Used for storing innumerable gallons of fuel during the Second World War, a huge four-storey-down underground space has been regenerated into an immersive and endlessly explorable art and sculpture exhibition. Showcasing the wider-scale revamp of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, this flagship of the entire $334m (approx £200m) project sees tne once abandoned and unused underground bunker become a point of fascination and intrigue for anyone who visits. Opening in December for free in the Sydney area, AGNSW expects the Tank Gallery to reach peak visitor numbers within days.


A relative newcomer in the field, Sydney Modern is built next-door to the original art gallery and has enjoyed a huge boost for future investment over the past few years. Now with everything underway, the grand opening at Christmas will be the summer's highlight for art lovers and bored schoolchildren alike.


The Tank Gallery has been curated by Argentina's Adrián Villar Rojas. He's not giving anything away until the big day but we do know that the exhibit is called “The End Of Imagination”. An ominous and exciting title perhaps leans towards the realms of where our thinking can go, the edges of our ability to conjure and contrast. In the past Villar Rojas has drawn on the 4D passage of time in which his creations have been designed to decay and crumble. The entropy of art perhaps is intended to signify the eventual end of all things. Even our ideas, no matter how well entombed, will eventually fade away.


Creating his sculpture work in between Argentina and New York, Rojas had visited the actual site back in 2018 to get his bearings and assign the right use of space. The creation and then instalment works have been underway since this time, pandemic aside, and finally the work is on its way to our eyes. It's less time than you think until Christmas, (so do us a favour and grab something from Amazon to support our journal – cheers, you are the greatest!).


Via The Guardian

Lucid Leadership: Leading, Learning, Living In The Digital Renaissance

Your Workplace Walk-Through, Your Self-Employment Survival Guide, Your Playbook To Personal Progress.

Written by Alternative Fruit author, Rowan Blair Colver.
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Rowan B. Colver holds an Advanced NVQ Level 5 in Leadership and Management. He also is the owner and creator of Homunculus Media, a digital arts and humanities outlet with readers all over the world.


Lucid Leadership by Rowan B. Colver introduces serious and meaningful concepts in the field of leadership studies. By highlighting effective leadership and management techniques through empathic and ethical reasoning, readers are invited to learn and put into practice a multitude of inter and intra-personal skills.

The individual articles are as follows:

Making The Most Of Disruption With Crisis To Opportunity Mechanics

Starting From Scratch — How To Lead Yourself Out Of Unhappiness

Building A Mindset For Opportunity

Clarify Your Vision By Using These Self-Evaluation Guidelines

But Are You Really A Leader, Though?

Find Wholesome Growth With Holistic Leadership In The Five Dimensions Of Direction

How To Give Away Power And Get Back Results

Building A Viable Dream Of The Future
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Leading For Institutional Progress and Growth

Building An Attitude For Success

Leading With The Wisdom Of The Brave And Strong

Navigating Negativity With Positive Leadership

Sharpen The Pencil With These Cutting Questions

Your Network Is Your Team — Here’s How To Play With And Not Against Them

Make Me Better — Using Feedback To Orientate Our Next Steps

Why Is The Customer Always Right?

When Uncertainty Is King These Are The Rules

Love Your Company More Than Misery By Leading For Growth

Look! No Hands. How To Keep Your Team Motivated

Evaluate Your Values To Increase Your Worth

Empower Your People With Archetypal Leadership

Leading Diverse Teams Across Cultural And Generational Barriers

Consider Striking A Fair Balance Between Inclusion And Pressure

Beyond The Service — Take Home Team Values That Add Character

Seven Perspectives On Organised Progress

How To Recognise And Respond To Verbal Abuse

Leading For Confidence And Trust

Leading For Results With The Mechanics Of Motivation

Professional Habits That Make You Stand Out From The Crowd

When Leaders Get It Wrong — How To Prevent Losing Respect And Influence

What Is Psychological Safety And Why Is It Important?

Leading In The Marketplace With Innovation And Ingenuity

Listening To Your Team And Your Marketplace As A Leader

How Expert Communication Leads To Consistent Potential And Clear Results

Leading With The Blinkers Off By Acknowledging The Bigger Picture

How To Build Assertiveness From Confidence

How To Cultivate Trust In The Team Environment

How To Handle Criticism With Dignity

How To Encourage Leadership In Your Team

How To Communicate Confidence Even When You Don’t Feel It

Personality Traits That Lead To Opportunity

A Lot On Your Mind? You Still Need To Be Fully Present

Progress Talks Or Progress Walks, The Modern Multi-National Marketplace Needs Your Care

SMH Leadership Errors That Push People Away

Good Intentions? Avoid The Road To Hell — Leadership Red Flags That Mean Trouble For The Team

I Mean Business So How Do I Plan For It?

What Is The Best Way To Sell My Talents And Skills?

Managing Risks Through An Understanding Of The Customer

No One Likes An Advert So How Do I Promote My Services?

The Difference Between A Hustle And a Business? Branding

Fine Tune Your Service Through Market Analysis

Genuine Progress Is Made From Realistic And Reasonable Goals

How To Build Brand Power Through Reputation Management

Break Through The Ice With These Social Selling Skills

Identifying The Individual To Calibrate The Conversation

Recognising Stress And Poor Mental Health In Leadership Roles

Achieving Improvement and Adaptability Through Principled Self-Auditing

A Force For Good — Fitting Your Business In The Bigger Picture

How Using Precise Communication Can Boost All Aspects Of Your Progress

Be Careful Of These Marketing Fallacies That Prevent Respectful Trading

How To Garner Genuine Authority In Your Chosen Area

Sensible Small Steps And Social Skills For Successful Selling

How Leaders Use Negative Feedback To Improve And Then Persuade The Pyrrhonists

Building Bridges And Trust Across Cultural Boundaries

Leading Through Business In Socio-Diverse Communities And Market Ecologies

Now It’s Getting Personal — Using Social Media As A Public Figure

Beyond The Profile Page — Managing Reputation And Brand Power Through Social Media

How To Make Your Social Media Community Part Of Your Team With Leadership

​It’s Not About You It’s About Those You Serve — Intrapersonal Leadership Explained

Why Look At Art Scientifically?


Art is meant for pleasure, expression, and release. So why take a materialistic lens to this out-laying of personality and humanity? A qualitative approach usually contains more than enough to enjoy. For many of us, the processes and effects can be seen as important tools for not only statespersonship but also for humanitarian and commercial uses. If we imagine the mind as a crucible in chemistry or society as a test-tube, when art enters the equation the end result is observable and often measurable. We are not foreign to this concept, we all know music is medicine and art helps us to form our own ideas. If we are able to change the way people think and feel by applying something they enjoy, imagine where we could take this? Furthermore, the near democratisation of media in the online realm has provided each of us with a route to add our own ingredients to the human cocktail. What are these scientific lenses and where do we start? These three specific doctrines are separate yet reliant on one another to complete. An understanding of one leads to an understanding of the other.


Art Semiology


What does it all mean? A work of art contains many things that can be intellectually mined from the raw material. The meaning of art is subject to our interpretations however there are many forms of general consensus that influence our understanding of what we see. The symbols and signs in a work of art can be nameable things that we all recognise or they can be abstractions such as contours and contrasts. The fact that it is a certain way when produced within a certain period of time by a particular person can lead to a wide array of extrapolative conjecture. A series of critiques and accepted interpretations then make up the meta-language of the piece, providing an atmosphere of language that conveys the human eye.  
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Sociology Of Art


What does this say about society? What did society say about this? The way communities consume and decipher art can be related to the state of the people at the time. Their mindsets, priorities, moral structures, and levels of education can be surmised by the identifiable and meaningful choices they make in the art world. We can also look at how art influences society in positive and negative ways. Some artworks become protagonists and others become antagonists. In the middle are plenty more which neither made waves or broke them. The reasons behind these choices can be a fascinating insight into the minds of those who make them.

Sociology of the Arts: Exploring Fine and Popular Forms

Art Psychology


What does it do? How is the work affecting us and the general population by being what it is? A deeper look into the workings of the human mind can allow us to determine how a particular image or palette, a sound or a rhythm, can alter the way we think and feel mechanically. Our bodies are made of chemical reactions and these are influenced by the things we see, feel, and think. All the mind is a free-flowing entity of energy within you and the energy of art in its many forms can directly influence this flow of life. Words, pictures, sounds, and textures can all enter our awareness and send conscious and subconscious signals to the source of what makes us think.

The Psychology of Visual Art: Eye, Brain and Art
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