Subscriber login:
Forgotten password?


Fuel for Thought: oil, energy, conflict and art

Fuel for Thought: oil, energy, conflict and art

Vol 28 no 1


How are artists responding to peak oil, the search for alternative energy sources and conflict over resources? Artlink goes global in search of answers. The issue includes artists who have used alternative energy or whose work reflects the negative effects of an oil-based economy, with some powerful imagery by artists from the Middle East, East Timor, Iraq, the Philippines, Australia, California and Chicago. Burnt out petrol bowsers share the space with artwork which looks forward to a post-oil energy scenario. A video animation by Chinese artist Qiu Anxiong offers a profoundly moving experience on mankind's disastrous love affair with industrialisation. Australian artists include Charles Green and Lyndell Brown as official war artists in Iraq, as well as Alison Clouston, Zina Kaye, Madeleine Kelly, Carmel Wallace, Pamela Kouwenhoven and more. Editor Ian Hamilton.


Subscribe to Artlink - from $52. Subscriptions available for readers anywhere in the world.



NAVA - National Association for the Visual Arts

New Internationalist













Advertisement:



You are here » Artlink » Vol 28 no 1 » The winding way

The winding way

Jacqui Stock, feature

Cairns-based artist Tijn Meulendijks considers the plant world as his medium. His exhibition, 'Natura est ars', held at Umbrella Studio in Townsville in 2007, was concentrated around a single plant community gathered while walking in a coastal Melaleuca swamp after fire had affected the environment.



The full text of this article is only available in the printed version of Artlink Magazine.
» Subscribe or order a back issue

Article Index


Artlink wishes to acknowledge the copyright of the artists whose images appear on this website. Please note that images cannot be copied by users of this site and copyright remains with the artist or the rights holder at all times.