Australian Humour in Sculpture

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The five phases of Aboriginal art
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Djon Mundine

 

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palawa kani: Expressing the power of language in art and the museum context
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Zoe Rimmer and Theresa Sainty

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Reconnecting the Yaghan community to cultural belongings 90 years on
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Rebecca Carland

Published 01 June 2020
SALA
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Looking for murnong
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Lou Bennett and Romaine Moreton

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Kin‑dling and other radical relationalities
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Emily Johnson and Karyn Recollet

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Making Inuit art in the moment
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asinnajaq

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Notes from Kahoʻolawe, Ka Paeʻāina o Hawaiʻi, Moananuiākea
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Drew Kahuaina Broderick and Josh Tengan

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Weaving memory, living embodiment
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Freja Carmichael

Published 01 June 2020

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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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
A Fact, A Question
Feature
Donald Brook

Sculpture is not like painting because it is not flat and does not raise the question of mimesis in the same way. A theory of sculpture must therefore be, somewhere at its deep foundations, different from a theory of painting. Not just a bit different: a lot different.

Published June 1993
Ceremonial Work in Darwin
Feature
Gwendolyn Broug

Darwin has a burgeoning arts community which produces a unique body of visual art related to festivals and events. Aboriginal culture and proximity to Asia and the Pacific have influenced the work being produced by these artists.

Published June 1993
Craft in Society by Noris Loannou
Book Review
Anne Brennan

Book Review Craft in Society: An Anthology of Perspectives Noris Ioannou (ed.)
Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1992
312 pp, RRP $24.95

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
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
Places for Sculpture and Sculptors: Perth
Feature
Dorothy Erickson

Gomboc Gallery and Sculpture Park is an inspiring example of vision and dedication to an artform within the private enterprise system.

Published June 1993
Dimensions - Ground Painting in Papunya
Feature
Richard (Dick) Kimber

Extensive examination of the women's ground painting created at Tandanya (National Aboriginal Cultural Centre) for the Adelaide Festival in 1990.

Published June 1993
Locations
Review
Stephanie Radok

Exhibition review Location: Contemporary photo-based work from Australia University of South Australia Art Museum
4-27 March 1993

Published June 1993
New Books on Richard Goodwin and Ari Purhonen
Feature
Robert Nelson

Review of new series of critical monographs
Edited by Christopher Allen
Ari Purhonen
Richard Goodwin
Australian Artists Series
Oliver Freeman Editions 1992
RRP $49.95

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
Pacific Arts Association Symposium
Review
Brenda L Croft

Conference review Pacific Arts Association
5th International Symposium
University of South Australia
Aboriginal and Torres Strait and Pacific Islander Visual Arts Week - Tandanya Aboriginal Cultural Centre
Adelaide
12 -17 April 1993

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