Liberals

a new Government in Tassie may change the landscape...just voted in yesterday..the times they are a changing...how long do you think it will be before they 're-do' the education system, did nobody tell them that they are, in my (humble) view, getting so much of it right?!  Any system that supports (or doesn't stop!!) somebody like Graham Speight to develop the Big Picture School has to be commended....

same old same old...

Arts Tasmania, lovely people, great aspirations, same old battle ..... met a lovely woman - Julie Payne  - from the Public Art Scheme, arts@work section, who is looking after the programme just now whilst her colleague Nick is on leave.  They have 2% for art for all publicly funded buildings and my interest is in the interpretation of the Big Picture School at Montrose Bay High School.  There are two artists commissioned to work on the Creativity Courtyard and the wider school. It seems issues can arise with the architects and not the schools, in terms of vision, risk and all the rest that we know ... interesting ... but as this programme has been on going in Tassie for 30 years they have quite an archive of works around the state.  Our very own Stevie Hurrell collaborated with John Vella on a Hydro Tasmania, Corporate Art Scheme Commission, to celebrate 25 years of the Public Art Scheme.  That must have been quite an honour for an international artist to be commissioned to mark a very 'local' success story!

Also met the officer who has carved out AIR - the artist in residence programme in schools - "not workshops, not teaching across the curriculum, not social work or care taking", but engaged with students and staff in their own practice.  "Modelling" the life of an artist through open studios, seminars and discussions with students.  Good model. And in parallel with the other models on the 'market' (such as workshops etc,) and quality teaching and learning, then young people will get the best of it all, as I hope we have demonstrated in Dumfries and Galloway.

Off to the Tasmanian Museum, hire a bike and find CAST

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Contemporary Art Spaces Tasmania (CAST)
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