One Pole Too Many? Learning to Speak the Language of a Successful Australian Arts Practitioner

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We Don't Fabricate, We Weave: Kumarangk (Hindmarsh Island) and Ngarrindjeri women’s resistance
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Dominic Guerrera

Published 15 December 2021
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Reclaiming the Rock in Project Banaba: Creativity, survival and agricultural colonialism in the Pacific
Feature
Katerina Teaiwa

Published 15 December 2021
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Lipstick and Land Rights: A poetic response
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Lorna Munro

Published 15 December 2021
Gallipoli Art Prize
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Woven Selves, Entangled Countries: Weaving across borders
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Dameeli Coates

Published 15 December 2021
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Sovereign city, sovereign self and Warrior Woman Lane
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Timmah Ball

Published 15 December 2021
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Miyurr Mi:wi: Working from home in the spirit of Country
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Tracey Rigney

Published 15 December 2021
Gallery Lane Cove
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My Sovereign Mind: A practice in two parts
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Hayley Millar Baker

Published 15 December 2021
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Sovereign Sight: Intersections of the historical archive and artistic practice—a curatorial perspective
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Kimberley Moulton

Published 15 December 2021

Discusses the exhibition 'Diaphanous' at Span Galleries curated by Kirsten Rann, deconstructing and challenging the notion of multicultural artist.

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The Rise and Rise of Michael Eather
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Pat Hoffie

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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The Artist and the Critic
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Joanna Mendelssohn

Fortunately not all critics are so urgently in need of friends that they write hymns of praise after every long lunch. Some even relish being labelled 'ungrateful'. I would argue that the only critic worth reading is an ungrateful critic. Looks at the role of visual art criticism in the newspaper columns of the daily press.

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

New media art has developed a close if troubled relationship with the figure of the future. Discusses Troy Innocent's ICONICA, Mousetrap by Ian Haig, RAPT by Justine Cooper, OSMOSE and EPHEMERE by Char Davies and Immersive Conditions a forum held at the Powerhouse Museum Sydney. Examines concepts of virtual reality and apparent reality.

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Unheard Voices: Asian Artists in Australia
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Neil Manton

Discussion of the issues for artists of Asian descent in the Australian milieu, exploring issues of identity and displacement. Unheard voices could also characterise emerging artists as well as those from a multicultural background.

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New Geographies of Knowledge
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Stephanie Radok

Explores the relationship between art making in the city and the regional areas. How much do curatorial strategies or templates order and determine what we see in State galleries and large exhibitions? Looks at the exhibition 'Palimpsest #2' to raise questions of curatorial control or whether it should continue without such controls.

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Riding on the Edge: Art, Identity and the Motorcycle
Review
Robert Nelson

Exhibition review Riding on the edge: Art Identity and the Motorcycle
7 February- 11 April 1999
Waverley City Gallery
Curated by John Pigot

Published June 1999
User-friendly Internet Options for the Arts
Feature
Chris Limmer

Dynamic interactive web-sites are becoming increasingly the norm. Lists the types of functions that are available using particular technology.

Published June 1999
Striking a Chord: David Keeling's Postcolonial Tasmania
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Ian McLean

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.

Published June 1999
Deschooling Art
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Donald Brook

Education is the second most depressing non-subject in the entire catalogue of non-subjects, beginning with the Aardvark as Social Construct and ending with The Flagant Signifier in Finno-Ugric Zyrian,

Published June 1999
Immediate
Review
Maria Kunda

Exhbition Review Immediate 31 March- 11 April 1999 Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart Tasmania
Curated by Leigh Hobba

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A Country Practice...
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Peter Wynn-Moylan

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'.

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Doll
Review
Vivonne Thwaites

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

Published June 1999