Reviews
A Dialogue with Richard Grayson
Exhibition review An Interrupted Dialogue. One of the first international experimental art exhibitions to be shown outside Hungary since the end of World War 2. Grayson worked with Suzy Meszoly of the Soros Fine Art Documentation Centre of Budapest in 1988 during the time when changes were sweeping through Central Europe.
Museums on the Edge
Spirit of Enquiry Refreshing
Exhibition review Moet and Chandon Touring Exhibition
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Hobart
12 February - 22 March 1992 and touring
Museums on the Edge
Testing the Meaning of Heritage
Exhibition review The Heritage of Namatjira
Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute
Adelaide South Australia
November - December 1991
Curated by Angela Tidmarsh and JVS Megaw on behalf of the Flinders University of South Australia
Catalogue edited by Ruth Megaw.
Museums on the Edge
Ordinary Otherness
Exhibition review Unfamiliar territory: Second Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art 1992
Art Gallery of South Australia
28 February - 19 April 1992
Museums on the Edge
Field of Vision by Janine Burke
Book review Field of Vision:A Decade of Change: Women's Art in the Seventies
By Janine Burke
Penguin Australia 1990
RRP $40.00
Art & Education
Jeffrey Smart: Paintings of the 70s and 80s by John McDonald
Book review Jeffrey Smart: Paintings of the 70s and 80s
By John MacDonald
Craftsman House 1990
RRP $65
Art & Education
A Guide to Identifying Australian Architecture by Richard Apperly
Book review A Pictorial Guide to Identifying Australian Architecture: Styles and Terms from 1788 to the Present by Richard Appleby, Robert Irving and Peter Reynolds with photographs by Solomon Mitchell Angus and Robertson 1989 RRP $39.95
Art & Education
Papunya Tula: Art of the Western Desert by Geoffrey Bardon
Book review Papunya Tula: Art of the Western Desert
By Geoffrey Bardon
McPhee Gribble 1991
RRP $50.
Art & Education
Lyndal Jones Prediction Piece 10
Exhibition review Installation by Lyndal Jones
University of South Australia Art Museum
30 May - 22 June 1991
Art & Education
Film Theory Seminars
Exhibition review The Power of Perversion, Film Theory Seminars
Media Resource Centre Adelaide South Australia
April 8 - May 13 1991
Art & Education
Dadang Christanto
Exhibition review an Installation of the work by Dadang Christanto Contemporary Indonesian Artist
University of South Australia Art Museum
August 1 - 31 1991
Art & Education
Ginger Riley and Ian Abdulla
Exhibition review (indigenous artists) Koori Perspective
12 May - 31 June 1991
Ian Abdulla
9 June - 31 July 1991
Ginger Riley Munduwalawala
7 July - 31 August
Tandanya Adelaide South Australia
Art & Education
Gavin Blake
Exhibition review Gavin Blake: Immaculate Projections
North Adelaide School of Art Gallery
23 July - 8 August 1991
Art & Education
Torso, Group Show: Richard Baxter Smith and Bill Doyle
Exhibition review Torso: Gray Street Workshop
25 July - 18 August 1991
Bite: Richard Baxter Smith and Bill Doyle Artzone
31 August - 11 September 1991
Art & Education
Helen Taylor, Judith Dinham, Glen Phillips, Jill Kempson
Exhibition review Helen Taylor See Saw: Part One Delaney Galleries
4 - 26 June 1991
Judith Dinham and Glen Phillips: Nothing More Real to Me, Leaning on Images
Perth Galleries
28 April - May 15 1991
Jill Kempson: Threading Light and Land in Tuscany
Galerie Duseldorf
17 May - 9 June 1991
Art & Education
Jokes and Jelly
Exhibition review Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery
University of Western Australia
April 21 - May 26 1991
Simon Gevers: 'perf' Steven Holland: 'a plaintive "Plee-erk"'
Art & Education
The Body in Question: Jewellery
Exhibition review The Body in Question: Jewellery and Metalsmithing Symposium
University of Tasmania Launceston
July 1991
and related exhibition programme
Art & Education
South of No North
Exhibition review Dick Bett Gallery
Hobart Tasmania
17 July - early August 1991
Richard Flanagan Curator
Art & Education
Pacific Arts Association Symposium
Conference review Pacific Arts Association
5th International Symposium
University of South Australia
Aboriginal and Torres Strait and Pacific Islander Visual Arts Week - Tandanya Aboriginal Cultural Centre
Adelaide
12 -17 April 1993
Dimensions: Sculpture in Australia
Exhibitions for PAA
Written with Vincent Megaw Visual Arts Exhibitions and the Fifth Pacific Arts Association Symposium Great colour photos of works by indigenous Australians.
Dimensions: Sculpture in Australia
Locations
Exhibition review Location: Contemporary photo-based work from Australia University of South Australia Art Museum
4-27 March 1993
Dimensions: Sculpture in Australia
Gerry Wedd
Exhibition Review Scratch Works
By Gerry Wedd
Jam Factory Centre of Art and Design
February 1993
Dimensions: Sculpture in Australia
Bronwyn Platten and Cecelia Clarke
Exhibition review Possible Clouds: Bronwyn Platten and Cecelia Clarke Experimental Art Foundation
Adelaide South Australia
12 February - 14 March 1993
Dimensions: Sculpture in Australia
The Advantages of Isolation
Exhibition Review The Advantage of Isolation
Festival of Perth Artplace
Claremont Western Australia
28 January - 6 March 1993
and at the Blaxland Gallery
Sydney New South Wales
11 February - 7 March 1993
Dimensions: Sculpture in Australia
Carol Rudyard
Exhibition review Point of View: Carol Rudyard selected works 1968 -1992
Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery
Perth Western Australia
29 January - 28 March 1993
Dimensions: Sculpture in Australia
To the Surface
Exhibition Review To the Surface - Contemporary Landscape Plimsoll Gallery
Centre for the Arts Hobart Tasmania
10 - 24 January 1993
Curator Ray Arnold
Dimensions: Sculpture in Australia
Pat Brassington, Edward Colless, David McDowell
Exhibition review Book of Jonah 1932
Pat Brassington, Edward Colless, David McDowell
Private House, Mt Stuart, Hobart
May 1993
Dimensions: Sculpture in Australia
Craft in Society by Noris Loannou
Book Review Craft in Society: An Anthology of Perspectives Noris Ioannou (ed.)
Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1992
312 pp, RRP $24.95
Dimensions: Sculpture in Australia
Juggling the Roles
Exhibition Review: An Art and Working Life Project
Hosted by the Working Women's Centre Prospect Gallery
South Australia
March 1991
Arts in a Multicultural Australia
Failsafe Opera
Exhibition Review: Performance Installation by Andrew Petrusevics and Chris Gaston
Adelaide Univsersity Union Art Gallery
7 - 21 March 1991
Arts in a Multicultural Australia
Luk Luk Gen!
Exhibition Review: Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute Adelaide South Australia
November 1990 - June 1991
Arts in a Multicultural Australia
Archetypal Strategies
Exhibition Review: Josie Starrs, Margaret Worth, Fay Poole and Barbara Zerbini
Experimental Art Foundation
Adelaide South Australia
June 1990 and touring to regional galleries.
Arts in a Multicultural Australia
Festival of Perth Visual Arts Conference
Exhibition Review
The Emperor's New Clothes
March 1-3 1991
Arts in a Multicultural Australia
Emoh Ruo: Homage to the Art of the Home
Exhibition Review: Paula Hart, Paul O'Connor, Sarah Toohey and friends Crafts Council Gallery
Perth Western Australia
February - March 1991
Arts in a Multicultural Australia
Festival of Perth Exhibitions
Ehibition Review: Galerie Dusseldorf
Douglas Chambers and The Glick International Collection
Held February - March 1991
Arts in a Multicultural Australia
Setting an Agenda for the Arts in Tasmania
Review: State Arts Conference
Tasmanian Arts Industry Council
April 1991
Photographs of delegates to the conference included.
Arts in a Multicultural Australia
Incomplete Identities: A Critical Study of the Work of Mike Parr
Book review Identities: A Critical Study of the Work of Mike Parr
David Broomfield
University of Western Australia Press
330 pp
Art and the Economy
Demystifying Art Criticism
Book review Art Connections
Jenny Aland and Max Darby
Heinemann, Melbourne 1991
RRP $29.95
Art and the Economy
The Money, the Means and the Info...
Book review The Money and the Means: Grants, Scholarships and Opportunities for Professional Development
Art Museums Association of Australia 1992
RRP $8.00
Art and the Economy
Between the Clues Lies the Evidence
Exhibition review Suzanne Treister
Post West Gallery
22 - 31 May 1992
Art and the Economy
Metaphors of Mortality: Catherine Truman
Exhibition review Life Boat: Carvings by Catherine Truman
Jam Factory Gallery
South Australia
10 July - 9 August 1992
Art and the Economy
The Fourth Side of the Triangle: Bronwyn Oliver
Exhibition review Bronwyn Oliver
Artspace, Adelaide Festival Centre Adelaide, South Australia
29 May - 18 July 1992
Art and the Economy
Uncertainly Thinking
Exhibition review Blink
Contemporary Art Centre
Adelaide
May 1992
Art and the Economy
Give Me a Home Among the Gum Trees...
Exhibition review Backyards Exhibition
Prospect Gallery
21 June - 12 July 1992
Art and the Economy
Sites in Relation to Themselves
Exhibition review 42 Degrees South and 175 Degrees East
Artspace, Adelaide Festival Centre
16 June - 1 August 2000
Art and the Economy
Putting in the Boot - Nicely
Exhibition review Do Something with a Blunstone
Chameleon Gallery
Hobart Tasmania
Art and the Economy
A Belgian Artist's Work in Tasmania
Exhibition review Chantal Delrue: Recent Works
Dick Bett Gallery
Hobart, Tasmania
February - March 1992
Art and the Economy
Possessed
Exhibition review Possessed: Virginia Barratt, Simryn Gill, Richard Grayson, Michele Luke, Julienne Pierce, Steve Wigg
Bullring Jam Factory
South Australia
6 October - 3 November 1991
Art, Architecture & the Environment
Asunder, and Lindy Lee Painting
Exhibition review Time Warps Sound Installation by Ros Bandt Composing Women's Festival
Union Gallery
Adelaide South Australia
September 1991
Art, Architecture & the Environment
First Australian Jewellery Biennial
Exhibition review Manifest Destiny: Ian North
Vast: David Stephenson
Contemporary Art Centre
South Australia
14 September - 6 October 1991
Art, Architecture & the Environment
Maleness
Exhibition review Asunder: Works by Rick Martin and David Kerr Artspace Festival Centre
Adelaide South Australia
September - October 1991
Art, Architecture & the Environment
Lindy Lee Paintings
Exhibition review Lindy Lee - paintings
Contemporary Art Centre
Adelaide South Australia
October 1991
Art, Architecture & the Environment
First Australian Jewellery Biennial
Exhibition review First Australian Jewellery Biennial
Jam Factory Craft and Design Centre
Adelaide South Australia
October 1991
Art, Architecture & the Environment
Juan Davila
Exhibition review Juan Davila
Contemporary Art Centre
Adelaide South Australia
9 August - 8 September 1991
Art, Architecture & the Environment
Gareth Sansom
Exhibition review Gareth Sansom
1991 Indian Seventh Trienniale exhibition
University of South Australia Art Museum
12 September - 19 October 1991
Art, Architecture & the Environment
Backward Glance and A Sideways Glance
Exhibition review Backward Glance: Perth Institute of Contemporary Art Western Australia
6 - 30 September 1991
A Sideways Glance: Galerie Dusseldorf
Western Australia
13 September - 6 October 1991
Art, Architecture & the Environment
Wildflowers in Art
Exhibition review Wildflowers in Art
Art Gallery of Western Australia
October 1991
Art, Architecture & the Environment
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
