Sit Up! and Nature as Object

Sit Up!: 100 Masterpieces from the Vitra Design Museum Collection
Nature as Object: Craft and Design from Japan, Finland and Australia
Art Gallery of Western Australia
2 July - 6 September 1998

Published December 1998

Zhong Chen: Adelaide - London - Adelaide

Zhong Chen as a relatively recent graduate of the SA School of Art won a Samstag Scholarship to travel to the Chelsea College of Art in late 1997.

Published December 1998

The Wild(e) Colonial Boy

Leigh Bowery
edited Robert Violette
published Editions Violette/distributed by Thames and Hudson
$89.00 238 pp colour and b&w illustrations

Published December 1998

Dorothy Erickson: Jetset Jeweller

The strength of the Australian jewellery practice may be attributed to the jewellery departments in Australian universities and art schools as well as to the influence and impact of leading jewellery artists who have arrived from other countries to live, teach or practice in Australia. Looks at the work of Dorothy Erikson.

Published December 1998

Parachuting Postponed: Birmingham

Claire Doherty is a curator at the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, England's second city. The 'Art into Action' program supports artists working in process based or research based ways over extended periods of time in direct communication with groups and individuals in Birmingham. The exploration of 'home' suggested itself as a universal metaphor as the 'sacred place' from which all else could be mapped.

Published December 1998

Export What! Where!

Looks at the issues facing the export of the Australian visual art product overseas.

Published December 1998

Residencies in Asia

Examines Asialink's artist in residency program. Complete with a list of Visual Arts/Crafts Residency destinations.

Published December 1998

Past Tense/Future Perfect

Craftwest Gallery, Perth and Moores Building, Fremantle
4 - 26 July 1998
Centre for Contemporary Craft, Customs House, Sydney
12 September - 11 October 1998

Published December 1998

Steven Holland: Game Over

Steven Holland was awarded a Samstag scholarship in 1997 which allowed him to enrol in Natural History Illustration and Sculpture at the Royal College of Art in London and to travel to Europe.

Published December 1998

The Culture of Exporting Art-cargo

How does Australia export its visual culture overseas? What have been the positive achievements and the low points of this process? Looks at the role of the Australia Council and the Visual Arts/Crafts Board.

Published December 1998

Artrave

Published December 1998

Anne Pincus in Munich

'Ask the dust' the exhibition of Anne Pincus at Access Gallery in Sydney explores the contrast between the light and sand and dust of Australia and Israel and the darkness of Europe.

Published December 1998