Nike Savvas: Joining the Inner Circle

Nike Savvas was awarded a Samstag Scholarship in 1996 ans was accepted into Goldsmiths College as an Associate Research Student. She has instigated a number of one day exhibitions with artists from Australia and Europe along with fellow students from Goldsmiths.

More from this Issue

Sit Up! and Nature as Object

Sit Up!: 100 Masterpieces from the Vitra Design Museum Collection Nature as Object: Craft and Design from Japan, Finland and Australia Art Gallery of Western Australia 2 July - 6 September 1998

Christopher Crouch

Export What! Where!

Looks at the issues facing the export of the Australian visual art product overseas.

Gael Newton

Entree: Emerging Adelaide Artists

Curated by Di Barrett Nexus Gallery, Adelaide September - October

Jackie Deane

Sydney Biennale Every Day

Exploration of the 11th Biennale of Sydney curated by Jonathon Watkins.

Joanna Mendelssohn

International Programs

Discusses the cultural policy of the Victorian Government Arts 21 promulgated in 1994 which aimed to reinforce the government's agenda to promote Melbourne and Victoria as an international centre of excellence.

Kate Shea

Expanse: Aboriginalities, Spatialities and the Politics of Ecstasy

University of SA Art Museum 4 September - 3 October 1998 Curated by Ian North

Donald Brook

Asialink's Exhibition Program: A Sampling

Describes Asialink's exhibition program which commenced in 1991 at the same time as the residency program with funding from the VACB and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

Alison Carroll

The Wild(e) Colonial Boy

Leigh Bowery edited Robert Violette published Editions Violette/distributed by Thames and Hudson $89.00 238 pp colour and b&w illustrations

Juliette Peers

Telling Tales to Austria

Telling Tales an exhibition curated by Jill Bennett and Jackie Dunn about trauma, subjectivity and memory began an international tour in March 1999 as part of the SOCOG Cultural Olympiad 'Reaching the World' . Opened at the Ivan Dougherty Gallery at the College of Fine Arts Sydney in conjunction with a major conference 'Trauma and Memory--Cross Cultural Perspectives'.

Jacqueline Thomas

White Aborigines: Identity Politics in Australian Art

Ian McLeanWhite Aborigines:Identity Politics in Australian Art. Oakleigh, Vic, Cambridge University Press, 1998, 204 pp. RRP $39.95 hb.

Kay Schaffer

Parachuting Postponed: Birmingham

Claire Doherty is a curator at the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, England's second city. The 'Art into Action' program supports artists working in process based or research based ways over extended periods of time in direct communication with groups and individuals in Birmingham. The exploration of 'home' suggested itself as a universal metaphor as the 'sacred place' from which all else could be mapped.

Claire Doherty

A Revolutionary Digital Summer in the UK

Digital technology is driving the revolution in visual culture and consciousness. Exploring the ninth International Symposium of the Electronic Arts [ISEA98].

Anna Jean Bonshek

View all articles in this issue