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| Review by Peter Dunn for Studio International re:
the New Contemporaries, 'Live Work' Show. "At best it manifests a real attempt to transcend the short-comings and introverted attitudes promoted in art education and the established art ethos as a whole". He goes on to say," Much of the work reflected the difficulties of working in an area which suffers from lack of any critical, rigorous or considered attitude in art schools and from an 'anything goes' stylistic inheritance from avant-gardism. This 'ethic', which encourages 'bohemianism' but paradoxically requires academic fulfilment of 'more serious' individual requirements, creates a schism, extrovert in gesture but introverted in its concerns, which pre-empts the initial motivation for expanding the scope of communication." In his review Dunn goes on to say: "Outside, Terry Duffy was beginning a week-long transformation of the yard adjoining the gallery, using lots of materials including piles of rubble, wood, some interesting weeds, grass, sand and gravel. He starts form the premise that trust in the intuitive faculty over prolonged periods develops one's sensitivity, encouraging the imagination and at the same time anchoring it to something concrete : the transformation of an environment. The piece developed well, especially in the earlier stages when one could distinguish the feint beginnings of order in the anarchy. However it reached a point when the imposition became too marked, inducing him to abandon it to erosion by people and events in order to break down its formal finality, an act he felt warranted further investigation of the behavioural interaction between people and the environment"
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