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A Sociology of Art... Why Does Art Look (or Sound) Like it Does?
Analytical perceptions for a new century. The artist - the creative thinker. The mechanics of thinking. Rational and irrational mechanics of thinking. Aesthetics and sociology - the conjugal relationship etc The critics best friend or friends must necessarily be the artist!
Art & Education
Modernism and Post Modernism in Asian Art
Review of conference at the Australian National University Canberra, 22 -25 March 1991. Organised by the Humanities Research Centre and the Department of Art History ANU.
Art & Education
Rescue
ACCA the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art affiliates with Monash University.
Art & Education
Learning to be Naive
Review of works of Malcolm Otton at the Naive Galleries Woolhara NSW
Art & Education
Problems with Art Publishing in Australia
Art writing and payment to writers and how this influences who writes for what!
Art & Education
Distribution - Who Will Tame the Bete Noir?
The case for a viable national infrastructure.
Art & Education
Funding for Visual Arts Publishing
The Visual Arts/Crafts Board has been grappling with the difficulties facing specialist visual arts publishing in Australia for many years.
Art & Education
A Cornucopia? Arts Publishing in New Zealand
Looks at the impressive range of publications on the visual arts in New Zealand. This is not an exhaustive overview but a thumbnail sketch of this large and diverse topic.
Art & Education
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
Cultural Lifestyle as a Taxpayer: 1990 the new era for self responsibility
Polemic for 1990 (in two parts) Part 1 Odours of redundancy Facts and Foibles part 2 Alternatives as suggested in Polemic No 1 Culture tax and Ôknow howÕ
Community Arts
Why do Angels fly Anti-clockwise?
Community arts has been eminently successful with an impressive list of achievements for a field not more than fifteen years old.
Community Arts
Through the Looking Glass: Community art at the Strathmont Centre
Every human being is an artist wrote Joseph Beuys who believed the creativity and its potentially concomitant powers of self determination and freedom are inherent in all people and the most worthy occupation for them.
Community Arts
Community Arts: the Seventies Fad that never went away
The category Ôcommunity artsÕ had no real currency in Australia until it appeared in federal arts policy as a separate funding programme in 1973.
Community Arts
Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras
Over the last 12 years the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras has slowly evolved into a community arts success story. From its beginnings on Stonewall Day in 1978 to the multi functional arts organisation it is now, Mardi Gras continues to develop the culture of gay and lesbian communities who own and manage it.
Community Arts
Reflections on Experience
A conversation for Artlink between Kay Lawrence, Ann Newmarch and Cedar Prest, three South Australian based professional artists who have worked extensively with communities. May 3 1990
Community Arts
Australian Labour Based Art in an International Context.
Artwork produced in conjunction with the labour movement (in common with much community based work) receives little public attention.
Community Arts
Now we are 10 Redback Graphix 10 year anniversary touring exhibition
Redback Graphix was formed in 1979 not as a co-operative or a community based access workshop but as a fully fledged business.
Community Arts
Towards the Yapa Way
Much arts activity in Aboriginal communities revolves around, and is driven by, the forces of the international art market. Looks at the artist in residency programme in the community of Lajamanu in the Northern Territory.
Community Arts
WhatÕs wrong with the Lounge Room? Community arts and Public TV
Television is one of the fundamental cultural realities of our time. Any attempt to deal with Australian cultural life has to come to grips with this phenomenon. Yet to a great extent this has not happened with arts commentators.
Community Arts
Curbin the Urban
An environmental arts project in inner Melbourne, Victoria. Cartoonist Judy Horacek has been employed to create cartoons about the environmental concerns of local residents ranging from the destruction of rain-forests to the dilemma of cremation or burial.
Community Arts
Music by any other name would be as sweet.
If all the arguments about community music that have raged around Australia for the past 15 years or so were laid end to end, they would stretch from the Sydney Opera House to the Hobart Casino, from the Boggabrai Light Opera Company to the Geraldton Recorder Group, from the Rockhampton Youth Orchestra to the Busselton Trade Union Choir and back, forming a veritable spider web tapestry of case histories that neither prove nor disprove any one definition of what community music is or is not.
Community Arts
Community Arts -- Collaborative Design
Written with Michelle Howard Looks at the new Box Hill Community Arts Centre designed by Greg Burgess and Peter Ryan of Greg Burgess and Associates.
Community Arts
Photo Access
Photo Access is a community organisation located close to central Canberra. It offers low cost access to photographic darkroom facilities, course, information and exhibition space.
Community Arts
Gasworks
The Gasworks is located in an 8 acre park on the edge of the sea in South Melbourne. In 1985 the City of South Melbourne adopted a plan to transform the polluted industrial wasteland into a Park and convert the building surrounding its perimeter into artistsÕ studios, workshops, perfomance and exhibition spaces.
Community Arts
Realising Potential in Writing
There is considerable potential for writing-in-the-community and community theatre writing. However, that potential may only be fully achieved if there is a re-evaluation of the aesthetics, processes and products of such writing. The re-evaluation should be based on the assumption that the product should have substance rather than flopsy-bunny triviality. The community arts are worse than useless if they do not have a functional as well as an artistic aspect.
Community Arts
The Evolution of Urban Art
A seven metre alien and a five metre cloaked warrior were two of the sensational pieces in Western AustraliaÕs first gallery showing of Urban Art. The display at Curtin UniversityÕs Erica Underwood Gallery, July 10 - 27 1990 showed the works of ten of the City of GosnellsÕ talented aerosol artists and was yet another development in the City of Gosnells unique Urban Arts programme that is being used as a model around Australia.
Community Arts
Excuse me but we are still out here...
Billboard spaces is part of an on-going initiative from the Festival of Arts 1990 (Adelaide) hoping to expand the idea of suburban street activity.
Community Arts
Teenage Roadshows Journeys of Discovery
Looks at the work of Gil Weaver and the Teenage Roadshows and what started for one individual as a rescue mission for deprived urban kids in 1972 has become one of the few arts educational enterprises for people living in outback Australia. Great photos of the kids and their artworks.
Community Arts
Interview with Deborah Mills, director of the Community Development Cultural Unit
Interview with Deborah Mills, director of the Community Development Cultural Unit. ÒI cannot really predict where community arts is going to go... butÓ
Community Arts
Powerhouse Regional Arts Centre
At Casula railway station just outside Liverpool NSW stands an old but sturdy former power station which is steadily taking on its new life as a community arts centre. John SkennerÕs architectural plans have resulted from extensive community and council consultation.
Community Arts
State of the Arts in Community Arts - a special 16 page directory to national resources.
State of the Arts in Community Arts - a special 16 page directory to national resources. Comprehensive and clear listing of national organisations and agencies.
Community Arts
People and places
In Hastings Victoria, a performance artist and a conservationist worked with school children and the community to raise their consciousness of the necessity to protect the seagrass in the area against destruction from industrial development. Three years after the start of the Seagrass Project, the community voted into council a large contingent of environmentally conscious representatives.
Community Arts
Belles Lettres: Voices from Homes of Violence
Belles Lettres is a collection of writing and visual images by participants in a women's writing project held under the umbrella of Women's Refuge and the Incest Centre in the ACT (Australian Capital Territory).
Community Arts
The Arts Council at a Cultural Frontier
The environmental movement has given weight to a genuine desire for people to re-associate with the bush and discover values beyond the limitations of a suburban Brick Wall Dreaming.
Community Arts
Savage Lives
Savage Lives began in June 1989 when 3 artists Leigh Hobba, Ray Arnold and John Dale took up residence in a minerÕs house in Savage River, Tasmania.
Community Arts
Anita Aarons on Aesthetic Aerobics
Anita Aarons said this fell off the back of a bus while in Bali.
Community Arts
From a Cardboard Box to Knox
Community arts in Victoria in 1990. Looks at the Oakleigh Community railway project and details of Austin Hospital Textile mural. Great colour photos.
Community Arts
Community Arts Resource Centre
The Community Arts resource Centre is an information resource/referral centre with a specialised library collection.
Community Arts
Prospect Public Spaces Study Group
Prospect Public Spaces Study Group are Prospect residents with interest and skills in the arts. It meets regularly to consider the built environment in Prospect, a suburb of Adelaide in South Australia.
Community Arts
The Spray Can, Community Art and Young People
Written with Lorena Felicetti. The aim of the project (located in Melbourne Victoria), was to establish an on-going Aerosol Art Workshop for young artists. An artist will be employed to establish the project and develop a mural project. Looks at works at the Preston Technical College Wall --colour photos
Community Arts
The Poster, the Gringa and 6 Languages
Positive Visions was a community poster project that challenged two stereo types seeking to counteract both of these stereotypes engaging migrant women in a collaborative process to create a series of posters highlighting solutions rather than problems. Great colour photos.
Community Arts
Mural on a truck
Carol Ruff, nationally known muralist whose work can be seen from Alice Springs to Townsville and Melbourne to Port Moresby, didnÕt know what a sullage truck was until she was approached by the community arts officer at Warringah Shire Council.
Community Arts
Shoulder to Shoulder -- neither absent nor silent
Artists against racism project known in its public format as Òshoulder to shoulderÓ, the project re-examines, revalues and recontextualises participantsÕ past experiences while simultaneously offering a positive affirmation of the future, beyond individual and collective pain and injustice.
Community Arts
The Arts in your Community: Why and How
An examination of some of the issues inhibiting the development of the arts in local government.
Community Arts
Challenge for a new force
The Local Government and Arts Task Force (South Australia) was set up to examine and clearly articulate the relative roles for each sphere of government in the funding and support of local arts and cultural development.
Community Arts
Extending Parameters
Extending Parameters Research Forum Brisbane, Queensland (February 21-23 1990), and the National Ideas Summit in Canberra February, 1990.
Community Arts
A Brief History of an Arts Practice in community contexts
To construct a brief history of Vivienne BinnsÕ art practice and reflections, what follows is a series of quotations from previous interviews and lectures. Her formal art traiing is included as it is an important element in the way Vivienne sees her art practice strategically relating to high culture and excellence, low culture, community and feminism
Community Arts
Community Art as Feminist Challenge: Vivienne Binns
Looks at the community art practice of Vivienne Binns. Great colour photos
Community Arts
Public Art
David Humphries and Rodney Monk are artists with a vision. Directors of Public Art Projects they have recently completed a 2 year posting as artistic directors on Skygarden a multi million dollar retail and office development.
Community Arts
Editor's Note: Sculpture
This special issue does not attempt to be a national survey of sculpture. It has focussed on various centres and given others less attention, partly to balance previous material in earlier issues of Artlink of which the following are notes by way of summary.
Dimensions: Sculpture in Australia
A Fact, A Question
Sculpture is not like painting because it is not flat and does not raise the question of mimesis in the same way. A theory of sculpture must therefore be, somewhere at its deep foundations, different from a theory of painting. Not just a bit different: a lot different.
Dimensions: Sculpture in Australia
Spatial Shamanism
It is a brief sober guide to certain spatial (and therefore sculptural) behaviours as initially identified and described by Bronte Edwards, Commander in Chief of the Art Army.
Dimensions: Sculpture in Australia
Mildura - The Watershed for Sculpture: 1975 Destablising Old Canons
...It was therefore inevitable that by 1975 Tom McCullough's Mildura Sculpturescape would attract an increasing number of artists doing installation, process, earth and other forms of art that emerged when sculpture, as it were, left the pedestal, moved around the room and went outside.
Dimensions: Sculpture in Australia
Mildura - The Watershed for Sculpture: An Enchanted Garden
1993 is the 20th annniversary of Sculpturscape '73 an outdoor exhibition that happened in Mildura, a small city on the Victorian side of the Murray River, distant from the state capitals of eastern Australia.
Dimensions: Sculpture in Australia
Mildura - The Watershed for Sculpture: McCullough and Performance
The Mildura Sculpture Triennials directed by Tom McCullough seemed the liveliest and most ennjoyable art events held anywhere in Australia...
Dimensions: Sculpture in Australia
Australian Humour in Sculpture
Does each country, race and cultural group have a particular sense of humour? And if so, is it possible to define their specific characteristics?
Dimensions: Sculpture in Australia
Sculpture Flourishes in Western Australia
This article is about sculpture in Western Australia and how efforts have been made in the recent past to establish the nature of its practice and the identity of its practitioners.
Dimensions: Sculpture in Australia
Women Sculptors - A New Bread
You could say that much of the most interesting and demanding artwork being done today is being done by women....There are many new languages in the work of contemporary women sculptors. Important overview of the Mildura Sculpture Triennials in terms of women's representation. Great photos!
Dimensions: Sculpture in Australia
Dimensions - Ground Painting in Papunya
Extensive examination of the women's ground painting created at Tandanya (National Aboriginal Cultural Centre) for the Adelaide Festival in 1990.
Dimensions: Sculpture in Australia
New Sculpture in Papua New Guinea
Re-evaluation of the current position of artworks from Papua New Guinea looking particularly at sculpture.
Dimensions: Sculpture in Australia
Dancing Sulka Masks
Examination of the role of dance masks in Papua New Guinea culture. The author was in the area to invite 2 Sulka men to Adelaide to dance hemlaut and susu masks at the Pacific Arts Symposium in April 1993. Coloured photos of the dance masks.
Dimensions: Sculpture in Australia
Richard Dunn: Beyond Dialectics
Minimalism is still misunderstood, not only because its manifestations are so various as to strain the word's usefulness as a blanket term, but more importantly because it stood at the confused fissure between modernism and post-modernism; from this stems the lively contradictory implications of Richard Dunn's art practice.
Dimensions: Sculpture in Australia
Places for Sculpture and Sculptors: Melbourne
With commissions over the past year at Southgate, the Great Southern Stand at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, the Swanston Walk and others, Melbourne's image is undergoing change. Renowned for its Victorian buildings and innumerable memorial sculptures of kings, queens, politicians and military leaders, Melbourne is now seeing contemporary sculpture in unexpected places. (Ken Scarlett)
Dimensions: Sculpture in Australia
Places for Sculpture and Sculptors: Sydney
Tony Bond, artistic director of the recent Sydney Biennale suggests that since the staging of the first Biennale in 1973 sculpture and other three dimensional art have been actively promoted in Sydney.
Dimensions: Sculpture in Australia
Places for Sculpture and Sculptors: Perth
Gomboc Gallery and Sculpture Park is an inspiring example of vision and dedication to an artform within the private enterprise system.
Dimensions: Sculpture in Australia
In Landscapes and Parks: Lake Districts, Yorkshire, Otterlo
Looks at three locations Grizedale Forest (UK) Yorkshire Sculpture Park (UK) Rijksmuseum Kroller-Muller of Otterlo (Netherlands) where one can experience sculpture within the landscape.
Dimensions: Sculpture in Australia
In Landscapes and Parks: Gasworks Park Melbourne
Looks at the 5 year sculpture development program at the Gasworks 3.46 hectares of open space in Melbourne - close to the city, accessible with strong community focus and an emphasis on contemporary art.
Dimensions: Sculpture in Australia
New Books on Richard Goodwin and Ari Purhonen
Review of new series of critical monographs
Edited by Christopher Allen
Ari Purhonen
Richard Goodwin
Australian Artists Series
Oliver Freeman Editions 1992
RRP $49.95
Dimensions: Sculpture in Australia
Ceremonial Work in Darwin
Darwin has a burgeoning arts community which produces a unique body of visual art related to festivals and events. Aboriginal culture and proximity to Asia and the Pacific have influenced the work being produced by these artists.
Dimensions: Sculpture in Australia
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Multicultural, Aboriginal or Just Plain Australian
A great deal of agonising has gone on since the 1988 Bicentenary about the nature of Australian identity and therefore the nature of our distinctive culture.
Arts in a Multicultural Australia
Art and Racism: Inter-National Issues
The way that I want to convey that meaning [racism] here is to use a small number of relatively random examples of current art/race = art/power debates from around the world. They give a flavour of the issues. They have obvious relevance to Australia's relationship to the rest of the world, as well as to relationships within Australia.
Arts in a Multicultural Australia
Visions in the South Pacific: The Immigrant Artist: A Twice Told Tale
Colonial Ghettoes: the possibilities and limitations of new identity as vision.
Arts in a Multicultural Australia
Understanding/Misunderstanding
A reference to Wittgenstein's Zettel.
Arts in a Multicultural Australia
Heritage Revealed
The Australian National Gallery's library has just completed a project which documented ethnic and immigrant objects in about 750 photographs. The bulk of these photographs show textile and ceramic craft brought with immigrants to Australia or made in Australia following traditional methods and designs. Nearly 20 ethnic groups from Europe, the Middle East and Asia are represented. Photos of textiles included.
Arts in a Multicultural Australia