Backyard Culture

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Risky business: Engaging adolescents at the Art Gallery of South Australia
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Kylie Neagle

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MCAD Manila: Learning, sharing and conversation
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Joselina Cruz and Paula Acuin

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Museum MACAN: Critical conversations through art
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Aaron Seeto

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Falling in love (Or is the curatorial a methodology?)
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Tara McDowell

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Being an artist and an art teacher
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Henry Ward

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Trying to be at home in the world: New parameters for art education
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Gert Biesta

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Choose your own immersion: Art schools as a site of creative becoming
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Una Rey

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Vanishing into action: Art beyond the contemporary
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Alasdair Foster

Published 01 September 2019

Questions of memory, history and identity in the work of Leandro Salomone.

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Srecko Radman "... In the 'Start' Position"
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Susan Faine

Discussion of the artist's practice as an artist from Croatia in Melbourne since 1971 - how is it affected by linguistic and ethnic differences.

Published June 1991
People's Cultural Action in Australia: The PACIN Experience
Feature
Christian Ramillo

Looks at workshops organised by PACIN - the Philippines-Australia Cultural Interaction Network for Asian and Pacific communities in Sydney.

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
Arriving at a Sense of Position
Feature
Christl Berg

At times, life feels like a collection of unrelated events, a necklace without the string. Christl Berg writes of her experiences of leaving Germany when she was 25 and having lived in three different continents with three different cultures at varied stages in her life.

Published June 1991
Art and Racism: Inter-National Issues
Feature
Alison Carroll

The way that I want to convey that meaning [racism] here is to use a small number of relatively random examples of current art/race = art/power debates from around the world. They give a flavour of the issues. They have obvious relevance to Australia's relationship to the rest of the world, as well as to relationships within Australia.

Published June 1991
Australian Contemporary Design in Jewish Ceremony
Feature
Helen Light

Ritual and ceremony enrich all aspects of Jewish life, its life cycle events and daily life. Jews give constant thanks for God's munificence - for the first fruits of the season, for the food on the daily table, for new clothing donned. Everything is inbued with significance and for all events there are rituals.

Published June 1991
Mirror in Mirror
Feature
Xiaolin Xue

Standing between the mirrors of East and West, my art always gets an inverted image and a double interpretation. This is me.....

Published June 1991
Gunta Parups: A Latvian in Australia
Feature
Andra Kins

Looks at the art practice of Gunta Parups who was and remains a displaced person. The experience of leaving one's homeland as a refugee at the age of thirteen during the war is etched indelibly into her being.

Published June 1991
Images from the Esperanto Suite
Feature
Phillip George

During the process of producing his artworks, George looks for ways of translating different philosophical ideas into marks and images.

Published June 1991
The Studio in Deer Park
Feature
Paul Borg

Paul Borg, an artist of Maltese origin, speaks of his unusual working arrangements.

Published June 1991
A Letter from Berlin
Feature
Hossein Valamanesh

Hossein Valamanesh writes from Berlin hoping that this issue of Artlink will help in the understanding of the multicultural nature of Australian Culture and not assist in any way in making pigeon holes to safely classify the issue.

Published June 1991
Festival of Perth Visual Arts Conference
Review
Maggie Baxter

Exhibition Review
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March 1-3 1991

Published June 1991