Photosynthesis: Two approaches

The photograph as a source and subject for photographic practice iteself is characteristic of the work of a great many artists today. Tracey Moffatt and Margaret Dawson's works are considered. Each draws on photographs which precede their own, but work in markedly different ways.

Published March 1999

Parallax Error

Working within the context of the Percy Grainger (1882-1961) collection, artists Louise Weaver and Carolyn Eskdale created an installationwithin the architecture and material culture of the building. In 1998 composer and sound artist Ros Bandt created an installation for the Museum's courtyard.

Published March 1999

Archives After the Seventies and After

Brown and Green are well known for their meticulously produced paintings, often involving the layering and juxtaposition of competing forms and histories. They continue to paint though photography has now assumed a major position in their practice. These photographs function as archives without narrative: scrambled mythology.

Published March 1999

Wunderkammern: Actual and Virtual

The notion of the Wunderkammern is discussed in the work of Shiralee Saul (an on-line hypertextual essay for the World Wide Web WWW) and Luke Roberts ( a series of exhibitions from 1990 onwards).

Published March 1999

The Fleurieu Biennale 1998

McLaren Vale
Fleurieu Peninsula
6 - 29 November 1998

Published March 1999

Fabricating Archives: Six New Zealand Artists confuse the system

In New Zealand, conceptual and post conceptual artists from the 1970s to the present have incorporated various references to the archive; its contents, classificatory systems and its institutional adjuncts, the library, the art gallery and the museum.

Published March 1999

Vault: A Collaborative Installation Cluster

Ian North and Helen Fuller
12 November - 6 December 1998
Experimental Art Foundation

Published March 1999

Artrave

Published March 1999

Underbelly

November 22 to December 20
Cosmopolitan Cinema and Shopping Arcade

Published March 1999

The TMAG Commissions 1998

Here at the end of the twentieth century, the world is having to come to terms with the socio-political, economic and environmental legacies of nineteenth century imperialism. Contemporary art participates in this post colonial discourse: issues of ancestry and inheritance, relations between indigenous and settler peoples, national and imperial mythology, mapping and borders, migration and language, ecology and exploitation - these are increasingly familiar themes.

Published March 1999

Four Shoes Many Signs

Four artist's projects initiated by the National Gallery of Victoria engage contemporary art practices and the role of the museum and public galleries as mediators between the collections and the viewers. Impacts on policies regarding the moral rights of artists.

Published March 1999

Juliet Stone Paintings and Pastels

Juliet Stone paintings and pastels
Gomboc Gallery
Perth
1-22 November 1998

Published March 1999