The Rise and Rise of Michael Eather

Examines the work of Michael Eather as art maker, gallery director, educator, project promoter and consultant. He established Campfire Consultancy with others. Also established the Fireworks Gallery: Aboriginal Art and other Burning Issues in Brisbane, Queensland.

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Doll

Exhibition review Doll 19 March - 15May 1999 29 artists plus works from the SA Museum, Artspace, Adelaide Festival Centre South Australia Curated by Vivonne Thwaites

Vivonne Thwaites

Art Teachers Hampered by Lack of Training

Art teachers today are expected to have a greater proficiency in a broader range of art skills, yet due to the under funding of teacher training they are receiving less training and professional development to prepare them for the classroom. Discusses the 1999 International Society of Education through Art (InSEA) the theme being 'Cultures and Transitions' held in Brisbane. 1st conference held in 1951

Maria Whaley

Polemic: Practice Makes Perfect: Art Museums, Audiences and the Future.

Examines how galleries, art spaces and arts infrastructure might evolve over the next 25 years to accommodate changes in interaction between artists and audiences. Focus is on the State Galleries and how we might present the multiplicity of view points from the last 30 + years. Resource issues are explored.

Trevor Smith

The Traditional and the New - Artists and Teachers Please Note

Explanation of the benefits to the artist and the environment of working with photopolymer plates (solar plates) in printmaking.

Dianne Longley

Thin Red Pocket Lining: A Note on the Value of University Art Schools

As it rushes headlong towards the stock exchange, lining its tattered pockets by devilishly offering students the educational stock of the deepest desire, university art schools shed its role under modernity of defining and transmitting cultural value. Mammon replaces machismo in the squeezing of art. And yet....?

Ian North

Polemic: The End of Art Schools as we know them?

Art and sport both attempt to construct value and meaning within our lives. For art this is a likely outcome. For media sport it is a contrived ingredient. Artists and art schools have perpetuated a myth about the importance and value of art objects. Suggests possible answers to the issues of teaching art in art and design schools.

Ian Howard

A Country Practice...

The Northern Rivers Region of NSW has more practising artists per head of population than any other region of Australia. Issues such as surviving as a country artist, traditional art practice, commercial considerations, prescribed political and gender issues are raised. Critiques the project 'Beyond the Basin' funded by the NSW Ministry for the Arts and its resultant exhibition 'A Country Practice'.

Peter Wynn-Moylan

The Future of Art

Editorial for the issue -- not the definitive answer but a series of clues as to what direction the visual arts might be following. The issue picks up ideas addressed in the forum 'Art of Sight, Art of Mind: Speculations on the Future of the Visual Arts and Crafts in Australia' organised by the National Association of Visual Arts. NAVA

Stephanie Britton

Hossein Valamanesh: Taking the Intuitive Path

Valamanesh has developed a unique and characteristic art vocabulary and his eloquent work occupies a distinct and prominent position in Australian art. Looks at 'the Untouchable' 1984, 'Pyramids with Light - Inside/Outside' 1980, 'Change of Seasons'.

Chris Reid

Forget the White Gloves: Plug-ins Rule OK ANAT National School for New Media Curation

ANAT Australian Network for Art and Technology devised its 1999 National School, me.d.ia.te, to assist curators and arts workers in gaining a technical and theoretical understanding of new media art exhibition practice. It aimed to provide a 'world's best practice' model.

Adele Hann

Virtual Futures for New Media Art: A Report on dLux Media Arts' Immersive Conditions Forum

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Mitchell Whitelaw

Striking a Chord: David Keeling's Postcolonial Tasmania

The measure of an artist's public success is the extent to which his or her art matters to a particular community. David Keeling aims to present a critical discourse that participates in existing social and political debates. His turning point was not completing his post-graduate degree, not moving to the big smoke or winning a grant or prize, or having a sell-out exhibition but a revelation.

Ian McLean

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