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A few of you probably have Google Alerts out for your own name - quite a buzz when mine came up for the first time ever! So here is this month's collection - checking sculpture in Australia:

State Grant Provides A Lasting Legacy For The Lorne Sculpture Biennale
Surf Coast News
The 2014 Lorne Sculpture Biennale is still a few months away but a Victorian Coalition Government funding boost will ensure that the event has a presence in town all year round. Minister for the Arts Heidi Victoria was in Lorne on Sunday to announce a ...
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Video artist Laura in the frame
The Mercury
Ms Hindmarsh is among the 32 finalists from across Australia for the $15,000 prize to be announced in Brisbane on Friday. Her video installation Retrace is a two-minute long piece looped over, inspired by expanded cinema from the ... There are video ...
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From resin to gold, mint art has currency floating again
The Canberra Times
... the sculpture, and said it was an important addition to the city's public art. The idea of resin coins was conceived by Chris Mether of Whitecube, who recently completed design work for the National Archives of Australia and the National Museum of ...
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Convergence and divergence at the heart
The Australian
In contrast to the previous survey at the Art Gallery of South Australia, Chemistry: Art in South Australia 1990-2000, curators Nici Cumpston and Lisa Slade primarily have commissioned new works, which include painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, ...
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Dubbo's Taronga Western Plains Zoo calls on artists for Wild! Rhino project
Daily Liberal
Rhinos by sponsoring a rhino sculpture or buying a rhino sculpture for their school to decorate. Interested artists, schools and organisations looking to sponsor a Rhino can find more information at www.taronga.org.au/wild-rhinos. Artist submissions ...
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$75000 to secure Lorne as regional arts hub
artsHub Australia (subscription)
Peter Lamell, President of Lorne Sculpture Biennale, lauded the announcement, saying, 'This will undoubtedly be a significant step for Lorne Sculpture Biennale, giving it strong exposure both within Australia and internationally.' Lamell also said that ...
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Science art prize takes a flight of fancy
NEWS.com.au
... has won the SA Museum's $50000 Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize. All except one of this year's category winners were also from South Australia, ...
Judith Brown wins Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize with lace ...
Herald Sun
Live: second Ashes Test, day two AUSTRALIA will look to take advantage of their ... 12ac2e1a-f015-11e2-af82-401bca060aec Sculpture: Nick Mount (Leabrook, ...
Science art prize takes a flight of fancy
Perth Now
All except one of this year's category winners were also from South Australia, ... Sculpture: Nick Mount (Leabrook, SA) for Fruit Salad #090312 (blown glass ...

Four new pieces for sculpture trail
Central Western Daily
... Dubbo via Cumnock and Yeoval since the sculptures were first erected. To see all the new sculpture additions to the Animals on Bikes trail visit www.centralwesterndaily.com.au and search for the photo gallery. nadine.morton@fairfaxmedia.com.au. Tweet.
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New honour for sculptor Terrance Plowright
Blue Mountains Gazette
The McClelland Survey is regarded as Australia's most prestigious sculptural exhibition and was attended by more than 70,000 people, attracting a record voter turnout for the People's Choice Award. Mr Plowright said winning the most number of votes in ...
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'Chubby Women Exhibit Gave Confidence to Plump Aussies
International Business Times AU
"Anybody can make a skinny woman, but people won't remember you. I wanted to make chubby women because it's unique and special" says world-renowned Chinese modern sculptor Xu Hongfei when asked why he created his "Chubby Women" exhibit.
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They're already a hit
Clare Northern Argus
“We had people stopping their cars to take photos while we were here installing the sculpture,” Riesling Trail chairman Allan Mayfield told Sunday's launch of the sculpture, which is on New Road, Clare, opposite the emergency services complex. ... Mr ...
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Lorne Sculpture Biennale festival starts to take shape
Ballarat Courier
Encompassing sound, installation, performance and multimedia, Ms Collins said the festival was the most diverse in Australia. “It has the most diverse selection of art forms because my definition of sculpture is very wide,” she said. More than 100 of ...
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Vandals - or clumsy revellers - damage Dale Chihuly glass sculpture in ...
Herald Sun
VANDALS - or clumsy revellers - have damaged a large glass sculpture by world-renowned artist Dale Chihuly in the foyer of a luxury Adelaide hotel. An incident ... BID goodbye to Australia's Favourite Family over a delicious Japanese noodle dish tonight.
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Shiva picture in book backs up looting theory
The Australian
... that an item was illegally removed from its country of origin. The picture should be sufficient evidence for India to request that the Art Gallery of NSW forfeit the sculpture without compensation under the UNESCO convention to which Australia is a ...
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Chinese sculptor brings 'Chubby women' exhibition to Australia
Radio Australia
These sculptures, they are changing an image, and changing the traditional perspective of art...There are many women with these kinds of figures in Australia, I want to give them confidence, a healthy, optimistic outlook, and represent very joyful ...
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Street party bound to go off
The Canberra Times
In World War II the fiendish Germans floated mines like these in Australia's and the world's waters. They washed up on beaches, making this sculpture's presence on the beach during Bermagui's famous Sculpture on the Edge (edge of the sea, edge of the ...
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The three acts
The Ridge News
Jenny Rickard, sculptor from the Association of Sculptors Victoria, after staying in Lightning Ridge in 2012 took home a piece of rock from the Ridge.

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