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Constructing Space - Plimsoll Gallery
Exhibition review Constructing space
Plimsoll Gallery
Tasmanian School of Art Hobart, Tasmania
13 March - 6 June
Still Looking at the Billboard
Exhibition review Aroha Terrace, Forestville
June 1994
In the last issue of Artlink 9Vol 14 No 2 - the art of survival) we looked at an innovative art program being run in Adelaide. The 1994 bilboard project at Aroha Terrace Forestville continued until the end of the year, with different artists represented each month.
A Series of Close Connections
Really the only way to understand the apparently large Sydney art scene is to use diagrams and statistics, all of which were compiled by the author.
The Lesser of Two Cities
Sydney thinks of itself as the centre of the country, the only part that matters, but in the lucrative art market, Sydney is subsidiary to the old moneyed city of the south -- Melbourne.
Contemporary Aboriginal Art - Flinders University Art Museum
Exhibition review Looking Towards the Future: Contemporary Aboriginal Art
Flinders University Art Museum
South Australia
13 May - 24 June 1994
Julie Blyfield
Exhibition review Memento celebration sentimentality
Contemporary jewellery by Julie Blyfield
Jam Factory Gallery
8 April - 29 May 1994
Sydney in Focus: Reflections on Marketing in the Visual Arts
Since their inception, galleries and museums around the world have entertained the principles of marketing, but perhaps never so consciously as now. Of all Australian arts institutions, the Art Gallery of New South Wales has been most aware of the need to market its image.
In the Air, on the Ground (and Water too) - Public Art in Sydney
In the air, on the ground ( and water too). Sydney is undergoing an unprecedented interest in public art. Artists, curators, academics, contemporary art spaces, museums. commercial galleries, architects, urban designers, town planners, local government, arts councils and ministries - all are involved in varying degrees in making, discussing, supporting or promoting public art. Major fold out of William Yang's photographs.
Youth Art and Mobile Galleries
Nowhere is the art of Sydney's youth more obvious than in the public sphere. Discussion with Linda Forrester a researcher of the creative culture of graffiti, street machining and skate boarding.
Joan Kerr: Sydney Scholar
Joan Kerr rewrites Australian art history to gain a better understanding of the present. Her ambitious projects question who wrote what, how and about whom. Discussion of 'Heritage: The National Women's Art Book'. Photograph of Joan Kerr in the article.
Where Would Sydney be Without its Art Prizes?
The hype, the hysteria, the media and the money. Of all Sydney's art prizes it is the Archibald which arouses the greatest public interest...