Backyard Culture

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Between worlds: Belinda Mason and Blur Projects
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Alasdair Foster

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Body, remember: Wrap me in a sister cloak
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Ali Gumillya Baker

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Regimes of care: Concerning the afterlife of artists
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Robert Cook

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Guildhouse
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The idea of redemption: Artmaking in prison
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Alasdair Foster

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On thin ice: Creating a life beyond addiction
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Ginger Gorman

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Flesh after fifty: Changing images of older women in art
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Jacqueline Millner

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How can I live in your world? Empathic strategies in contemporary Asian art
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Reuben Keehan

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Shahidul Alam: You're blocking the sun
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Kelly Hussey-Smith

Published 01 September 2020

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

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Multicultural Arts: Development and Change in Brisbane
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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
Artists of Malaysian Origin in Melbourne
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Chok-Dee Teng

Survey of five Malaysian artists living and working in Melbourne Australia. Great colour photos of their works.

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
Silvia Stansfield
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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
Performing in Tongues
Feature
Paul Carter

...Underlying this linguistic fertility is a migrant intuition of the relativity of language, of the lightness and mutability of its phonology, inflections and syntax. Less portentously there is no migrant to this country who has not experienced those punning co-incidences, echoic repetitions, mutual misunderstandings and mishearings which are the basis of my scripts. It may be no accident that in 1992 Australian voices evoke first contact with the New World.

Published June 1991
List of Resource Material for the Arts in Multicultural Australia
Feature
Helen Andreoni

A great starting point for more research in this area. List prepared by Dr Helen Andreoni, of the School of Aboriginal and Multicultural Studies, University of New England.

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
Desultory Remarks from a NESB Museologist
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Amareswar Galla

It is evident we are trying to redress an imbalance in the cultural representation of our heritage and arts.

Published June 1991
Setting an Agenda for the Arts in Tasmania
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Sandi Young

Review: State Arts Conference
Tasmanian Arts Industry Council
April 1991
Photographs of delegates to the conference included.

Published June 1991
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
Visions in the South Pacific: The Immigrant Artist: A Twice Told Tale
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Elizabeth Gertsakis

Colonial Ghettoes: the possibilities and limitations of new identity as vision.

Published June 1991
The Odyssey of Salvatore Zofrea
Feature
Joseph Eisenberg

Zofrea wrote "I want my work to sing forever."

Published June 1991
 
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