Public art proposal

I actually quite like the look of it.

I for one feel much better knowing the ArtPolice(tm) are on the case.

c’mon cranky, all i’m asking is for you to nominate the art you actually like. if you can’t, maybe outline in brief the sorts of fundamental faults in the best of the bad lot so we can understand what you understand about it.

btw, the b/f memorial was, yes, a public project but incorporates a great deal of artwork.

Astro,

Stop at the bottom of the current bottle, and re-read what you just wrote in tomorrows light.

I do not recant from my comments above.

i suggest, then cranky, that you make your comments known to the act arts council, a representative body comprising well-regarded, not inverted comma experts, who advise the arts minister. artsACT also of course advise the minister and the staff comprising this public service body are constantly in touch with the arts community, both practicioners and art enthusiasts and patrons. but of course, you knew this…

what do you rekkun about the bushfire memorial? what’s your assessment of that ‘public project’?

what about art on campus at anu – anything you like there? they’ve got lots of sculptures and art pieces about, even a sculpture garden down towards the moo-zeum… surely there’s some art you like? i just want to get a sense of what you like, rather than comments that everything is ‘crap’ (except al’s statue) surely then the large ‘parcel’ near the wig and pen is worthy of praise? the laser piece on the health building opposite it? the cutlery drain cover in garema place? the sheep? they’re well constructed…

The current sculpture that they have planned reminds me of cold war Russian era too, would look soo much better if it was covered in LED Throwies

Astrojax,

I’m not sure I am particularly fond of anything that Sonic and Co have financed from the public coffers in the name of ‘art’. The Grasby statue appears technically competent, the subject matter malodorous.

This is my point. We, the ratepayers of this city, pay for it, but opinions from the general public are not called for – some faceless art ‘expert’ signs off on it, commissions some artist at a not inconsiderable sum to produce it, and we are expected to stand back and applaud. An open system of comment by ‘qualified’ persons on the works proposed would at least add a veneer of respectibility to the process.

The potential for corruption is obvious, with any questioning of the process treated as an ignorant rant, as illustrated by your post above. This closed shop transfer of public funds from the public purse to mates of the Sonic crowd reaks.

It would be cheaper to get that old unused V-2 Rocket. Not to mention it would be infinite times more awesome.

so let’s see, cranky. if this proposal is “crap”, i wonder if you’d let us know the parameters for your comment by telling us which pieces of public art in canberra are not ‘crap’; in fact, which you deem to be ‘quite good’..?

i’m curious now.

Yeah Spectra that what I was reminded of too. The lines of thought one could draw from that and its place in the ACT are many…