Creating Livable Places

Affecting one's city, state or country requires wit, wisdom opportunity and a sense of fun. Robert McNulty, President of the extraordinarily successful Washington based 'Partners for Livable Places' gives a thumb-nail sketch of the last 15 years of the organisation and some of the tools they have used as operational forces for action.

Published December 1991

Review of the Year

Exhibition review Reflections on a year of contemporary art in Tasmania.

Published December 1991

The Re-humanising of Water

Ecologically sustainable development is a stated aim of our national and state governments. Unless we can stimulate a higher and more sustained level of discussion on what this means, our progressis likely to remain fitful and unfocussed. Hopefully this article will stimulate the debate!

Published December 1991

Supporting Remote Places

Published December 1991

Gilding the Lillipilli

Tree decorating was revived in Melbourne as part of the larger Treeproject. Looks at some of the issues faced with mounting such an event.

Published December 1991

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.

Published December 1991

Possessed

Exhibition review Possessed: Virginia Barratt, Simryn Gill, Richard Grayson, Michele Luke, Julienne Pierce, Steve Wigg
Bullring Jam Factory
South Australia
6 October - 3 November 1991

Published December 1991

Architecture and Lyndall Milani's Installations

Lyndall Milani uses sculptural installations to question the place of architecture in the landscape and within human life.

Published December 1991

Memories of Water

The Sandgate Environmental Sculpture has involved the local community in both designing and creating the sculpture.

Published December 1991

Places for Souls to Play

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

Published December 1991

First Australian Jewellery Biennial

Exhibition review First Australian Jewellery Biennial
Jam Factory Craft and Design Centre
Adelaide South Australia
October 1991

Published December 1991

Mudflats: A Fertile Breeding Ground for Artists

Mudflat arts believes that the landscape is not there to be painted so much as to be protected. The role has changed from one of passive painter to active member of the community.

Published December 1991