National Gallery of Australia | Audio Tour | The National Sculpture Prize and Exhibition 2005 Podcast
1) James ANGUS, Manta ray 2003
I wanted to capture an aspect of natural history in a state of suspended animation. I was hoping it might be beautiful, but also sad, as if the software I’d used had inadvertently caused its demise. I...Show More
2) Geoffrey BARTLETT, Double self-portrait 2004
Double self-portrait is a sculptural re-exploration of concepts first undertaken through a body of aquatints while on a Harkness Fellowship in 1983–85 at Columbia University. At that time it was my in...Show More
3) Craig WALSH, Cross-reference 2004
Cross-reference continues a series of interventionist works that address the public, private and transitional aspects of both the gallery space and other public spaces. The defined architectural bound...Show More
4) Neil TAYLOR, Virtual hermetic 2003
The use of wire combines the evocative power of drawing with the actual presence of form. The interior as well as the exterior is illustrated and a heightened sense of volume is achieved. Modelled sha...Show More
5) Paul SELWOOD, Turbulence 2004
Turbulence started as an idea to model the sky. To try and turn the sky into an object. To identify vectors and work ‘infinite’ space into a closed system. For this, I thought to make a sculpture in w...Show More
6) Tony SCHWENSEN, Monument to progressing thought (after Homer Simpson) 2003
Monument to progressing thought (after Homer Simpson) is an attempt to locate what I regard as the most significant trajectory of sculptural investigation of the twentieth century, the ready-made, wit...Show More
Tony SCHWENSEN, Monument to progressing thought (after Homer Simpson) 2003
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7) Alasdair MACINTYRE, The Art Park Project 2002
As an artist, I take in concepts and ideas from various and diverse sources. One writer that I find most interesting in terms of constructing an attitude towards life and my own art practice is Americ...Show More
8) Ruth JOHNSTONE, The doll's house gallery (boxed) 2004
The phenomenological playfulness in the process of model making is guided by Jonathan Swift’s descriptions of the inversions of scale between humans and architectural environments in Gulliver’s travel...Show More
9) Patrick HALL, Stack 2005
My older sister would, in a three-dimensional Superman comic sort of typeface, loudly proclaim her ownership by writing her name over and over on her things. Mum became particularly aggrieved when her...Show More
10) Richard GOODWIN, Moth 2003
Moth forms the next work in my exploration of exoskeleton and prosthetic architecture. NASA moon photographs depicting a sole astronaut roaming next to his flimsy vehicle are evoked. Travelling on ...Show More
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