Street Art

I really like these two sculptures in Barack Street. There were placed there as part of Art and About last year. I don't know if they are going to stay or not.

Thompson

Street art in the mall in Hobart.

Town Hall sculpture

These two sculptures are housed inside Sydney Town Hall.

An Ear for Music: From a large piece of Carrara marble, sculptor Peter Schipperheyn created a tribute to Dame Joan Sutherland who first sang in Sydney Town Hall in a student performance of the "Christmas Oratorio" in 1946. She maintained that the opportunity to sing in Sydney's Town Hall represented a pinnacle in her career. The sculpture, which features a large ear, draws analogy to the idea of sound and music. Shipperheyn's design appealed to the committee appointed to commission the work because it did not attempt to create a portrait of Dame Joan, or her operatic characters. According to Edmund Capon, Director of the Art Gallery of NSW, the work of Peter Shipperheyn, a self-taught artist, expresses hope, sensitivity, classicism and contemporanity.

Remember Nellie Melba: Recessed into the southern wall of the Main Hall of Sydney Town Hall is a bas relief inscribed "Remembering Nellie Melba", by Arthur Murch. Murch was a former engineer who had changed careers and after studying painting and sculpture became an official war artist during World War II. The tribute was proposed by Lord Lurgan, who as a vocalist toured Australia for the Australian Broadcasting Commission in 1939. As a young singer, Lurgan had received encouragement from Melba, and his tribute was intended to record Melba's great contribution to music in a venue where she had performed so often. The tablet depicts a figure in song with instrumental and natural accompaniment. It was unveiled by Her Excellency Lady Gowrie during the interval of the first War Fund Patriotic Concert arranged by the ABC in the Town Hall on 19 May 1941 on the anniversary of Melba's birthday.

Monochrome Weekend

For more monochrome madness, visit Dragonstar's Weekend in Black and White. 

Couldn't think of a title for this post but these sculptures are near the Art Gallery Cafe.

Finding a niche

Not what you usually see in these niches at the entry to the Art Gallery.

Taphophile Tragics

Detail from the Adelaide War Memorial. The Spirit of Compassion, bearing aloft the body of a dead soldier, symbolizes and commemorates the sacrifice of those who gave their lives in the war and the loss experienced by those who loved them.

The Spirit of Duty appearing before the youth of South Australia, as represented by the girl, the student and the farmer.

Interior of the War Memorial.

This is an entry in Julie's Taphophile Tragics meme.

Sky Watch Friday

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Weekend Reflections

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Weekend Reflections

For more reflections visit James' Weekend Reflections.

Sky Watch Friday

 

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Useful Street Art

Bruce Lee

This two metre bronze statue of martial arts legend, Bruce Lee, stands in Kogarah town square. The statue was a gift from the City of Shunde in China to make the one year anniversary of the of Kogarah's Friendship City Agreement with Shunde.

Sky Watch Friday

Michael Snape's "The Trail" sits on top of the hill behind the brickworks in Sydney Park at St Peters.

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Art and About - Laneway Art (6)

Deconstructing Ways, Isidro Blasco

‘Deconstructing Ways’ creates a parallel world for your imagination to step into. At the intersection of Mullins Street and Market Row another option to the usual route appears – distorted but strangely more real than the street you are standing on. For a second or two you will be surprised that your own image is not actually reflected in that new street – or is it?

Art and About - Laneway Art (5)

Peri(pheral)scopes: Looking-over to the over-looked by Heidi Axelsen, Hugo Moline and Adriano Pupilli

Rogue ductwork is grafted onto the air-con shafts and drainpipes of Skittle Lane to become peri(pheral)scopes: giant optical devices looking out to Sydney’s western edge. The views presented are glimpses of places as only locals know them.

Art and About - Laneway Art (4)

Yarnbombing, guerrilla knitting, or yarnstorming – call it what you will. Queen and founder of the knit graffiti movement Magda Sayeg employs a handmade aesthetic to Sussex Lane, infusing a warmth and humanity to a landscape of concrete and steel.

Art and About - Contested Landscapes

What is a loaf of bread worth to you? Over two days, performance artist Robert Guth bakes loaves, offering them to passers-by in exchange for items they consider of equivalent value. He documents the exchanges and sells them on eBay. On the stand to the right of the photo below are some of the exhanged items.

IMAGINE a collaboration between art and science, with creative minds working together to tackle the complex contests for scarce land and resources facing our local communities. Curated by Leo Robba and produced by Anthony Papp, this unique exhibition showcases very individual artistic responses to the science informing current debates on topics such water, land usage, urban development, transport and food security.

Sky Watch Friday - Art and About - Tsunami 1.26

Flying high above the heart of the city, Tsunami 1.26. is a gigantic arerial net installation by acclaimed American artist Janet Echelman. This spectacular vision is one of the works from the Powerhouse Museum’s new Love Lace exhibition, and combines ancient craft practice with cutting-edge technology to create an oasis of sculpture delicate enough to be choreographed by the wind. Netted with a high tensile rope, 15 times stronger than steel in weight, and lit by changing coloured lights, Tsunami is inspired by the events that unfolded following the 2010 Chile earthquake. Using a 3D model of the 2010 tsunami, and software to create an outline of the model’s higher amplitude area, Echelman created her sculptural form, with machine-knotted mesh revealing the intricacy of traditional netting.

So far I've only seen this one in the rain and it wasn't terribly impressive. Will try and go back at night when its lit up.

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Art and About - Laneway Art (3)

Bubbleway, a modular, inflatable social furniture system designed for Laneway Art, asks us to rethink our notions of public space and discover new forms of informal social interactions, creativity and play in a heavily encoded cosmopolitan centre. This young couple seemed to be enjoying it.