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Merlion
02-26-2006, 10:53 AM
This is a news report about a Melbourne artist who "claimed credit for embarking on the largest contemporary art installation in the world". Australia is overall a sparsely populated country with huge land mass. Clearly we can't do it in Singapore

Sculptor's boulder vision one for the birds

ONE of Australia's most successful but least-known sculptors, Andrew Rogers, might at last gain household recognition in his home town with the completion of two massive works on the grassy plains to Melbourne's south-west.

Rogers, of Melbourne, yesterday claimed credit for embarking on the largest contemporary art installation in the world with the completion of the two works.

One, in a clearing on the You Yangs near Lara, depicts a huge bird. Another, at Eastern Park in Geelong, replicates a bronze sculpture, Rhythms of Life, also by Mr Rogers, which can be seen on the Yarra bank near the Arts Centre.

Both are geoglyphs — images marked out with stones or boulders, which can be fully appreciated only when they are viewed from high above. [snip]

For full article, click here (http://www.theage.com.au/news/commonwealth-games/sculptors-boulder-vision-one-for-the-birds/2006/02/26/1140888749235.html).

fused
02-26-2006, 06:02 PM
"The challenge is always to use materials in a new and different way, and make them convey meaning and portray form in a manner that has not previously been seen."

Andrew Rogers (http://www.andrewrogers.org/index.jsp) is certainly prolific.