Geelong sculptures

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A recent event in Geelong connected places from the Barwon River to the sea and several sculptural items were created and are on display at City Hall - a venue that most people wouldn't even go into! Here are three of the artworks. There doesn't seem to be a website much about them as completed but one of the sculptors has a website of his work. The items I photographed are quite small - about two foot high. It would be good to seem them as large and out in the environment.

Cutting up pictures

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When paint doesn't seem to work, I get out the scissors and chop up magazines, art gallery handouts, the Art and Antiques freebies. I had been visiting the Geelong Art Gallery to see the sculpture exhibition - 19th century to the present day - sentimental kind of naturalism to abstract and a bit back to figurative. The kiss of an angel statue had very good curved shapes but the subject was a bit off-putting, a soft looking fellow and a languid gal. The reference of the exhibition was the words of Michaelangelo' I saw an angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.' Is an angel masculine or without gender? Is an angel with wings real anyway? So I decided to see what happens when you mix up two different cut up pictures etc. One of the results could be Michaelangelo dreaming, another 'Dream on', and the third 'Let's get out of here'. The last one is actually from an advertisement for a different Geelong gallery and I guess I ought to apologize to artists and galleries for mis-using their pics!