI 2016 Santa Monica. Energy technology: aerostatic flutter wind harvesting (WindBelt™). Water technology: fog harvesting. Annual capacity: 70 MWh (used on site) and 112 million liters of drinking water.

St Kilda Triangle named design site for international sustainable energy infrastructure ideas competition

The design site for LAGI 2018 Melbourne will be the St Kilda Triangle, while the main exhibition space will be Federation Square.

Photos from the 1990s: Slit drums from Vanuatu.
Report | Neil Hobbs | 1 Nov 2017

National Gallery of Australia Sculpture Garden

Thirty years after planting, this serpentine trail is now a destination in its own right.

Beyond the Wave by Heerim Architects and Planners, a submission to LAGI 2014 Copenhagen. Energy technologies: organic thin film. Annual capacity: 4,229 MWh.
News | Ricky Ray Ricardo | 19 Jul 2017

International design competition to reimagine renewable energy infrastructure in Melbourne

The Land Art Generator Initiative (LAGI) has partnered with the Victorian government to stage its 2018 competition.

American artists HENSE (Alex Brewer) painted this mural on a grain silo in Avon in 2015.

Make it grain: Art trail to draw tourists to WA’s struggling Wheatbelt

A new cultural tourism trail linking large-scale public artworks in Western Australia’s Wheatbelt region to be launched as part of Perth’s annual PUBLIC festival.

Inside the Flower by Janet Laurence and LAVA.
News | Patrick Hunn | 7 Jun 2017

LAVA, Janet Laurence create membrane-wrapped ‘medicinal garden’ pavilion

LAVA has collaborated with artist Janet Laurence to create a pavilion that is both a botanical display and an “experiential” space featuring edible flowers and plant extracts.

A Cubist’s dream.
Review | Cassandra Chilton | 28 Apr 2017

Sh*t Gardens of Melbourne II: A celebration not a condemnation

Cassandra Chilton reviews the recent exhibition Shit Gardens of Melbourne II: A Celebration Not a Condemnation – an unofficial fringe event to the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show.

A formal grid of glass panels acts as both veils and screens in the garden, presenting and preserving memories.
Review | David Whitworth | 24 Apr 2017

History and herbs: Janet Laurence’s glass garden

This “glass garden” by artist Janet Laurence at the Novartis Pharmaceuticals headquarters in Sydney occupies a space between art, science, imagination and memory.

Studio Olafur Eliasson’s The parliament of reality (2009) at the Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York was conceived as a place to welcome all things.
Review | Charles Anderson | 19 Jan 2017

Unspoken Spaces: Studio Olafur Eliasson

Charles Anderson reviews Unspoken Spaces: Studio Olafur Eliasson, a richly illustrated journey through the extraordinary range of works realized by artist Olafur Eliasson and his studio since the late 1990s.

GASP! Stage 2 - Glenorchy Art and Sculpture Park, Hobart, Tasmania.
Places | 18 Jan 2017

GASP! Stage 2 - Glenorchy Art and Sculpture Park

The City of Glenorchy engaged McGregor Coxall and Room 11 Architects to create a spectacular setting for art, sculpture and experience.

The Floating Piers by Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Lake Iseo, Italy, 2014-16.
Review | Louise Wright and Mauro Baracco | 12 Jan 2017

Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Floating Piers

Mauro Baracco and Louise Wright visited Christo and Jeanne-Claude latest work that stretched across Italy’s picturesque Lake Iseo for two weeks in June 2016.

In the central rain garden native sedges and grasses grow from a bed of local crushed granite. Artwork: Weeping Women by Sanné Mestrom, 2014 (sculptures).
Review | Kate Gamble | 7 Oct 2016

The Ian Potter Sculpture Court

The Ian Potter Sculpture Court at Monash University’s Caulfield campus is a place of stillness and calm.

Monument Park sits between Victoria Harbour and the new McBride Charles Ryan-designed development The Quays.
Review | Andrew Mackenzie | 3 May 2016

Ghost town: Monument Park

Callum Morton, Oculus and McBride Charles Ryan deliver an engaging new public artwork in Melbourne’s Docklands worthy of a visit.

The author explains the lie of the land during a NZILA Auckland Branch visit to Gibbs Farm. On yonder hill is Neil Dawson’s 'Horizons' (1994).
Review | Garth Falconer | 8 Apr 2016

A farm out west

Garth Falconer muses on the reviews the landscape expression at Gibbs Farm, a 1000-acre private sculpture park.

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