First Australian Jewellery Biennial

"In modern architecture we find difficulty in managing the relation between the physical presence of a building and its intimations of the mental and spiritual. Our architectural objects rarely serve as objects of intermediation between the ordinary, the physical and the present on the one hand, and the mystical, the spiritual and the abstract on the other...."

Published December 1991

The Art of Living

Feature

Paul Downton

The place Ecopolis 2, the world's first ecocity. The time -- mid-afternoon 3rd November 2007.

Published December 1991

Juan Davila

Review

Paul Greenaway

Exhibition review Juan Davila
Contemporary Art Centre
Adelaide South Australia
9 August - 8 September 1991

Published December 1991

Arts to Ashes

Feature

Teresa Jordan

In Tasmania particularly it can be difficult to be vocal about political issues. Here is a chance to be uncompromising, a chance to take risks, a chance to raise community cultural awarenes. And who says art needs to be permanent? Heres a chance to make something and then release it, to allow visual art to metamorphose into performance art. Intrigued? then follow up the article!

Published December 1991

Artists and the Mt Leuseur Campaign

Feature

Ric McCracken

Artist's involvement in the Mt Lesueur Campaign -- 200 km north of Perth, Western Australia.

Published December 1991

Aspects of Earth Building in New Zealand

Feature

Graeme North

New Zealand is not only snake less and nuclear free but also has a tradition of earth buildings. In pre European times, Maori utilised the ground's insulating properties by partially sinking thatched roofed houses into the ground.

Published December 1991

Getting our Shit Together

Feature

Col James

There is a video which shows the noted Viennese artist Hundertwasser sitting on a bucket in his public home unit in Vienna City, uttering this exhortation. He then takes the bucket upstairs to a roof garden of sorts and dumps the contents into a compost bin.

Published December 1991

Look See. Gnarogin Park

Feature

Ross Donaldson

The headbutting syndrome which is normally associated with the oppositional mental locations of the engineering versus the environmental are here reconciled in the combined communities' new park. It should become their most treasured recreational amenity. Located two hours south of Perth, Western Australia.

Published December 1991

Possessed

Review

Stephanie Radok

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

Solar Houses: an Introduction

Feature

Susan Coldicutt

Faced with these complexities, it is hardly surprising that many designers find the proto-type solar house to be a preferable starting point.

Published December 1991

Maleness

Review

Richard Grayson

Exhibition review Asunder: Works by Rick Martin and David Kerr Artspace Festival Centre
Adelaide South Australia
September - October 1991

Published December 1991

Women's Ideal Environments

Feature

Llewellyn Johns

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