Tag Archives: Alex Seton

Alex Seton | “Blood, sweat and tears” AWM commemorative sculpture

15 February 2024 | Art Almanac

Alex Seton's 'Every Drop Shed in Anguish', is a delicate field of eighteen marble droplets to convey the tears of Australian military personnel and their families....

Alex Seton: Everything was Beautiful, and Nothing Hurt

2 January 2023 | Art Almanac

Here, Alex Seton presents a series of glass installations that contemplate memory, forgetting, and loss with the passing of time....

The Art of Protest

30 October 2021 | Art Almanac

Artists past and present respond to environmental and socio-cultural crises and call for change, from early modernists and social realists tackling worker’s rights in the 1940s to the poster art of the 1970s....

Safe Space

21 December 2020 | Art Almanac

Abdul-Rahman Abdullah, Alex Seton, Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro, David Cross, Franz Ehmann, Karla Dickens, Keg de Souza, Michelle Nikou, Rosie Miller, Tim Sterling and Will French use sculpture to explore different notions of space....

Montalto Sculpture Prize 2020

27 February 2020 | Art Almanac

The annual acquisitive Montalto Sculpture Prize showcases a kilometre-long trail of 33 permanent sculptures across the open spaces of the Montalto estate on the Mornington Peninsula....

Alex Seton: The Great Escape

27 February 2020 | Art Almanac

Alex Seton's 'The Great Escape’ presents works that tell of his parents’ escape to create their own idyllic world at Guineacor Creek....

HOME Bushfire Relief Art Auction Fundraiser

3 February 2020 | Art Almanac

Over 50 Australian contemporary artists have donated works for the HOME Bushfire Relief Art Auction Fundraiser including Abdul Abdullah, Tony Albert, Del Kathryn Barton, Rebecca Baumann, Sarah Contos, Tom Polo, Ben Quilty, Reko Rennie, Joan Ross and Alex Seton....

Contour 556 | Canberra’s public art biennial

26 September 2018 | Art Almanac

Curated by landscape architect Neil Hobbs, 60 Australian and international artists will participate in Canberra’s public art biennial, ‘Contour 556’ from 5 to 28 October 2018....

Alex Seton: The Pygmalion

13 October 2016 | Art Almanac

Seton considers the concepts of transformation and autonomy with a series of hybrid sculptures using thoughtfully selected materials and found objects such as furniture....

Paper Armada

28 October 2015 | Sara Sweet

'Paper Armada' is a reaction to the politicisation of the asylum seeker issue facing Australia. Seton addresses Australia's Operation Sovereign Borders, which he describes as, "... a crude political solution that ends the humanitarian responsibility of Australia just outside our territorial waters. We can do better."...