Women's Ideal Environments

It seems clear enough that women feel loss and the lack at the heart of the consumer society. But the creation of other riches, even in imagination, is hard to achieve....We need nevertheless to imagine other worlds, other ways - all of us- in order to sustain hope and inform desire.

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Reading the Land

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Gareth Sansom

Exhibition review Gareth Sansom 1991 Indian Seventh Trienniale exhibition University of South Australia Art Museum 12 September - 19 October 1991

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Look See. Gnarogin Park

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Aspects of Earth Building in New Zealand

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Graeme North

Meadows Under the Sea

The Seagrass Project has been cited as a model community arts project. Located in Hastings Victoria, the project has been documented on video and shown on television in Austria and Canada and could potentially achieve wide international exposure.

Ian Cuming

Prospect: Building on its Imagination

In these days of environmental awareness it is pleasing to see a growing awareness of the need to improve urban environments. This is not to say that we should, yet again, be looking after the concerns of people over and above the needs of the natural environment.

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Wildflowers in Art

Exhibition review Wildflowers in Art Art Gallery of Western Australia October 1991

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Let There be Light and Power

Berwyn Lewis talks to solar physicist Bruce Robins. Imagine 6 billion people simultaneously turning on lights and electrical appliances. This apocalyptic drain on power would plunge us into an eternal blackout with devastating effects on the environement.

Berwyn Lewis

Places for Souls to Play

Looks at the work of Gabriel Poole with statements by Gabriel Poole.

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Mudflats: A Fertile Breeding Ground for Artists

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Art, Architecture and the Environment

This issue of Artlink tries to flag some of the issues for designers in Australia today, and to document just some of the changes which are happening.

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