Comments on: Gallery spin continues

By: Phil Walcott

Phil Walcott — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 00:17:39 +0000

Differently abled access???
Where does a “predicted 53,000 visitors annually” come from? Algorism calculations?
What other concept designs were considered? People’s Choice???
Territory Labor stumbling from one disaster to another … shame really. They could have had it all (integrity included).

By: Charlie Carter

Charlie Carter — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 00:51:31 +0000

The video presentation shown on the ABC site is a piece of fanciful digital propaganda.
It is about as far from “a design” as I can imagine.
The little bits of detail I could make out would seem to provide very little space to actually hang visual art work.
You are correct Alex, this is the typical NT Government “development by wishful thinking”.
I would love to see the calculations that produced the numbers and dollars touted.
And pigs might fly!
Think of a number, multiply by ten, and then double it for good measure.
And we are back to the question of why the Gunner Government insisted on this site?
Against the recommendation of the expert panel.
There is at least some similarity between the Desert Park precinct site and the alternative Desert Knowledge precinct.
And the risible “rejuvenate the Mall” is all we’ve got.
And Paech is pushing this crap!
Shame on you Chansey!

By: Ralph Folds

Ralph Folds — Sun, 30 Jul 2023 23:34:04 +0000

The building represents a Coprolite, the fossilised faeces of animals that lived millions of years ago.

By: Frank Baarda

Frank Baarda — Sun, 30 Jul 2023 09:07:17 +0000

The government isn’t as silly as we think. I suspect the proposed building is a nuclear bunker masquerading as an art gallery.

By: Alex Nelson

Alex Nelson — Sun, 30 Jul 2023 00:31:19 +0000

First impression is that the proposed NAAG gallery takes the cake as one of the most revolting design concepts I’ve ever seen.
It is a temple to conceit and arrogance on a scale that is absolutely befitting of a jurisdiction that promotes itself way beyond what is remotely credible.
However, it fits brilliantly in the long march of grand projects and designs that dishonourably pockmark the long discredited experimental failure that calls itself “NT self-government” – the casinos, major hotels, Yulara, the Alice Springs Desert Park, the Desert Knowledge precinct, the railway to Darwin, ad nauseam.
Not one of these major projects have come close to delivering the visionary economic bonanza touted as essential for underpinning the NT’s development. Not one.
There is a noteworthy shift in the demographics of the Territory’s politics that foster these loss-making ventures.
In the past such projects were characteristic of a long-dominant CLP government comprised of a majority of members who came from interstate or overseas; but these days the exact same style of grandiose, over-hyped big-ticket projects are the hallmark of a long-entrenched Labor government featuring many members born and educated here in the Territory.
Historically, there is no real distinction to be noted between the two sides of NT politics.
Equally, the madness remains the same – as the old saying goes, the definition of insanity is when the same method is used repeatedly while expecting a different result each time.

By: Margaret Opie

Margaret Opie — Sat, 29 Jul 2023 21:44:03 +0000

How can such an ugly building house an art collection?
It matches the Supreme Court as an affront to the Alice Springs environment and gives a very good reason to situate this monstrosity well out of town.

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 29 Jul 2023 09:03:52 +0000

The cultural welcoming circle will look interesting considering the cultural custodians aren’t welcoming the gallery to this “culturally inappropriate site”. Also I saw Mr Paech said he wanted the gallery to be a place of truth-telling, that will also be interesting when he tells us the truth of why the gallery has to be built at this site despite the recommendations of the government’s expert panel and the opposition of so many in town including, of course, the Mparntwe-arenye custodians.

By: Evelyne Roullet

Evelyne Roullet — Sat, 29 Jul 2023 08:13:49 +0000

I am with you 100%. It looks like a medieval castle in fact like the Château Gaillard of my youth (=)

By: Frank Baarda

Frank Baarda — Sat, 29 Jul 2023 08:06:57 +0000

Thank you Maya. I was scratching my head as to how to describe the depicted monstrocity.
Albeit unfair to elephants, elephantine will do quite nicely.

By: Mazri

Mazri — Sat, 29 Jul 2023 06:24:59 +0000

What an absolute eyesore! It doesn’t blend into the landscape at all! It’s the same as the new Court House. An eyesore that doesn’t get used.