Kaldor Public Art Projects
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Kaldor Public Art Projects is an Australian arts organisation established in 1969 by John Kaldor AM. The organisation completes projects with international artists in public spaces, aiming to change the landscape of contemporary art in Australia with projects that resonate around the world.
The organisation’s first project, in 1969 was Christo and Jeanne-Claude
’s Wrapped Coast, which at the time was the largest single artwork ever made. by 2011, the organisation had brought 23 art projects to Australia, utilizing a variety of public spaces including Cockatoo Island
, Old Melbourne Gaol, and Sydney Park Brickworks. Kaldor Public Art Projects has worked with some of the worlds most groundbreaking artists including Gilbert & George
, Nam June Paik, Jeff Koons
, Urs Fischer
, Bill Viola
, Tatzu Nishi, and John Baldessari among others.
Kaldor Public Art Projects has been listed on the register of charitable organisations since 2004, and also contributes to the development of Australia’s cultural life through innovative education programs for primary, secondary and tertiary schools, as well as programs for the public.
1/ Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Sydney
Wrapped Coast,
28 October – 14 December,
Little Bay
Drawings and Collages,
22 October – 8 November,
Central Street Gallery
Melbourne
Wool Works,
1 – 30 November,
National Gallery of Victoria
2/Harald Szeemann
Artists –
John Armstrong,
Tony Bishop,
Robert Boynes,
Mike Brown (Melbourne),
Gunter Christmann,
Tony Coleing,
Aleks Danko
,
Margaret Dodd,
Neil Evans,
Ross Grounds,
Dale Hickey
,
Tim Johnson,
Peter Kennedy,
Warren Knight,
Nigel Lendon,
Ian Milliss,
Ti Parks,
Mike Parr
,
William Pidgeon
, Brett Whiteley
and Tony Wood (collaboration),
Guy Stuart,
Alec Tzannes,
Sydney,
29 April – 13 May,
Bonython Gallery
Melbourne,
4 June – 4 July,
National Gallery of Victoria
The Singing Sculpture, The Shrubberies Number 1,The Shrubberies Number 2
Sydney,
16 – 21 August,
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Melbourne,
29 August – 2 September,
National Gallery of Victoria
18 September
John Kaldor Fabricmaker showrooms, Sydney
Coloured Bread,
21 September – 4 October,
Art Gallery of New South Wales
5/ Charlotte Moorman
22–26 March 1976, exhibition and performances: Art Gallery of South Australia
, Adelaide; Adelaide Festival Theatre plaza; Adelaide Festival Theatre rooftop; Elder Park, Adelaide
1–11 April 1976, exhibition and performances: Art Gallery of New South Wales
, Sydney; Coventry Gallery, Sydney; Sydney Opera House forecourt
6/ Sol LeWitt
Sydney
All two part combinations of arcs from four corners, arcs from four corners, arcs from four sides, straight, not-straight & broken lines in four directions.,
March – July,
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Melbourne
Lines to points on a grid. On yellow: Lines from the center of the wall. On red: Lines from four sides. On blue: Lines from four corners. On black: Lines from four sides, four corners and the centre of the wall.
March – April
National Gallery of Victoria
7/ Richard Long
Broken Hill,
A straight hundred mile walk in Australia and A line in Australia,
December 1977
Melbourne
Bushwood Circle,
8 December 1977 – 7 January 1978,
National Gallery of Victoria
Sydney
Stone Line,
15 December 1977 – 5 February 1978,
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Mike Parr
,
Imants Tillers
,
Ken Unsworth.
New York,
15 April – 10 June 1984,
P.S.1
Washington D.C,
30 June – 26 August 1984,
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Perth,
22 September – 11 November 1984,
Art Gallery of Western Australia
Sydney,
1 December 1984 – 31 January 1985,
Art Gallery of New South Wales
9/Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Sydney,
Wrapped Vestibule,
Christo,
12 September – 25 November 1990,
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Perth,
Christo,
2 March – 14 April 1991,
Art Gallery of Western Australia
12 December 1995 – 17 March 1996,
Museum of Contemporary Art
, Sydney
11/Sol LeWitt
Wall Pieces,
30 July – 29 November,
Museum of Contemporary Art
, Sydney
12/ Vanessa Beecroft
VB40,
2, 4 & 5 August,
Museum of Contemporary Art
, Sydney
13/ Ugo Rondinone
Sydney,
Our Magic Hour,
15 June – 31 August 2003,
Museum of Contemporary Art
Melbourne,
Clockwork for Oracle,
28 January - 7 March 2004,
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
14/ Barry McGee
The stars were aligned…,
Metropolitan Meat Market, Melbourne
Water Wall Mural,
National Gallery of Victoria
,
28 October – 5 December
15/ Urs Fischer
Cockatoo Island Installation,
20 April – 3 June,
Cockatoo Island, Sydney Harbour
16/ Gregor Schneider
21 Beach Cells
Sydney,
28 September – 21 October 2007,
Bondi Beach
Herzlia, Israel,
13 – 20 June 2009,
Accadia Beach
17/ Bill Viola
Fire Woman,
Tristan’s Ascension (The Sound of a Mountain Under a Waterfall),
9 April – 23 May,
St Saviour’s Church, Redfern
22 October – 30 November ,
Old Melbourne Gaol
2 October 2009 – 14 February 2010,
Art Gallery Road, Art Gallery of New South Wales
20/ Stephen Vitiello
The Sound of Red Earth,
13 August – 12 September,
Sydney Park Brickworks, St Peters
21/ Bill Viola
Fire Woman,
Tristan’s Ascension (The Sound of a Mountain Under a Waterfall),
8 – 23 October 2010,
St Carthage’s Church, Melbourne
The Raft,
7 October 2010 – 20 February 2011,
Australian Centre for the Moving Image
, Melbourne
22/ Santiago Sierra
7 Forms Measuring 600 X 60 X 60 cm. Constructed to be held horizontally to a wall.,
20–28 November ,
Gallery of Modern Art
, Brisbane
8 – 30 January 2011,
Australian Museum
, William Street façade, Sydney
MOVE: Video art in schools includes work by Daniel Crooks, Shaun Gladwell
, The Kingpins
, Todd McMillan, Jess MacNeil, Tracey Moffatt
, TV Moore, Patricia Piccinini
, David Rosetzky, Grant Stevens, John Tonkin and Daniel von Sturmer.
Provided free of charge to public secondary schools, the resource is now present in all states across Australia, in over 1800 schools, and will be Australia-wide in 2011.
in Sydney from October 2009–February 2010.
, Richard Long
and Jeff Koons
.
The publication features past Kaldor Public Art Projects by Christo and Jeanne-Claude
, Richard Long
and Jeff Koons
as a way of engaging students with contemporary art practice and in particular to explore ‘public art’. Public Art, Teaching Excellence, the first in a series of publications on professional learning, will be distributed to Victorian schools in 2011.
, these Education notes for each Kaldor Public Art Project include the artist biography, project description, a thematic essay and quotes along with suggested issues for discussion and selected references.
The organisation’s first project, in 1969 was Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Christo and Jeanne-Claude were a married couple who created environmental works of art...
’s Wrapped Coast, which at the time was the largest single artwork ever made. by 2011, the organisation had brought 23 art projects to Australia, utilizing a variety of public spaces including Cockatoo Island
Cockatoo Island
Cockatoo Island may refer to the following places in Australia:*Cockatoo Island, New South Wales in Sydney Harbour, New South Wales...
, Old Melbourne Gaol, and Sydney Park Brickworks. Kaldor Public Art Projects has worked with some of the worlds most groundbreaking artists including Gilbert & George
Gilbert and George
Gilbert & George are two artists who work together as a collaborative duo. Gilbert Proesch and George Passmore have become famous for their distinctive, highly formal appearance and manner and their brightly coloured graphic-style photo-based artworks.-Early life:Gilbert Proesch was...
, Nam June Paik, Jeff Koons
Jeff Koons
Jeffrey "Jeff" Koons is an American artist known for his reproductions of banal objects—such as balloon animals produced in stainless steel with mirror finish surfaces....
, Urs Fischer
Urs Fischer
Urs Fischer is a Swiss contemporary artist living in New York.Fischer’s installations and sculptures have been exhibited in some group exhibitions and biennales worldwide, including Manifesta 3 and the Venice Biennale -External links:* * * *...
, Bill Viola
Bill Viola
Bill Viola is a contemporary video artist. He is considered a leading figure in the generation of artists whose artistic expression depends upon electronic, sound, and image technology in New Media...
, Tatzu Nishi, and John Baldessari among others.
Kaldor Public Art Projects has been listed on the register of charitable organisations since 2004, and also contributes to the development of Australia’s cultural life through innovative education programs for primary, secondary and tertiary schools, as well as programs for the public.
1/ Christo and Jeanne-ClaudeChristo and Jeanne-ClaudeChristo and Jeanne-Claude were a married couple who created environmental works of art...
1969
SydneyWrapped Coast,
28 October – 14 December,
Little Bay
Little Bay, New South Wales
Little Bay is a suburb in south-eastern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Little Bay is located 14 kilometres south-east of the Sydney central business district and is part of the local government area of the City of Randwick....
Drawings and Collages,
22 October – 8 November,
Central Street Gallery
Melbourne
Wool Works,
1 – 30 November,
National Gallery of Victoria
National Gallery of Victoria
The National Gallery of Victoria is an art gallery and museum in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1861, it is the oldest and the largest public art gallery in Australia. Since December 2003, NGV has operated across two sites...
2/Harald SzeemannHarald SzeemannHarald Szeemann was a Swiss curator and art historian.-Life:Szeemann was born in Bern. He studied art history, archaeology and journalism in Bern and Paris, and in 1956 he began working as an actor, stage designer and painter, as well as doing one-man shows. He started creating exhibitions in 1957...
1971
Artists –John Armstrong,
Tony Bishop,
Robert Boynes,
Mike Brown (Melbourne),
Gunter Christmann,
Tony Coleing,
Aleks Danko
Aleks Danko
Aleks Danko is one of Australia's foremost performance artists and sculptors.-External links:*...
,
Margaret Dodd,
Neil Evans,
Ross Grounds,
Dale Hickey
Dale Hickey
Dale Hickey is an Australian artist.Born in Melbourne, Hickey studied art at Swinburne College of Technology and then held various teaching positions including Senior Lecturer in painting at Phillip Institute of Technology from 1973-89, before devoting himself full-time to painting...
,
Tim Johnson,
Peter Kennedy,
Warren Knight,
Nigel Lendon,
Ian Milliss,
Ti Parks,
Mike Parr
Mike Parr
Mike Parr is an Australian performance artist and printmaker. Parr's works have been exhibited in Australia and internationally, including in Brazil, Cuba, France, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and the United States.-Early life:...
,
William Pidgeon
William Pidgeon
William Edwin Pidgeon, aka Bill Pidgeon and WEP, was an Australian painter who won the Archibald Prize three times....
, Brett Whiteley
Brett Whiteley
Brett Whiteley, AO was an Australian artist. He is represented in the collections of all the large Australian galleries, and was twice winner of the Archibald Prize...
and Tony Wood (collaboration),
Guy Stuart,
Alec Tzannes,
Sydney,
29 April – 13 May,
Bonython Gallery
Melbourne,
4 June – 4 July,
National Gallery of Victoria
National Gallery of Victoria
The National Gallery of Victoria is an art gallery and museum in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1861, it is the oldest and the largest public art gallery in Australia. Since December 2003, NGV has operated across two sites...
3/ Gilbert & George 1973
The Singing Sculpture, The Shrubberies Number 1,The Shrubberies Number 2
Sydney,
16 – 21 August,
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Art Gallery of New South Wales
The Art Gallery of New South Wales , located in The Domain in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, was established in 1897 and is the most important public gallery in Sydney and the fourth largest in Australia...
Melbourne,
29 August – 2 September,
National Gallery of Victoria
National Gallery of Victoria
The National Gallery of Victoria is an art gallery and museum in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1861, it is the oldest and the largest public art gallery in Australia. Since December 2003, NGV has operated across two sites...
4/ Miralda 1973
Coloured Feast18 September
John Kaldor Fabricmaker showrooms, Sydney
Coloured Bread,
21 September – 4 October,
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Art Gallery of New South Wales
The Art Gallery of New South Wales , located in The Domain in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, was established in 1897 and is the most important public gallery in Sydney and the fourth largest in Australia...
5/ Charlotte MoormanCharlotte MoormanMadeline Charlotte Moorman Garside was an American cellist and performance artist.She was born in Little Rock, Arkansas. She studied cello from age ten and won a scholarship to Centenary College where she took her B.A. in music in 1955. She received her M.A...
and Nam June PaikNam June PaikNam June Paik was a Korean American artist. He worked with a variety of media and is considered to be the first video artist....
1976
22–26 March 1976, exhibition and performances: Art Gallery of South AustraliaArt Gallery of South Australia
The Art Gallery of South Australia , located on the cultural boulevard of North Terrace in Adelaide, is the premier visual arts museum in the Australian state of South Australia. It has a collection of over 35,000 works of art, making it, after the National Gallery of Victoria, the largest state...
, Adelaide; Adelaide Festival Theatre plaza; Adelaide Festival Theatre rooftop; Elder Park, Adelaide
Elder Park, Adelaide
Elder Park is a public open space in the city of Adelaide, South Australia on the southern bank of the River Torrens and that is bordered by the Adelaide Festival Centre and North Terrace....
1–11 April 1976, exhibition and performances: Art Gallery of New South Wales
Art Gallery of New South Wales
The Art Gallery of New South Wales , located in The Domain in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, was established in 1897 and is the most important public gallery in Sydney and the fourth largest in Australia...
, Sydney; Coventry Gallery, Sydney; Sydney Opera House forecourt
Sydney Opera House
The Sydney Opera House is a multi-venue performing arts centre in the Australian city of Sydney. It was conceived and largely built by Danish architect Jørn Utzon, finally opening in 1973 after a long gestation starting with his competition-winning design in 1957...
6/ Sol LeWittSol LeWittSolomon "Sol" LeWitt was an American artist linked to various movements, including Conceptual art and Minimalism....
SydneyAll two part combinations of arcs from four corners, arcs from four corners, arcs from four sides, straight, not-straight & broken lines in four directions.,
March – July,
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Art Gallery of New South Wales
The Art Gallery of New South Wales , located in The Domain in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, was established in 1897 and is the most important public gallery in Sydney and the fourth largest in Australia...
Melbourne
Lines to points on a grid. On yellow: Lines from the center of the wall. On red: Lines from four sides. On blue: Lines from four corners. On black: Lines from four sides, four corners and the centre of the wall.
March – April
National Gallery of Victoria
National Gallery of Victoria
The National Gallery of Victoria is an art gallery and museum in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1861, it is the oldest and the largest public art gallery in Australia. Since December 2003, NGV has operated across two sites...
7/ Richard LongRichard Long (artist)Richard Long is an English sculptor, photographer and painter, one of the best known British land artists. Long is the only artist to be shortlisted for the Turner Prize four times, and he is reputed to have refused the prize in 1984...
1977
Broken Hill,
A straight hundred mile walk in Australia and A line in Australia,
December 1977
Melbourne
Bushwood Circle,
8 December 1977 – 7 January 1978,
National Gallery of Victoria
Sydney
Stone Line,
15 December 1977 – 5 February 1978,
Art Gallery of New South Wales
8/ An Australian Accent 1984
Artists:Mike Parr
Mike Parr
Mike Parr is an Australian performance artist and printmaker. Parr's works have been exhibited in Australia and internationally, including in Brazil, Cuba, France, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and the United States.-Early life:...
,
Imants Tillers
Imants Tillers
Imants Tillers is an Australian visual art artist, curator and writer. Born in Sydney in 1950, Tillers currently lives and works in Cooma, New South Wales. In 1973 he graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Science in Architecture , and the University Medal...
,
Ken Unsworth.
New York,
15 April – 10 June 1984,
P.S.1
Washington D.C,
30 June – 26 August 1984,
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Corcoran Gallery of Art
The Corcoran Gallery of Art is the largest privately supported cultural institution in Washington, DC. The museum's main focus is American art. The permanent collection includes works by Rembrandt, Eugène Delacroix, Edgar Degas, Thomas Gainsborough, John Singer Sargent, Claude Monet, Pablo...
Perth,
22 September – 11 November 1984,
Art Gallery of Western Australia
Art Gallery of Western Australia
The Art Gallery of Western Australia is a public gallery that is part of the Perth Cultural Centre, in Perth, Western Australia. It is located near the Western Australian Museum and State Library of Western Australia...
Sydney,
1 December 1984 – 31 January 1985,
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Art Gallery of New South Wales
The Art Gallery of New South Wales , located in The Domain in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, was established in 1897 and is the most important public gallery in Sydney and the fourth largest in Australia...
9/Christo and Jeanne-ClaudeChristo and Jeanne-ClaudeChristo and Jeanne-Claude were a married couple who created environmental works of art...
1990
Sydney,
Wrapped Vestibule,
Christo,
12 September – 25 November 1990,
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Art Gallery of New South Wales
The Art Gallery of New South Wales , located in The Domain in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, was established in 1897 and is the most important public gallery in Sydney and the fourth largest in Australia...
Perth,
Christo,
2 March – 14 April 1991,
Art Gallery of Western Australia
Art Gallery of Western Australia
The Art Gallery of Western Australia is a public gallery that is part of the Perth Cultural Centre, in Perth, Western Australia. It is located near the Western Australian Museum and State Library of Western Australia...
10/ Jeff Koons 1995
Puppy,12 December 1995 – 17 March 1996,
Museum of Contemporary Art
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
The Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, Australia is an Australian museum solely dedicated to exhibiting, interpreting and collecting contemporary art, both from across Australia and around the world...
, Sydney
11/Sol LeWittSol LeWittSolomon "Sol" LeWitt was an American artist linked to various movements, including Conceptual art and Minimalism....
1998
Wall Pieces,30 July – 29 November,
Museum of Contemporary Art
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
The Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, Australia is an Australian museum solely dedicated to exhibiting, interpreting and collecting contemporary art, both from across Australia and around the world...
, Sydney
12/ Vanessa BeecroftVanessa BeecroftVanessa Beecroft is an Italian contemporary artist living in Los Angeles.-Artistic practice:Beecroft's work is a fusion of conceptual issues and aesthetic concerns, focusing on large-scale performance art, usually involving live female models...
1999
VB40,
2, 4 & 5 August,
Museum of Contemporary Art
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
The Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, Australia is an Australian museum solely dedicated to exhibiting, interpreting and collecting contemporary art, both from across Australia and around the world...
, Sydney
13/ Ugo RondinoneUgo RondinoneUgo Rondinone New-York based, mixed-media artist whose works explore themes of fantasy and desire. Many of his pieces coax the viewer into a meditative state like the blurred, brightly-colored, concentric rings of his target-shaped paintings; or his strictly black and white landscapes of gnarled...
2003
Sydney,
Our Magic Hour,
15 June – 31 August 2003,
Museum of Contemporary Art
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
The Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, Australia is an Australian museum solely dedicated to exhibiting, interpreting and collecting contemporary art, both from across Australia and around the world...
Melbourne,
Clockwork for Oracle,
28 January - 7 March 2004,
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
The Australian Centre For Contemporary Art is a contemporary art gallery in Melbourne, Australia. The gallery is located on Sturt Street in the Melbourne Arts Precinct, in the inner suburb of Southbank....
14/ Barry McGeeBarry McGeeBarry McGee is a painter and graffiti artist. He is also known by monikers such as Ray Fong, Lydia Fong, Bernon Vernon, P.Kin, Ray Virgil, Twist and further variations of Twist, such as Twister, Twisty, Twisto and others.-Life and career:McGee graduated from El Camino High School in South...
2004
The stars were aligned…,Metropolitan Meat Market, Melbourne
Water Wall Mural,
National Gallery of Victoria
National Gallery of Victoria
The National Gallery of Victoria is an art gallery and museum in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1861, it is the oldest and the largest public art gallery in Australia. Since December 2003, NGV has operated across two sites...
,
28 October – 5 December
15/ Urs FischerUrs FischerUrs Fischer is a Swiss contemporary artist living in New York.Fischer’s installations and sculptures have been exhibited in some group exhibitions and biennales worldwide, including Manifesta 3 and the Venice Biennale -External links:* * * *...
2007
Cockatoo Island Installation,20 April – 3 June,
Cockatoo Island, Sydney Harbour
16/ Gregor SchneiderGregor schneiderGregor Schneider is a German artist, whose main area of work is constructed rooms. In 2001, he was awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale for his infamous work Totes Haus u r exhibited at the German Pavilion....
2007
21 Beach Cells
Sydney,
28 September – 21 October 2007,
Bondi Beach
Herzlia, Israel,
13 – 20 June 2009,
Accadia Beach
17/ Bill ViolaBill ViolaBill Viola is a contemporary video artist. He is considered a leading figure in the generation of artists whose artistic expression depends upon electronic, sound, and image technology in New Media...
2008
Fire Woman,
Tristan’s Ascension (The Sound of a Mountain Under a Waterfall),
9 April – 23 May,
St Saviour’s Church, Redfern
18/ Martin Boyce 2008
We Are Shipwrecked and Landlocked,22 October – 30 November ,
Old Melbourne Gaol
19/ Tatzu Nishi 2009
War and Peace and In Between,2 October 2009 – 14 February 2010,
Art Gallery Road, Art Gallery of New South Wales
Art Gallery of New South Wales
The Art Gallery of New South Wales , located in The Domain in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, was established in 1897 and is the most important public gallery in Sydney and the fourth largest in Australia...
20/ Stephen VitielloStephen VitielloStephen Vitiello is a visual and sound artist. Originally a punk guitarist he is influenced by video artist Nam June Paik who he worked with after meeting in 1991...
2010
The Sound of Red Earth,13 August – 12 September,
Sydney Park Brickworks, St Peters
21/ Bill ViolaBill ViolaBill Viola is a contemporary video artist. He is considered a leading figure in the generation of artists whose artistic expression depends upon electronic, sound, and image technology in New Media...
2010
Fire Woman,Tristan’s Ascension (The Sound of a Mountain Under a Waterfall),
8 – 23 October 2010,
St Carthage’s Church, Melbourne
The Raft,
7 October 2010 – 20 February 2011,
Australian Centre for the Moving Image
Australian Centre for the Moving Image
The Australian Centre for the Moving Image, or ACMI, is dedicated to the moving image in all its forms. It is located in Federation Square, in Melbourne, Australia, across four levels of the Alfred Deakin Building...
, Melbourne
22/ Santiago SierraSantiago SierraSantiago Sierra is a Spanish artist. He lives in Madrid.Sierra's most well-known works involve hired laborers completing menial tasks...
2010
7 Forms Measuring 600 X 60 X 60 cm. Constructed to be held horizontally to a wall.,20–28 November ,
Gallery of Modern Art
Queensland Gallery of Modern Art
The Queensland Gallery of Modern Art is part of the Queensland Cultural Centre at the South Bank area of South Brisbane. It holds most of Queensland Art Gallery's contemporary works, while also being the joint host to the current Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art...
, Brisbane
23/ John Baldessari 2011
Your Name in Lights,8 – 30 January 2011,
Australian Museum
Australian Museum
The Australian Museum is the oldest museum in Australia, with an international reputation in the fields of natural history and anthropology. It features collections of vertebrate and invertebrate zoology, as well as mineralogy, palaeontology, and anthropology...
, William Street façade, Sydney
MOVE: Video art in schools
MOVE: Video art in schools was produced in partnership with the New South Wales Department of Education and is a collection of video art works distributed to secondary schools for use in the classroom. Twelve leading Australian artists were commissioned for this program providing an education edition of their work solely for use in schools. The works are supplied on DVD and are packaged together with support materials that provide information on the artists, their works and the context of video art making. Student activities are also included, providing avenues for participation and creative engagement.MOVE: Video art in schools includes work by Daniel Crooks, Shaun Gladwell
Shaun Gladwell
Shaun Gladwell is an Australian video artist who has gained worldwide acclaim for his video art, painting and photographs.-Early life:The artist was born in Sydney in 1972 and graduated from Sydney University's Sydney College of the Arts...
, The Kingpins
The Kingpins
The Kingpins featuring Lorraine Muller - The Queen of Ska was a ska band from Montréal, Canada, signed to the Stomp Records label. The last Kingpins tour took place in 2004, after which the members of the band reformed under the name Lo and the Magnetics founded by Muller in order to reflect the...
, Todd McMillan, Jess MacNeil, Tracey Moffatt
Tracey Moffatt
Tracey Moffatt is an Australian artist who primarily uses photography and video.Born in Brisbane in 1960, she holds a degree in visual communications from the Queensland College of Art, graduating in 1982....
, TV Moore, Patricia Piccinini
Patricia Piccinini
Patricia Piccinini is an Australian artist and hyperrealist sculptor. Her art work came to prominence in Australia in the late 1990s. In 2003 she was selected as the artist to represent Australia at the Venice Biennale....
, David Rosetzky, Grant Stevens, John Tonkin and Daniel von Sturmer.
Provided free of charge to public secondary schools, the resource is now present in all states across Australia, in over 1800 schools, and will be Australia-wide in 2011.
InTouch contemporary art in Primary schools
Kaldor Public Art Projects has worked with the New South Wales Department of Education since May 2010 to develop InTouch: Contemporary Art in Primary Schools, their first resource for use on interactive whiteboards. Conceived as an engaging way to present their art projects, the 80-page pilot resource focuses on the recent 19th Kaldor Public Art Project, War and peace and in between, created by Japanese artist Tatzu Nishi at the Art Gallery of New South WalesArt Gallery of New South Wales
The Art Gallery of New South Wales , located in The Domain in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, was established in 1897 and is the most important public gallery in Sydney and the fourth largest in Australia...
in Sydney from October 2009–February 2010.
Public Art: Teaching Excellence
Based on its new e5 instruction model for quality teaching, the Victorian Department of Education and Early Childhood Development has developed a Kindergarten to Year 6 art education resource based on ‘Public Art’ and, in particular, on the past Kaldor Public Art Projects by Christo and Jeanne-ClaudeChristo and Jeanne-Claude
Christo and Jeanne-Claude were a married couple who created environmental works of art...
, Richard Long
Richard Long (artist)
Richard Long is an English sculptor, photographer and painter, one of the best known British land artists. Long is the only artist to be shortlisted for the Turner Prize four times, and he is reputed to have refused the prize in 1984...
and Jeff Koons
Jeff Koons
Jeffrey "Jeff" Koons is an American artist known for his reproductions of banal objects—such as balloon animals produced in stainless steel with mirror finish surfaces....
.
The publication features past Kaldor Public Art Projects by Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Christo and Jeanne-Claude were a married couple who created environmental works of art...
, Richard Long
Richard Long (artist)
Richard Long is an English sculptor, photographer and painter, one of the best known British land artists. Long is the only artist to be shortlisted for the Turner Prize four times, and he is reputed to have refused the prize in 1984...
and Jeff Koons
Jeff Koons
Jeffrey "Jeff" Koons is an American artist known for his reproductions of banal objects—such as balloon animals produced in stainless steel with mirror finish surfaces....
as a way of engaging students with contemporary art practice and in particular to explore ‘public art’. Public Art, Teaching Excellence, the first in a series of publications on professional learning, will be distributed to Victorian schools in 2011.
Art projects education kits
Produced by the Art Gallery of New South WalesArt Gallery of New South Wales
The Art Gallery of New South Wales , located in The Domain in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, was established in 1897 and is the most important public gallery in Sydney and the fourth largest in Australia...
, these Education notes for each Kaldor Public Art Project include the artist biography, project description, a thematic essay and quotes along with suggested issues for discussion and selected references.