The horizontal line can be read as quickly as our to consume demands. We do not walk around things. We drive past them.
Read MoreSTATEMENTS AND TALKS
National Art School Sculpture Exhibition 1997
Opening Address, 14 September 1997
Read More"Contemporary Art is Dead"
Long Live the PC
The Post Contemporary
31 December 1999
Balmain Traffic Song
I wrote the poem "Traffic Song" in 1989 and I have been waiting for an opportunity to publish it since then.
Read MorePaul's Tower 2000 – the sculpture
I have made a new sculpture.
Read MorePaul's Tower 2000 – siting the sculpture
16 August 2000 Paul's Tower is a new work and represents my most recent foray into public sculpture. I am now searching for the site which is most appropriate to it.
Read MoreArchibald Prize 2001
These notes were written for the gallery guides at the NSW Art Gallery about my entry for 2001 Archibald.
Read MoreComing Down the Creek in Good Time 2001
Coming Down the Creek In Good Time is about what I imagine it was like before. It is like this still and It will be like this in the future.
Read MorePainting Mori Gallery 21 March – 7 April 2001
This exhibition of paintings represents the work that I have made over the last 18 months.
Read MoreCanberra talk: 'Outside Art'
The thing about sculpture and the thing about what I mostly use is that most of the material of the work is empty space and light.
Read MoreDoes Sculpture by the Sea advance the development of the serious core of sculpture?
I propose to identify not only how Sculpture by the Sea advances the development of those core values but also articulate a personal response.
Read MoreDocklands Sculpture
The life of a sculpture goes through a number of changes on the way to execution.
Read More'Continuum' Launch
A sculpture has to make a proposition. It has to speak on behalf of the time in which it is made.
Read MoreSculpture x The Sea Symposium What is Sculpture?
By now we have established that sculpture can be anything and everything. Our hearts and minds are open to all the opportunities that sculpture offers.
Read MoreFifty: A Trifle
Most of you here tonight will recognize me as Richard Goodwin. If I am not entirely myself, or if I look out of sorts, that's because today is the day, tonight is the night, that everything changes for good.
Read MoreSilence
What we need to get back to, which has been left silent and powerless for too long is... silence, that most abused, more often mute than sensible, entity, make fly again, and let it echo there and resonate, and not let it be interrupted.
Read MoreSculpture on the Edge Symposium Bermagui March 2010
Words, deeds and gestures serve to touch and in touching and being touched, we know we are alive.
Read MoreTen years at S X S
Patron's Dinner Talk at Claude's Wednesday, 2nd September
Read MoreMy take on the cats
In 2008, I was commissioned to make a work for The Cat Protection Society.
Read MoreTricycle – 12th August 2011
Once upon a time, is an introductory phrase employed to announce the beginning of a story. With it comes an anticipation of becoming spellbound, transfixed by what will follow.
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