$400k for more public art in Civic

To be honest I’d rather see the money spent on something substantial like this stuff than just pissed away in a plethora of small grants to nobody artists, or worse still – simply sqandered on flowerbeds, public schools or hand-outs to twats who over-extended themselves on their mortgage.

Jan Brown is a fantastic local artist, and has donated a heap of her smaller sculptures to ACT museums in the past.

Huge statues like this just don’t get made without being commissioned by governments or millionaires, – it think this is going to be fantastic!

Agreed Felix the Cat, what I detected from it – the school provides the materials, they call it a learning experience (a little free slave trade) and subsidise everything and then one lucky entity gets almost $400,000? I can only hope they meant the whole kit and kaboodle cost that much when everyone including the Melbourne manufacture?

Still too much, would’ve rather seen ten local artists given contracts or something and lots of works went on, geez it’s like the signs around the place, they must be hiding gold in ’em!

While it’s a good a local Canberra person is benefiting from this I reckon there are more important things that $400K could buy.