Festival of Perth Exhibitions

Cover of Festival of Perth Exhibitions
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Kulinmaya! Keep Listening Everybody!

Mumu Mike Williams

Review
Kieran Finnane

Published 01 December 2019
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OzAsia 2019

Adelaide Festival Centre and other venues

Review
Anna O'Loughlin

Published 29 November 2019
1.126
Tarnanthi Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art

Art Gallery of South Australia and other venues

Review
Darren Jorgensen

Published 28 November 2019
Artlink Promo
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Weaving the Way

University of Queensland Art Museum

Review
Kay Lawrence

Published 11 October 2019
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Julie Gough: Tense Past

Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery

Review
Craig Judd

Published 11 October 2019
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Desert Mob 2019

Araluen Arts Centre

Review
Kieran Finnane

Published 07 October 2019
Artlink Subs Promo
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Louise Haselton: like cures like

Samstag Museum of Art

Review
Elle Freak

Published 27 September 2019
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Agatha Gothe-Snape: Trying to find comfort in an uncomfortable chair

Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts

Review
Alana Hunt

Published 15 September 2019

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

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Community Arts in Fairfield and Cabramatta
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Meg Simpson

The Fairfield Community Arts Network is a community - based organisation which aims to develop cultural awareness in Fairfield with particular emphasis on the multicultural nature of the area.

Published June 1991
Metaphors of Multiculturalism
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Palimpsest...Vision of a multicultural Australia. An exhibition co-ordinated by the Multicultural Arts Trust of South Australia, December 1990 Chesser Gallery Adelaide. Great colour photos.

Published June 1991
Film Makers Davor Dirlic and Laszlo Dudas
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Fortunately the artists are capable of overturning all the newly acceptable conceits about them, and they might deny most of the assumptions that multicultural academics make about them, whilst still giving a new window on our world, as indeed, all good art from anywhere will.

Published June 1991
Crossing Cultures in Dance
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Stephanie Britton

Looks at the dance practice of the Bharatam Dance Company from Melbourne and at that stage in its 5th year of operation. Photos of the dancers in production included.

Published June 1991
Interview with James Mollison
Feature
Meredith Smith

The Office of Multicultural Affairs talks for Artlink with James Mollison, Director of the National Gallery of Victoria 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
Concept of Country
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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
A Very Personal View
Feature
Myk Mykyta

A very personal view. And finally there is a need for us to allow art and artists to develop from their own roots, regardless of their country or culture of origin.

Published June 1991
How Clay Speaks for Neville Assad
Feature
Kevin Murray

The alphabet was invented, so they say, in Lebanon. To some Lebanese, their country represents an un-broken link with the birth of human history. Non-Aboriginal Australians, by contrast, share stories of interrupted family ties, of exile and forgetting. How then do these Lebanese relate to life in Australia?

Published June 1991
Archetypal Strategies
Review
Susan Sheridan

Exhibition Review: Josie Starrs, Margaret Worth, Fay Poole and Barbara Zerbini
Experimental Art Foundation
Adelaide South Australia
June 1990 and touring to regional galleries.

Published June 1991
Alike/Unalike: Cultural Diversity in Australian Independent Film
Feature
Bill Mousoulis

Cultural diversity is crucial. Film makers may be unlike (in terms of cultural background) but they are also alike (in terms of their value.) In the area of independent film, there are a number of films which deal with multicultural themes and/or give non Anglo film-makers the opportunity to express themselves. One hopes that mainstream film can take up on this lead, because, from all apparent evidence, it remains sorely imbalanced.

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.

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