A Matter of Representation

Since the birth of Australian television, non-anglo Australians have suffered from an acute case of foreign accent syndrome. Unfortunately 35 years on they are still suffering, not only from bad accents usually spoken by Anglo actors playing NESBs, but from the dearth of authentic storylines and subsequently the lack of accurate representation of NESBs on our TV and screens.

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SBS TV Arts

With the exception of some programming on SBS and the ABC, artists receive very little exposure on television. The limitations of television, the need to maintain a wide audience reach, the difficult question of what is 'good art' in a televisual sense, all may help to explain the absence of living artists from this, the most powerful of all media.

Geoffrey Dann

Multicultural Artworkers: Sacrificial Anodes?

This is a new notion for me. I'm sure it is a term familiar to most readers. However, just in case, this is my version of what it means. To understand it you need to appreciate that there is an hierarchical order of metals determined by their 'nobility'. A sacrifical anode is less a noble metal which is used to attract impurities away from more noble metals that you do not wish to be eroded. Thus if you wish to avoid erosion in your copper boiler, you can put a sacrificial anode in the water which will attract the impurities in the water and keep them away from your noble boiler. The link between multicultural artworkers and sacrificial anodes is entirely my own!

Helen Andreoni

How Clay Speaks for Neville Assad

The alphabet was invented, so they say, in Lebanon. To some Lebanese, their country represents an un-broken link with the birth of human history. Non-Aboriginal Australians, by contrast, share stories of interrupted family ties, of exile and forgetting. How then do these Lebanese relate to life in Australia?

Kevin Murray

Collaborative Impressions

Exhibition review: Works by Nola Routoulas, Helen Karpathakis, Nora Mantzioris and Alexandra Akritidis. Artzone Gallery, Adelaide South Australia April 1991

Nola Routoulas

Ngura Kujara - Two Homes

Exhibition Review: Tandanya Adelaide South Australia January - June 1991. Interviews with curators Kerry Giles Kurwingie and John Kean. Images of inma at Ernabella included in the article.

Felicity Wright

Images from the Esperanto Suite

During the process of producing his artworks, George looks for ways of translating different philosophical ideas into marks and images.

Phillip George

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

Alike/Unalike: Cultural Diversity in Australian Independent Film

Cultural diversity is crucial. Film makers may be unlike (in terms of cultural background) but they are also alike (in terms of their value.) In the area of independent film, there are a number of films which deal with multicultural themes and/or give non Anglo film-makers the opportunity to express themselves. One hopes that mainstream film can take up on this lead, because, from all apparent evidence, it remains sorely imbalanced.

Bill Mousoulis

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

Luk Luk Gen!

Exhibition Review: Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute Adelaide South Australia November 1990 - June 1991

Barry Craig

Are You Being Served? An Open Invitation from MAC

Multicultural Artworker's Committee [MAC] aims to provide all citizens with equal opportunity to access and promote art in its various forms.

Charlie Schiavone

Karin Lettau

Brief article looking at the art practice of Karin Lettau. Good colour photographs of the work.

Jane Deeth

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