The line between art and architecture, and what makes urban spaces sing is something close to my heart, so I jumped at the chance to cover Concrete Culture - a show at COFA-UNSW’s Ivan Dougherty Gallery - on my show on FBI.

Richard Goodwin, one of the featured artists, is known as a sculptor, including a long run of public art on freeways. But a lot of his work, and definitely the work on show at IDG was hugely inspired by NYC artist Gordon Matta-Clark, and in some ways it is pretty subversive. With an ARC grant from the Howard Government, Goodwin mapped public spaces throughout the city: lift spaces, stairs, even the public toilets on the 37th floor of an investment bank.

Richard Goodwin at FBI

Film producer and distributor John L. Simpson was in later to talk about his film, Men’s Group - out in September - but also found time to discuss the balancing act of being in the business of art making, and making art.

Selling the show: John L. Simpson at FBI

I went to Firstdraft gallery on Wednesday night to check some emerging artists: Emma White, Tully Arnot (a student of Richard Goodwin’s, strangely enough) and The Elastic Band (Jo Cuzzi, Patsy Black and Amanda Cole).

We found time to fit in some music too:

Jungle Fever - Charlie Feathers
Thing Called Love - The Kahn Brothers
Cold Son - Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks
Serious Times - Gyptian
Tip My Canoe - Dengue Fever
Beef in a Box - Architecture In Helsinki
Hurry Up - Roman Revutski
A Love Supreme - Alice Coltrane
Make it So (feat. Michael Johnson) - Daedelus
The Suspense is Killing Me - Box 8 Bit
Karaoking - Plastic Palace Alice
Dancing on a Knife - Tennis
Ludey-do-dah - Mr Johnson’s Marching Boys
Bird - Grand Salvo
Dragonslayer - James Pants
Engine No. 999 - Western Synthetics
Lost in Low Cloud - Flying Foxes
What is a Life? - Youth Group