Multicultural, Aboriginal or Just Plain Australian

Cover of Multicultural, Aboriginal or Just Plain Australian
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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

Published 01 June 2020
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Reconnecting the Yaghan community to cultural belongings 90 years on
Feature
Rebecca Carland

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

Published 01 June 2020
UNSW
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Kin‑dling and other radical relationalities
Feature
Emily Johnson and Karyn Recollet

Published 01 June 2020
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Making Inuit art in the moment
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asinnajaq

Published 01 June 2020
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Notes from Kahoʻolawe, Ka Paeʻāina o Hawaiʻi, Moananuiākea
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Drew Kahuaina Broderick and Josh Tengan

Published 01 June 2020
Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair
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Weaving memory, living embodiment
Feature
Freja Carmichael

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Knowledge positions in Aotearoa and Turtle Island art museums
Feature
Léuli Eshraghi

Interview with First Nations curators Kathleen Ash-Milby (Portland Art Museum), Maia Nuku (Metropolitan Museum of Art) and Nigel Borell (Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki).
 

Published 01 June 2020

A great deal of agonising has gone on since the 1988 Bicentenary about the nature of Australian identity and therefore the nature of our distinctive culture.

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Milan Milojevic
Feature
Milan Milojevic

The artist writes about his art practice. Good colour photographs.

Published June 1991
BulaBula: New High Tech Arts Centre, Ramingining
Feature
Steve Bunk

The three storey facility looks incongruous in the ramshackle Aboriginal settlement of Ramingining which crouches along a dirt road in an Arnhem Land eucalypt forest 550 km east of Darwin in the Northern Territory. Photos of people in Ramingining.

Published June 1991
Silvia Stansfield
Feature
Stephanie Radok

The ceramic work of Silvia Stansfield draws on the cultural legacy of South America. Discussion of the work of this artist with good colour photographs.

Published June 1991
Accelerate
Feature
Sam Schoenbaum

"I used to boast about you, my son the painter. You painted trees, now you paint squares to humiliate me." Quote by the artist's father in the early 1970s Melbourne.

Published June 1991
Cultural Diversity and Public Galleries
Feature
Janis Wilton

Written with Joseph Eisenberg. The National Association for the Visual Arts [NAVA] is currently sponsoring a project on 'Multiculturalism and the immigrant artist in Australian visual culture'. Part of the study focuses on the role of public galleries in appreciating, exhibiting, and acquiring the work of Australian artists from non- English speaking backgrounds [NESB].

Published June 1991
Festival of Perth Exhibitions
Review
Melissa Harpley

Ehibition Review: Galerie Dusseldorf
Douglas Chambers and The Glick International Collection
Held February - March 1991

Published June 1991
Sprirituality Aboriginality
Feature
Sylvia Kleinert

An exhibition of contemporary Aboriginal art 'Aboriginal Art and Spirituality' opened at the High Court of Australia in 1991. The exhibition to tour after its opening in Canberra.....All of the works in the exhibition speak quite overtly about the highly problematic intervention of the missions, the politics of racism and the way in which Aboriginal spirituality will always remain linked to the land.

Published June 1991
Julia Ciccarone
Artist Profile
Julia Ciccarone

The artist writes about her art practice, in particular her preoccupation with the Australian landscape and how people perceive it. Two images are included: 'Secret Self' and 'Blanket' both from 1990.

Published June 1991
Concept of Country
Feature
Fiona Foley

Looks at the art practice of Fiona Foley (Thoorgine Country), Terry Ganadilla (Mewenbi Country) and Dale Yowingbala (Gamerdi Country), three aboriginal artists who worked together on an unusual project in Maningrida during 1991.

Published June 1991
New Artist's Group: Dihedron
Feature
Anthony Gall

The tendency to pigeon hole 'ethnic' art as a second class art practised by minority groups is common in Australia too... Dihedron is a group of artists and supporters operating in Brisbane who share the common goal of helping artists in socio-cultural isolation.

Published June 1991
Multicultural Arts: Development and Change in Brisbane
Feature
Christopher Bowen

It is fair to say that the development of multicultural arts and the recognition of cultural diversity in Queensland is still in its early stages. Photos (6) of an event at the Cafe Folkloric.

Published June 1991
Failsafe Opera
Review
Mary-Anne Haddad

Exhibition Review: Performance Installation by Andrew Petrusevics and Chris Gaston
Adelaide Univsersity Union Art Gallery
7 - 21 March 1991

Published June 1991
 
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