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intakes https://hyperallergic.com/865677/californias-iconic-salvation-mountain-designated-a-historic-site/ There is a term for people who make ‘art’ regardless/despite/because of what is going on in their lives and which labels them outsiders or naive. They may have an agenda, they may be mad, but the frame for calling them names is based on the art market terminology that real artists work in or aspire to be involved in.

So I was flicking through number 134 of Texte zur Kunst, an issue devoted to sculpture, and started with the article by Simon Baier 'A carrier bag theory of sculpture.' I was in a library moments before a meeting, so did not think much about it as I read what little I read of the article, so this is not…

There are works of art in which the primary reaction, at least on my part, is goodness how much effort went into this? Where did they find the time? Who paid for all this? Why did they bother? This is in contrast to people who wonder, “Where do they get their ideas from?” While the artistry may or may not…

The importance of an exhibition as a event is all very well, but as Gilbert & George are often want to say, it is the postcards or the posters or even the catalogue that people take back to their homes, they argued that these takeaways have an important democratic character. I would add because they go out into the world.

Platform Arts occupies an old re-purposed court house in Geelong|djilong kulcha precinct. Worlding exhibition in July 2024 curated by Amber Smith, occupied the main exhibition space downstairs, and upstairs mezzanine and theatrette. I am here because of the word 'worlding', a project of my own. Part 1 is here. You can enter by the cafe and go up either side…

Unable to make the opening night of the exhibition at Platform Arts of Worlding in Gelong|djilong I delayed the trip to the mainland into the penultimate week of the show (ending 19 July 2024). This did give me time to print and bind a doctoral thesis, which Dr Amber Smith kindly emailed to me. Along with the information that Amber…