The Plan

Looks at the 'National Agenda for a Multicultural Australia' launched by the Prime Minister in 1989 which included provision for the development of a plan for collecting institutions such as museums, art museums, libraries and archives to reflect Australia's cultural diversity in their activities and practices.

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Looks at the art practice of four artists in Western Australia - Patrizia Tonello, Alex Spremberg, Cathy Cinanni and Karl Wiebke. Illustrations of their independent works included.

Julian Goddard

Zsuzsa Kollo

Looks at the ceramic works of Zsuzsa Kollo which refer to Pre-historic, Eastern, and Christian works. includes b/w photo.

Jane Deeth

Multicultural Arts: Development and Change in Brisbane

It is fair to say that the development of multicultural arts and the recognition of cultural diversity in Queensland is still in its early stages. Photos (6) of an event at the Cafe Folkloric.

Christopher Bowen

Interview with James Mollison

The Office of Multicultural Affairs talks for Artlink with James Mollison, Director of the National Gallery of Victoria March 1991.

Meredith Smith

BulaBula: New High Tech Arts Centre, Ramingining

The three storey facility looks incongruous in the ramshackle Aboriginal settlement of Ramingining which crouches along a dirt road in an Arnhem Land eucalypt forest 550 km east of Darwin in the Northern Territory. Photos of people in Ramingining.

Steve Bunk

Ginger Riley Munduwalawala: Working on a Heroic Scale

Looks at the art practice of Ginger Riley Munduwalawala, born in 1937 at Ngukurr in the Northern Territory. Good colour photos of the artist and some works.

Anthony Knight

Festival of Perth Exhibitions

Ehibition Review: Galerie Dusseldorf Douglas Chambers and The Glick International Collection Held February - March 1991

Melissa Harpley

Arriving at a Sense of Position

At times, life feels like a collection of unrelated events, a necklace without the string. Christl Berg writes of her experiences of leaving Germany when she was 25 and having lived in three different continents with three different cultures at varied stages in her life.

Christl Berg

Accelerate

"I used to boast about you, my son the painter. You painted trees, now you paint squares to humiliate me." Quote by the artist's father in the early 1970s Melbourne.

Sam Schoenbaum

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.

Susan Sheridan

Mixing it in Broome and Darwin

The Broome Mix is useful to bear in mind when thinking on all things multicultural - cultural diversity. In Broome that's culture - a mix of Aboriginal, Asian and European.

Kerry Davies

Elizabeth Gertsakis

Illustration of her current art practice. Includes images of her work 'The Boys in the Band' from 1989.

Elizabeth Gertsakis

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