Australian Humour in Sculpture

Cover of Australian Humour in Sculpture
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Lipstick and Land Rights: matriarchal sovereign history and the cyber frontier
Feature
Lorna Munro

Published 24 January 2022
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We Don't Fabricate, We Weave: Kumarangk (Hindmarsh Island) and Ngarrindjeri women’s resistance
Feature
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
Guildhouse
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Lipstick and Land Rights: A poetic response
Feature
Lorna Munro

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

Published 15 December 2021

Does each country, race and cultural group have a particular sense of humour? And if so, is it possible to define their specific characteristics?

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Places for Sculpture and Sculptors: Melbourne
Feature
Simeon Kronenberg

With commissions over the past year at Southgate, the Great Southern Stand at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, the Swanston Walk and others, Melbourne's image is undergoing change. Renowned for its Victorian buildings and innumerable memorial sculptures of kings, queens, politicians and military leaders, Melbourne is now seeing contemporary sculpture in unexpected places. (Ken Scarlett)

Published June 1993
Editor's Note: Sculpture
Editorial
Stephanie Britton

This special issue does not attempt to be a national survey of sculpture. It has focussed on various centres and given others less attention, partly to balance previous material in earlier issues of Artlink of which the following are notes by way of summary.

Published June 1993
Gerry Wedd
Review
Cath Kenneally

Exhibition Review Scratch Works
By Gerry Wedd
Jam Factory Centre of Art and Design
February 1993

Published June 1993
Women Sculptors - A New Bread
Feature
Stephanie Radok

You could say that much of the most interesting and demanding artwork being done today is being done by women....There are many new languages in the work of contemporary women sculptors. Important overview of the Mildura Sculpture Triennials in terms of women's representation. Great photos!

Published June 1993
Carol Rudyard
Review
Nikki Miller

Exhibition review Point of View: Carol Rudyard selected works 1968 -1992
Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery
Perth Western Australia
29 January - 28 March 1993

Published June 1993
The Advantages of Isolation
Review
Margaret Moore

Exhibition Review The Advantage of Isolation
Festival of Perth Artplace
Claremont Western Australia
28 January - 6 March 1993
and at the Blaxland Gallery
Sydney New South Wales
11 February - 7 March 1993

Published June 1993
Mildura - The Watershed for Sculpture: An Enchanted Garden
Feature
Tom McCullough

1993 is the 20th annniversary of Sculpturscape '73 an outdoor exhibition that happened in Mildura, a small city on the Victorian side of the Murray River, distant from the state capitals of eastern Australia.

Published June 1993
Sculpture Flourishes in Western Australia
Feature
Robyn Taylor

This article is about sculpture in Western Australia and how efforts have been made in the recent past to establish the nature of its practice and the identity of its practitioners.

Published June 1993
To the Surface
Review
Deborah Wardrop (St Leger)

Exhibition Review To the Surface - Contemporary Landscape Plimsoll Gallery
Centre for the Arts Hobart Tasmania
10 - 24 January 1993
Curator Ray Arnold

Published June 1993
In Landscapes and Parks: Gasworks Park Melbourne
Feature
Philippa Burne

Looks at the 5 year sculpture development program at the Gasworks 3.46 hectares of open space in Melbourne - close to the city, accessible with strong community focus and an emphasis on contemporary art.

Published June 1993
Spatial Shamanism
Feature
David Hansen

It is a brief sober guide to certain spatial (and therefore sculptural) behaviours as initially identified and described by Bronte Edwards, Commander in Chief of the Art Army.

Published June 1993
Richard Dunn: Beyond Dialectics
Feature
Ian North

Minimalism is still misunderstood, not only because its manifestations are so various as to strain the word's usefulness as a blanket term, but more importantly because it stood at the confused fissure between modernism and post-modernism; from this stems the lively contradictory implications of Richard Dunn's art practice.

Published June 1993