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Mildura Triennials marked a phase in the increasing public role of curators as mediators between artist and audience. This transition encouraged actively entrepreneurial taste-making," through a change from an award to an exhibition by invitation in a selection by
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took place between 1961 and 1988. Inaugurated in 1961 as the
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Thomas (Tom) McCullough, directed the triennials until his controversial resignation in 1978, following which the
Mildura Arts Centre and the Mildura City Council recommenced the triennials from 1982, directed by Michael Sourgnes, though at a smaller scale. By then there were alternate national,
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parks for the opening ceremonies. Many left immediately afterwards, but for them as much as for those who stayed, or came later, the
Triennial was a kind of pilgrimage, an opportunity to take stock of what is happening in Australian sculpture today.
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Triennial, except in 1975, when it was rescheduled to coincide with Arts Victoria 75 and the title temporarily changed to Mildura Sculpture Exhibition. In 1975 Tom McCullough, introduced a sub-title,
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