How Public Sculpture Can Reshape Power and Identity | Thomas J Price: Ancient Feelings
Thomas J Price’s new work, Ancient Feelings, reimagines public sculpture as a platform for reshaping power, status, and identity. Drawing on childhood visits to institutions like the British Museum, he critiques the historic use of sculpture to convey authority. The piece fuses a fictional, historically‑referenced figure with gestures and emotions observed in everyday people. It will debut as part of the MCA’s Tallawoladah Lawn Commission, inviting audiences to question who is memorialized in public art.
Yasmin Smith: Salt, Sandstone & Coal | Elemental Life
Yasmin Smith’s latest installation, “Salt, sandstone & coal,” debuted during the 2018 Biennale of Sydney on Cockatoo Island, using locally sourced raw materials to narrate the region’s colonial and industrial past. The work references early settlers’ communal salt‑harvesting along the harbour,...
Environmental Art – Yasmin Smith on Rivers and Deep Time | Elemental Life
Yasmin Smith’s talk spotlights a trio of environmental installations—Manchester Driftwood, Seine River Basin, and Drowned River Valley—each using riverine contexts to interrogate humanity’s relationship with water and deep time. The works, now part of the Museum of Contemporary Art’s collection,...
Yasmin Smith Recreates the Dinosaur Extinction in Glaze | Yasmin Smith: Elemental Life
Yasmin Smith’s latest project, "Elemental Life," translates the chemistry of the Chicxulub impact into a series of ceramic glazes, turning a planetary catastrophe into a tactile visual narrative. Collaborating with Curtin University geochemist Professor Kliti Grice, Smith received fifteen core samples...