Australian Humour in Sculpture

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Reading the entrails: Digesting posthuman entanglement
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Sasha Grbich

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Eating together online: The ambivalent conviviality of ASMR videos
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Francis Russell

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Shared food conversations: Jason Phu and Nagesh Seethiah
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In conversation with Sabrina Baker

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A good dinner party: Food as a medium for social change
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Courtney Coombs

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Eat the problem: MONA's carnivalesque of cuisine
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Ashley Crawford

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Fair Share Fare
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Jen Rae

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Violent dreams of development: A food bowl in the north‑west of Australia?
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Alana Hunt

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Mai Contemporary Kaurna Food
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James Tylor

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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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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.

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Exhibitions for PAA
Review
Ruth Megaw

Written with Vincent Megaw Visual Arts Exhibitions and the Fifth Pacific Arts Association Symposium Great colour photos of works by indigenous Australians.

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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
In Landscapes and Parks: Lake Districts, Yorkshire, Otterlo
Feature
Janice Lally

Looks at three locations Grizedale Forest (UK) Yorkshire Sculpture Park (UK) Rijksmuseum Kroller-Muller of Otterlo (Netherlands) where one can experience sculpture within the landscape.

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
Places for Sculpture and Sculptors: Sydney
Feature
Cecily Briggs

Tony Bond, artistic director of the recent Sydney Biennale suggests that since the staging of the first Biennale in 1973 sculpture and other three dimensional art have been actively promoted in Sydney.

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
Mildura - The Watershed for Sculpture: McCullough and Performance
Feature
Daniel Thomas

The Mildura Sculpture Triennials directed by Tom McCullough seemed the liveliest and most ennjoyable art events held anywhere in Australia...

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.

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Mildura - The Watershed for Sculpture: 1975 Destablising Old Canons
Feature
Noel Sheridan

...It was therefore inevitable that by 1975 Tom McCullough's Mildura Sculpturescape would attract an increasing number of artists doing installation, process, earth and other forms of art that emerged when sculpture, as it were, left the pedestal, moved around the room and went outside.

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

Published June 1993
Women Sculptors - A New Bread
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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