Reviews
Review of the Year
Exhibition review Reflections on a year of contemporary art in Tasmania.
Art, Architecture & the Environment
Subject/ Object
Exhibition review Subject/Object Arthouse
Tasmania
October 1991
Art, Architecture & the Environment
Refocusing the Gaze
Review of the First Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Sept - Dec 1993. The rationale for selection, search for different voices from each country, enormous diversity, some common threads eg experience of colonisation; politicisation; role of religion in some countries. Dramatic performances by Dadang Christanto (Indonesia) and S. Chandrasekeran (Singapore). Theme of environmental pollution also appears in several works.
Contemporary Arts of the Region: SE Asia & Australia
Making Asian Art Accessible to Westerners
Review of book 'Modern Art in Thailand, 19th and 20th Centuries'
By Apinan Poshyananda
Published by OUP, Singapore, 1992.
An exemplary study of this period tracing traditional practice, regional categories, ethnic divisions, foreign arrivals, and the advent of modernism and westernisation in art and life. The reader gains insight into Buddhism and social structures including kingship in the course of looking at this complex history.
Contemporary Arts of the Region: SE Asia & Australia
Streams of Indonesian Art and Perceptions of Paradise
'Streams of Indonesian Art from Pre-historic to Contemporary'
Published by the Committee of the Festival of Indonesia, Jakarta, 1991.
A series of essays by Indonesian writers.
'Perceptions of Paradise: Images of Bali in the Arts'
By a US scholar Garrett Kam,
Publishedby the Museum Neka, Bali, 1993.
Both publications help to fill the gaps in written art history. 'Streams' tries to sanitise the history of the oppression of artists by political forces and ongoing social inequities.
Contemporary Arts of the Region: SE Asia & Australia
Confess and Conceal: Asia/Australia Exhibition at AGWA
Review of Confess and Conceal a group show of 4 Asian and 7 Australian artists organised by the Art Gallery of WA and touring South East Asia. Catalogue has essay by Apinan Poshyananda discussing Thai women artists but fails to provide background to the other Asian works or whether Australia shares the sense of reorientation being experienced in Asia or whether it can be thought of as part of Asia.
Contemporary Arts of the Region: SE Asia & Australia
Testing the Waters
The First Asia Pacific Triennial, at the Queensland Art Gallery was not only a large imaginatively curated exhibition from many Asian countries and Australia but a ground-breaking conference Identity, Tradition and Change: in which historians, curators, administrators and artists all had equal billing. Well funded, it was able to bring hundreds of people together to enjoy as well as critique the event, and feedback was sought to inform the future form of the event.
Contemporary Arts of the Region: SE Asia & Australia
The Art and Craft Centre Story
Review of The Art and Craft Centre Story Volume I by Felicity Wright and Frances Morphy. This is an exhaustive survey of Indigenous art centres examining every aspect of their operations. The appalling conditions under which the staff of these centres work bely the extraordinary success of these centres. The authors recommend adoption of a policy of coordinated help with human resources.
No access, Terry Summers Head-on, Kim Demuth Full stop, Sam Sexton
Soapbox Gallery, Brisbane 1-27 June 2001
Genius of Place: The Work of Kathleen Petyarre
9 May - 22 July 2001 Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Between Phenomena
curated by Raymond Arnold Plimsoll Gallery Centre for the Arts Hobart 30 March - 22 April 2001
Winterbodies
Agnieska Golda, Zofia Sleziak, Stephanie Radok, Frances Phoenix, India Flint, Lisa Harms, Julie Robinson Wayville Showgrounds Adelaide 17-24 June 2001
Creating a Place: Western Australian Women Artists 1920 - 1960
Art Gallery of WA 12 April - 4 June 2001
Art of the Sacred Heart
Arts Project Australia Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide 31 January - 25 February 2001
Tense Past - Narratives of Gaps and Silences
Julie Gough Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart 17 - 23 February 2001
Promised Land: Nien Schwarz
Perth International Arts Festival 2001 event The Church Gallery, Claremont
Lace - Contemporary Perspectives
Anne Farren (Aus), Suzumi Noda (Japan), Pam Gaunt (Aus), Michael Brennand-Wood (UK), Pilar Rojas (Spain) CRAFTWEST Centre for Contemporary Craft Perth International Arts Festival event. 7 February - 24 March
Touring to Kalgoorlie Art Centre July 2001 Interstate and regionally in 2002
Touring to Kalgoorlie Art Centre July 2001 Interstate and regionally in 2002
Geoffrey Goldie: A Survey Show: 1968-2000
Drawings, Paintings, Etchings,Set & Costume Designs Gipps Street Gallery, Melbourne Nov/Dec 2000
Ruth Johnstone, Glen Walls, Lisa Young and John Walker
Modelling Space RMIT Project Space & Space Room, Melbourne 30 June - 18 July 2003
Story Place: Indigenous Art of Cape York and the Rainforest
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane 26 July - 9 November 2003
The Sea
Photographic Works by Simon Cuthbert Despard Gallery, Hobart Tasmania 19 September - 8 October 2003
The Barcelona Studio: Fragments of a Brief History
Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania 5 September - 5 October 2003
India Flint, Stephanie Radok, Honor Freeman and Sarah CrowEST, Roy Amanda, Andrew Best and Matthew Bradley
Built! An ephemeral public art project Adelaide Festival Centre 4 - 24 August 2003 I've Been Busy Adelaide Festival Centre 30 July - 6 September 2003
FLUX: Uncertain States: New Art from Western Australia
Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, WA 17 August - 15 October 2003
Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri
Art Gallery of South Australia 31 October 2003 - 26 January 2004 Curated by Vivien Johnson
This was the Future, the McClelland Sculpture award and Sculpture at RMIT during the Jomantas Years 1961-1987
RMIT Gallery, Storey Hall, Melbourne 21 July - 13 September 2003 McClelland Art Gallery, Langwarrin 4 November 2003 - 8 March 2004 Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen 4 October - 7 December 2003
Primavera 2003
Exhibition of Young Australian Artists Museum of Contemporary Art 17 September - 30 November 2003
Counterbalance
Graduating Fine Arts Student Exhibition Queensland College of Art Southbank Campus Studios Brisbane 19 - 22 November 2003
To Begin With: Five Tasmanian Artists
Bett Gallery, North Hobart 28 November - 24 December 2003 Curated by Richard Wasteil
The Queensgate Car Park
The Australian Centre for Concrete Art Henderson Street, Fremantle Launched on December 2003
Kurtal
Nyilpirr Spider Snell Raft, 3 - 20 December 2003 Fitzroy Fusion, Mangkaja artists Raft II, Darwin 6 - 20 December 2003
4x4
Vernon Ah Kee, Jewel MacKenzie, Kim Demuth, Annie Hogan Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane 12 June - 12 July 2003
B-Sides
Peers Project: Lucy Griggs, Chris Handran, Gia Mitchell, Sebastian Moody and Martin Smith Studio 11, at Metro Arts, Brisbane
Habitat: Callum Morton
Contemporary Projects Gallery The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne 31 May - 17 August 2003
Points of Entry
An exhibition of new media art CAST Gallery & Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart 7 - 29 June 2003
If All We Have is Each Other, That's OK
Darren Sylvester William Mora Galleries, Melbourne 5 - 28 June 2003
The Rodney Gooch Collection: A Major Survey of the Art-making of the Utopia Artists from the Late 1970s to 1998
Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute 27 June - 17 August 2003
Australian Paper Art Awards 2001
Artspace, Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide December 2001 - February 9, 2002
ConVerge: Where Art Meets Science
2002 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art Art Gallery of South Australia 1 March - 28 April 2002
Spirit Country: Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art from the Gantner Myer Collection
19 April - 16 June 2002 Brisbane City Gallery
Woomera: Juan Davila
Kalli Rolfe Contemporary Art at Fortyfivedownstairs Gallery Melbourne March 26 - 10 April 2002
The First Decade: Mark Howlett Foundation
1 December 2001 - 17 March 2002 Art Gallery of Western Australia
Deficiency - Installation and paintings
Christian Flynn Soapbox Gallery, Brisbane 21 March - 4 April 2003
Light Black: Catherine Truman, Robin Best, Sue Lorraine
JamFactory, Adelaide 1 March - 4 May 2003 Asialink tour to National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo and Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
Drought and Fire
Paintings, drawings and installation, Wendy Teakel Stella downer Fine Art, Sydney 18 March - 17 April 2003
Fieldwork
Fieldwork Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia Federation Square Melbourne 26 November 2002 - mid February 2003
William Yang: Miscellaneous Obsessions
William Yang miscellaneous obsessions Stills Paddington, Sydney 16 October - 16November 2002
Anthony Gormley: Inside Australia
Anthony Gormley: Inside Australia Lake Ballard WA January - March Perth International Arts Festival
Bronwen Sandland: Housecosy
Housecosy by Bronwen Sandland one of 3 components for Cul de Sac, a Canberra Contemporary Art Space project 19 October - 3 November 2002 82 De Burgh Street, Lyneham ACT
Good Vibrations: The Legacy of Op Art in Australia
Good Vibrations: The Legacy of Op Art in Australia Curated by Zara Stanhope Heide Museum of Modern Art 5 October - 24 November 2002
Jan Flook, Recycology
Jan Flook, Recycology Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts 11 October - 10 November 2002
David Keeling: Narrative, Sweet Narrative
Narrative, Sweet Narrative David Keeling Bett Gallery, Hobart
Plans and Disasters and Modern Love Pictures
Plans and disasters Matt Bate, Andrew Best, Louise Flaherty, Chris Flanagan, Viv Miller 1 - 17 November 2002 modern love pictures Matt Bate, Bianca Barling, Jim Strickland, Arran Steirman, Katrina Simmons, Mimi Kelly & Clint Woodger December 2002 Downtown, 27 Hindley Street, Adelaide
Fiona Lee: Hard Copies
Fiona Lee Hard Copies FOYeR Installation Space, Salamanca Place Hobart 14 - 29 November 2002
Art Built-in South Bank
Art Built-In South Bank South Bank Parklands 13 September - 17 November 2002