Public Art ~ Local

The Farmer by Deborah Halpern

Situated on the grounds of the Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery, this sculpture was created by Deborah Halpern between 1986 and 1987. The steel skeleton and concrete sculpture base are covered with glazed ceramic tiles. Deborah is a mosaic artist and makes her own tiles.




The sculpture was donated to the Gallery in 2005 by an anonymous benefactor with the support of the Federal Government’s Cultural Gifts Program.



Transport and installation of the sculpture was sponsored by The Friends of the Gallery.


see more pics of Deborah's work here: Google Images

Bio and more works via Mossgreen Gallery


Bollards by the river...joint project by artists of the region.









Opposite the Gallery and outside the Pioneer Settlement is one of a few bollards that you will find along the river. This one is of Captain Hugh King, who is proudly standing in front of his favourite paddlesteamer the 'Gem'.

Inside the grounds of Pioneer Settlement Museum is a bollard depicting an Aboriginal hunter.

Land Art

One of my favourite artists: Jim Denevan


Brochure from Peter Hinson on Vimeo.

You can see more Pics of Jim's work here on Google

 

More Land Art Pics here: Google images

Foto: Joern Hansen

 http://www.joern.dk/landart/landart.uk.html

 Robert Smithson - Spiral Jetty

(1970)

Andy Goldsworthy

Public Art Online

What is Public Art?
Definitions of Public art on the Web:


• The term public art properly refers to works of art in any media that has been planned and executed with the specific intention of being sited or staged in the physical public domain, usually outside and accessible to all.


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_art

• Definition: An artwork designed to be installed in a public space, often outside.

cybermuse.gallery.ca/cybermuse/teachers/plans/global_glossary_e.jsp

• works of art such as street sculpture, murals and lighting as well as the design of street furniture and surfaces to improve the public realm and contribute to place character and identity.

www.southampton.gov.uk/s-environment/policy/localplanreview/planreview-textinweb/glossary.aspx



Research and Respond to:
 2 Public Artworks from Sculpture by the Sea [see my picks below]
 and one other Public Art - see Jim Denevan Land Art  [above]
PLUS 1 local Public Artwork = see The Farmer by Deborah Halpern [above]

Explore and consider:
Permission to use the Site
Development of Site
Artist's proposal includes - Choice of materials\Scale\Location and its relationship to the artwork\How the site influences the reading of the work\Does it reflect the environment?\Are there any historical associations?
Is it successful? If not, why not? How would you change it or make it better?
http://www.publicartonline.org.uk/resources/research/


Turning A Beach Into An Art Gallery

"This year's Sculpture by the Sea at Cottesloe Beach is the biggest yet, with 64 works by local, interstate and international artists."

Video here courtesy of ABC News:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/video/2010/03/05/2838268.htm
 
Source: Stateline WA
Published: Friday, March 5, 2010 11:10 AEDT


Sculpture by the Sea:
My Picks from Bondi:
[See more on flickr ]

  Photo Samantha Burns

 Photo Viviane Dalles

Photo Viviane Dalles

[All the fotos taken from Sculpture by the Sea website]

More Beach Art - Subodh Kerkar

The Moon

fotos from Subodh Kerkar's website

 

 

The Money Bucket

 

Miniature Tin Bucket

 

The Little Tin Bucket

The Little Tin Bucket in comparison to the Humble Black Bucket

 

My Buckets

Buckets everywhere...

The Humble Black Bucket

The Holy Bucket

The Time Bucket

The Holy Bucket Enlightened

The Holy Bucket on Fire!

The Holy Bucket Burns...

and burns...

The Holy Water in the Lemon Bucket

The Money Bucket

My Bucket Art

VSW100 : Art and Creativity 
Module 1 

 'The Creative Mix'

Project 1 - Lateral Thinking
Exercise 2: Buckets 

Foo Fighters - The Best Of You...

foo fighters songs | music videos | lyrics

Burning Buckets

Burning the Holy Bucket Collage

More Bucket Collage

....started with collecting images of Buckets

Bucket Quotes:

We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain

William R. Alger 

Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean.

Percy Ross quotes

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you.
Jim Rohn 

More 'bucket-quotes' Here


I started my 'bucket journey' by exploring a little about 'what is creativity'
(see below - excerpt from Robert Harris 'Introduction to Creative Thinking')
and doing some research into buckets - googled for images, quotes and general bucket art stuff.

I also doodled a bit in my journal, starting with a Bucket List - what sort of buckets there are, what sort of materials are they made from, what can we use them for, what function could I use them for, single buckets, multiple buckets, coloured buckets, etc.
and, Where do they come from?

I'm using this Blog to collate information, I also have OneNote and my Visual Diary to collect stuff and document my thoughts, and eventually sort it all into a powerpoint.
I feel more comfortable organising my thoughts into a blog format - I like to see it up on the screen, so to speak.

[have to remember to check into Oasis as well, because it is moving rather rapidly in there and it takes a bit of catching up!!!]

Bucket Art - Project 1 - Exercise 2

Bucket Art Images from Google Images

VSW100 : Art and Creativity 
Module 1 

 'The Creative Mix'

Project 1 - Lateral Thinking
Exercise 2: Buckets 


See my Holy Bucket on YouTube




Introduction to Creative Thinking 
- Robert Harris

What is Creativity?

An Ability. A simple definition is that creativity is the ability to imagine or invent something new. As we will see below, creativity is not the ability to create out of nothing (only God can do that), but the ability to generate new ideas by combining, changing, or reapplying existing ideas. Some creative ideas are astonishing and brilliant, while others are just simple, good, practical ideas that no one seems to have thought of yet.

Believe it or not, everyone has substantial creative ability. Just look at how creative children are. In adults, creativity has too often been suppressed through education, but it is still there and can be reawakened. Often all that's needed to be creative is to make a commitment to creativity and to take the time for it.

Introduction to Creativity
Robert Harris
Version Date: July 1, 1998
Accessed December 6th, 2010

Mad about Buckets

Classic Metal Bucket

Glass Bucket

The Humble Plastic Bucket

The Exquisite Rothschild Glass Bucket
[~ worth an estimated Eight Hundred Thousand Pounds]

Blueberries in a Bucket

The Green Bucket

Glass Bucket

Steel Bucket

Small Candlelight Bucket

Folk Art Bucket

 Lone Bucket

 Jagger Bucket

 Spiderman Bucket

Wooden Buckets

Art Deco Bucket

Bucketful of Hearts

Banksy Graffiti Bucket (pulpfactor.com)

Banksy Angel Bucket (pulpfactor.com)

Photoshop Bucket

Copper Bucket

Clip aRt Bucket

Scrap-Booking Bucket

My Favourite Bucket

Bucket Fountain in N.Z.

Craft Bucket

Photos from Google Images

See also my Bucket List on Flickr