Placing not plonking: developers and public art

Developers need to do more than commission public art, they need to make it work with the city.
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Brooke Andrew, Local Memory, 2011, Central Park, Chippendale, Sydney. Image courtesy of Frasers Property Australia.

Barbara Flynn, Curatorial Advisor to Lend Lease for Barangaroo and City of Sydney said that artists around the world are keen to be part of the changing city.

‘There are a lot of extraordinary buildings coming to Sydney and that will all become evident in about three to five years. Sydney is now the place in the world where the most exciting things are being done in the public domain and the way I can know that is artists want to be part of it,’ she told a recent SAMAG seminar on public art.

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Gina Fairley is ArtsHub's Senior Contributor, after 12 years in the role as National Visual Arts Editor. She has worked for extended periods in America and Southeast Asia, as gallerist, arts administrator and regional contributing editor for a number of magazines, including Hong Kong based Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. She is an Art Tour leader for the AGNSW Members, and lectures regularly on the state of the arts. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW. Instagram: fairleygina