Setting an Agenda for the Arts in Tasmania

Multicultural Artworker's Committee [MAC] aims to provide all citizens with equal opportunity to access and promote art in its various forms.

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

Heritage Revealed

Feature

George Boeck

The Australian National Gallery's library has just completed a project which documented ethnic and immigrant objects in about 750 photographs. The bulk of these photographs show textile and ceramic craft brought with immigrants to Australia or made in Australia following traditional methods and designs. Nearly 20 ethnic groups from Europe, the Middle East and Asia are represented. Photos of textiles included.

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

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

Desultory Remarks from a NESB Museologist

Feature

Amareswar Galla

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

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

Satellite Dreaming

Feature

Tony Dowmunt

Making a TV documentary about indigenous people's television in Australia. Photographs on location at Ernabella in the Pitjantjatjara lands of far north west South Australia.

Published June 1991

National Multicultural Arts Network

Feature

Eugenia Hill

The Network links NESB, ethnic and arts organisations, sets up cross cultural and other training programs for artists, arts organisations and the media and lobbies governments and other funding bodies to reassess their policies and practices.

Published June 1991