Journal article
Stuart Ringholt: Time pressures
Artlink, Vol.40(1)
03/2020
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Abstract
Untitled (Clock) (2014) by the Perth-born, Melbourne-based artist Stuart Ringholt is modelled on an antique mantelpiece clock, stands three metres high, and completes a minute in forty-five seconds. I’ve only ever experienced the work as part of Today Tomorrow Yesterday: the almost absurdly lazy four-year-long exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia, on show to July 2020. Because of the sculpture’s prominence in a show catering mostly to drop-by tourists wandering around Circular Quay, I usually see the work incidentally, on my way to other shows in the same building. In my mind, at least until the exhibition closes later this year, Ringholt’s clock is a permanent public-art object, heavy with everyday context yet recurrently passing its 18-hour days as if in a zone of its own. With its present yet-alien headspace, Untitled (Clock) can’t help but invoke the artist himself, whose idiosyncrasies, however amiable, have been noted by just about every writer or curator who has worked with him.
Details
- Title
- Stuart Ringholt: Time pressures
- Creators
- Wes Hill - Southern Cross University, Creative Arts
- Publication Details
- Artlink, Vol.40(1)
- Identifiers
- 991013165711602368
- Academic Unit
- School of Arts and Social Sciences; Faculty of Business, Law and Arts; Creative Arts
- Resource Type
- Journal article